This past weekend, CORE 2062 competed at Lakeland University’s FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) District event in Plymouth, WI. This event was the first district event in Wisconsin, and it was an honor to compete there last weekend.

During the competition, our team placed 4th out of 33 teams during qualification matches and held the first place seed for over an hour. CORE had a win streak of 7 matches, followed by a loss streak of 3 matches, and ended qualifications with another 2 match win streak.

In the playoffs, we captained the third seed alliance, joined by team 3791, Hex Hounds, and team 6381, Red Raider Robotics. During playoffs, we had 3 wins and 2 losses, leading us to be ranked as the third place alliance.

Additionally, CORE 2062 received the Excellence in Engineering award. This award is given to a team with exceptional integration of modules and robot design organization. 

We are officially 4 weeks into the build season. Our team started manufacturing and assembling the launcher for our robot. After some testing, we are working on a spindexer mechanism for indexing the fuel. Intake finalized the needed dimensions and are getting close to the final version. Scouting is finishing up the new scouting engine and working on the safety manual. Programming fixed issues with April Tag code, making the turning smoother. They have also been working on the robot system ID. Outreach submitted our Woodie Flowers essay and are working on our Impact Essay and Executive Summaries.

This past Sat­ur­day, FIRST re­vealed the challenge for the 2026 FRC game, REBUILT. CORE spent the first half of the day at Mukwonago High school attending workshops. After the game release, we spent time collaborating with other FRC teams and came back with mul­ti­ple ideas on how to suc­ceed in this year’s game. In the early afternoon, we returned to South High School and went over safety presentations and strategized plans for the robot game. We look for­ward to overcoming the chal­lenges of the game!

It’s been 5 months since our FIRST competition season ended, and we have been  busy over the summer doing  outreaches at the Waukesha County Fair, Monday Night Movie of Wild Robot, and more.  We also had fun – and did well – in the 2 offseason competition events we attended.

On Tuesday, September 9th, at 6pm, we will be hosting our CORE  Fall Interest Night.  The event will be held in Room 108 at Waukesha South High School (enter through outside Door #5, near the corner of Tenny and Roberta Ave,).  All high school stu­dents in the Wauke­sha school dis­trict are invited  to learn more about our team – CORE (Community of Robotics Engineers) – and the organization of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).  There will be hands-on activities as you learn about the different subteams of CORE. 

Please sign up at  Fall Interest Night Sign Up to help us plan.

We look forward to meeting you on Sept 9th!