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Apologies for the lack of updates – the end of build season and the rigorous competition schedule have been intense! The TerrorBytes won the state championship and are now in Houston, Texas participating in the FIRST World Championship!! Also, the…
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Wow, we’re done with Week 4 already! If we had to summarize our last week in one exclamatory sentence it would be: Green paint everywhere! That usually means we’ve been working hard. Fabrication has been working first and foremost on…
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As you probably guessed, progress on the TerrorBytes robotics team continued this week. We’re getting much closer to completing our robot, and we continue to prepare for our first competition of the 2017 season, in Winterville NC, from March 3rd-5th….
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Progress has continued on the TerrorBytes during Week 2 of the build season. Overall, we’re moving forward fairly quickly with building our robot, with some minor delays here and there. Morale here is high while we move into the dregs…
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Written by Co-Captains Kaiz Akhtar and Julian Berla All of us at the TerrorBytes are excited about the new FIRST Robotics Competition game, STEAMworks! STEAMworks is a steampunk-themed game based on getting wiffle balls into a goal to generate “steam…
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We will be competing at this year’s THOR competition, an offseason FRC event for North Carolina. The competition will be the same as the one in the spring, Recycle Rush. We’ve been revamping our 2015 season robot, Jack the Gripper,…
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Build Season The Terrorbytes have been hard at work this season building our robot for this year’s FRC game, Recycle Rush! So far, we’ve constructed the drive train, and we’re almost done with our elevator system. We feel very confident…
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Our mentor, Bob Nadeau, has been featured in the triangle’s 919 Magazine, with the TerrorBytes being a major element. Bob has been with us for three years, and a FIRST mentor for 15 years. You can find the article at…
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As incentive for The TerrorBytes’ Otis Spunkmeyer fundraiser all students who sold 10 or more items got to participate in “Project Silly String”.  When the fundraiser was finished head mentor Tyler ended up being the recipient of the contents of…
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A few weeks ago, our team captain, Myles, found a great team work game for everyone to play at our meeting. The rules were simple, use lego pieces and design a machine to move the stone blocks to build the…
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