Season 2027
BIOCORE
Pre-season is underway. Students are training, prototyping and running design reviews ahead of the January kickoff, when FIRST reveals the new game and the eight-week build clock starts.
- Pre-season training for the newest group of students
- Design reviews run by students, with mentors as coaches
- Weekly build blogs published through the season
How a season runs
One year, five phases
- Autumn
Pre-season
New students train in design, build, electrical, code and fabrication. Returning leads prototype mechanisms and rebuild the shop.
- January
Kickoff
FIRST reveals the game. The whole team reads the manual, scores the strategy, and picks what the robot has to be good at.
- Eight weeks
Build season
Design reviews, CAD, fabrication, wiring and code, all at once. Sixteen-plus hours a week per student, and a weekly blog documenting it.
- Feb to April
Competition
District events and regionals, then the district championship if we qualify. 3 vs 3, all weekend.
- Spring onward
Off-season
Fix what broke, run off-season events like Sunset Showdown, and start teaching the next group.
Last season
2026 REBUILT — Orion
Orion picked balls off the floor and shot them accurately into a target. Antares competed at the Silicon Valley and East Bay district events and reached deep into the playoffs at both.
- Won the Imagery Award and the Autonomous Award in district play
- Qualified for the Northern California District Championship and played into the playoffs there
- An unreliable intake at the District Championship sent the team back to the drawing board
- The redesigned intake carried the team to semifinals at Sunset Showdown
Follow along
Come and watch a competition
Bay Area events are free to attend and run all weekend. Email the team and we will tell you where we will be and where to find our pit.