Mechanical Advantage 6328, Littleton’s rookie FIRST Robotics Competition team, opened the 2017 competition season by attending the kickoff event on Jan. 7 at Southern New Hampshire University.
The event included the release of the animation describing this year’s game STEAMWORKS (available for viewing at littletonrobotics.org), and allowed the team to walk around a demonstration playing field to investigate what they’ll be using in competitions.

“Physics says this isn’t going to happen.”
The group of students huddled around a test robot they built during the summer, a square measuring roughly three feet by three feet with rows of wheels on two of the sides.
They looked in at the complex network of wires and circuitry and then up at Zac Temple, 21, one of their mentors. Their attempt to use the test robot’s wheels to launch a ball had not gone quite as planned.
“Well, we failed,” Temple said.
“Let’s eat!” the group’s other mentor, 21-year-old Deanna Clark, chimed in almost immediately.