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FNC District Wake County Event

FIRST North Carolina Wake County District Event: A Recap We had a lot of fun at this weekend's district event in Wake Forest at Heritage High School. We were the number 1 alliance captain and we had TerrorBytes and TMSA MechaTigers on our alliance. We pulled off a...

2026 Season Week 7: Last Week Before Competition!

Week 7 of REBUILT: Last Week Before Competition! This week, we focused on final tuning of our robot and little mechanical changes here and there to ensure our robot was functioning properly. We rigorously tested our on-the-fly shooting system to ensure it was working...

2026 Season Week 6

Week 6 of REBUILT! This week was heavily focused on improving our shooter, specifically tuning it to make it more reliable and consistent. Additionally, we made progress on our expandable hopper, wiring, and autonomous, with some vision and pose tracking struggles. We...

2026 Season Week 5

Week 5 of REBUILT! This week, we continued programming and testing. We completely overhauled the wiring of our robot to make it neater and more organized. In addition, we significantly changed the design of several subsystems. We added new rollers to the shooters and...

2026 Season Week 4

Week 4 of REBUILT!  We are still busy designing, building, thinking, trying, programming. How are we going to drive, collect, shoot, climb!  FUN!! We re-built, again, the mechanism for moving the balls from the box to the shooter. The chassis is done, collector...

2026 Season Week 3

Week 3 of REBUILT!  We are still busy designing, building, thinking, trying, programming. How are we going to drive, collect, shoot, climb!  FUN!! We re-built, again, the mechanism for moving the balls from the box to the shooter. The chassis is done, collector...

2026 Season Week 2

Week 2 of REBUILT!  We are still busy designing, building, thinking, trying, programming. How are we going to drive, collect, shoot, climb!  FUN!! We re-built the mechanism for moving the balls from the box to the shooter. The chassis is almost done, and we are trying...

2026 Season Week 1

Week 1 of the FRC 2026 Season REBUILT!  We are busy designing, building, thinking, trying, programming. How are we going to drive, collect, shoot, climb!  FUN!! We built the mechanism for moving the balls from the box to the shooter.  

2026 Team Applications Open!

  This year was one of the Hitchhikers' most successful seasons in many years. After earning a blue banner at the Wake County district event, becoming finalists in Pitt County, winning ANOTHER blue banner at UNC Pembroke, and making it to states, we couldn't be...

FNC District Wake County Event

WOW! What a weekend!! We ended up ranked 6th at the Wake County District Event after the qualification rounds. We competed in the playoffs as the Captain of Alliance 4. We chose Team 9032 RoboWhales and Team 5190 Falcon Fury to join our Alliance. After many tight and...

Build Season Update: Week 2

by | Jan 24, 2012

Would you look at that! It’s already the start of the third week of this season of FIRST competition. That means most teams are wrapping up their designs and have begun prototyping their various creative ideas. The Hitchhikers are no exception. The design...

It Begins!

by | Jan 21, 2012

The 2012 season is now in progress! The Hitchhikers spent January 7th in Raleigh at kickoff brainstorming with other teams about this year’s challenge, Rebound Rumble. This year’s game is called Rebound Rumble, and is based on basketball. The robots can score in hoops...

Thumbs Up for SCRIW

by | Oct 10, 2011

On October 29th, the Hitchhikers took part in the SCRIW (South Carolina Robotics Invitational and Workshops). This is an off-season competition held in Columbia, South Carolina. Off-season events are both important networking opportunities and an opportunity to train...

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fun!

by | Apr 10, 2011

Well, the North Carolina Regional at Dorton Arena ended today. We placed twenty-sixth as a team out of the fifty-two in attendance. Many other teams fared very well, especially several of the rookie teams that participated. Team PyroTech placed seventh with...

The Regional at the End of the Universe

by | Apr 6, 2011

T-9 hours and counting! Tomorrow is the first day of the North Carolina FRC Regional at Dorton Arena in Raleigh. Uncrating begins at 7:45am and the pits open to everyone else at 8:30. We’ll be there bright and early to make final changes to our robot and get ready for...

Just Two Weeks Left!

by | Mar 26, 2011

Though build season ended over four weeks ago, the team has still been hard at work perfecting our programming, strategies and minibot. Despite our efforts, there’s still a lot of work to be done. We’ve encountered countless problems with our minibot, though we are...

Farewell, Marvin!

by | Feb 26, 2011

Finally! We have completed Marvin and it has been shipped off to sleep until competition in April. This entire build season was a blast. Everyone worked hard to create an incredible robot and had fun in the process. Though, not everything was all fun and games. There...

New Website Goes Live!

by | Feb 12, 2011

At 1:05 am on February 12, 2011, the Hitchhikers website left beta and was publicly released. Welcome to the new site! This layout was designed for ease of navigation, but also to look cool. Use the navigation bar below the site logo to easily move around the site....

The Season Begins

by | Jan 1, 2011

Here we go; the 2011 build season has begun! I hope everyone enjoys working together to create wonderful and fantastic robots. We will all learn new things this year, create new friendships, and most of all have fun. Enjoy Logomotion!