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TechBot competition is a success!

Student drills during competitionEach school year, students in Moraine Park’s Mechanical Design, Process Engineering Technology, and Electromechanical Technology programs take a course together and work in teams to complete a large-scale project.  This year’s projects were to manufacture a pen in Moraine Park’s Automated Workcell, and to build a robot for the TechBot competition.

Machine manufacturing pen

Students designed and manufactured a pen using automated processes and 3D-printed tooling, with the majority of the manufacturing and assembly being done with automation.  There were also eight TechBot teams, building robots within a 15 lb weight limit designed to destroy each other in an 8’ x 12’ cage.  Another team designed bike racks to be built and used in the West Bend area.

For more information on these programs, as well as others, go to morainepark.edu/programs/.

Student working together to build a techbot. Tech machine building a pen.

May 28, 2018by Kristina Haensgen
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All that and a bot of Chips. The champ is crowned!

Students holding remote controls at Techbots Championship Match 2016

On Wednesday, May 11th, the Integrated Manufacturing Students at Moraine Park Technical College held the championship match of their Techbots Competition.  In the championship match, Flippin Awesome proved to be nearly indestructible against the dangerous Chips Miller.

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May 17, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
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TECHBOTS UPDATE: Champions will collide!

Student operating techbot with remove control

Moraine Park’s Integrated Manufacturing Classes are required of students in the Mechanical Design, Process Engineering Technology, and Mechatronics programs.  Students in these programs take the course together and work in cross-functional teams to complete a project.  This year’s project was a Techbot competition.  Four teams in the evening class and four teams in the day class built remote-controlled robots to compete against each other by battling in an 8ft x 12ft cage.  Each team designed and built their Techbot from scratch.  Limitations included a $250 budget and a 15-pound weight limit.

Preliminary rounds were on Wednesday, May 4 for the evening class, and Friday, May 6 for the morning class.

Champions of both classes were crowned, and now the final battle for supremacy between these two Techbot champions will take place this Wednesday night (May 11) for ultimate bragging rights.

So which bots have taken down all other challengers so far?

Drum roll please  … Continue reading

May 9, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
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Battle of the Techbots (PREVIEW Pt. 4 of 4): Chips Miller vs. The Breakfast Club

Techbots sign

A battle for Techbot supremacy is coming soon to the classrooms of Moraine Park. Here’s a preview of one of the first-round match-ups.  Check out the bios and watch the videos below, and let us know who you think will win in the comments section!  Continue reading

May 4, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
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Battle of the Techbots (PREVIEW Pt. 3 of 4): Man Bear Pig vs. Problem Child

Techbots sign

A battle for Techbot supremacy is coming soon to the classrooms of Moraine Park. Here’s a preview of one of the first-round match-ups.  Check out the bios and watch the videos below, and let us know who you think will win in the comments section!  Continue reading

May 3, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
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Battle of the Techbots (PREVIEW Pt. 2 of 4): BeeF KaM vs. Flipping Awesome

Techbots sign

A battle for Techbot supremacy is coming soon to the classrooms of Moraine Park. Here’s a preview of one of the first-round match-ups.  Check out the bios and watch the videos below, and let us know who you think will win in the comments section!  Continue reading

May 2, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
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Battle of the Techbots (PREVIEW Pt. 1 of 4): Penetrator vs. Magic Smoke

Techbots sign

A battle for Techbot supremacy is coming soon to the classrooms of Moraine Park. Here’s a preview of one of the first-round match-ups.  Check out the bios and watch the videos below, and let us know who you think will win in the comments section!  Continue reading

April 29, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff

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