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2023
2023
After 2022, almost 70% of the team graduated, leaving The Pioneers with just 6 students. After a rigorous recruiting season, the team grew to 28 students and began preparing for competition. This year, 7525 took a more analytical approach to robot development and focused on building a simple, effective machine. At their first competition at the Arkansas Regional in Searcy, Arkansas, The Pioneers were rewarded for that decision by captaining the 3rd seeded alliance, advancing to the semifinals, and winning the Judge's Award. At the Smoky Mountain Regional, The Pioneers faced some mechanical failures but were selected as the first pick of the 7th-seeded alliance and advanced to semifinals.
2022
2022
With competitions beginning again after the COVID-19 pandemic, The Pioneers were ready to begin competing. 2022 was a rebuilding year, as many of the students were brand new to FRC. The team competed at the inaugural Electric City Regional in Anderson, South Carolina, making it to the semifinals. A few weeks later, The Pioneers made a trip to Knoxville, Tennessee to compete in the Smoky Mountain Regional. At Smoky Mountain, the team made it to the quarterfinals and our founding mentor Benjamin Nadolsky was awarded the Woodie Flowers Award.
2021
2021
Though the 2021 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Pioneers did what they could to help the team. The team met both virtually and safely in person to raise money, host team-building events, and remote volunteering. The team also worked on recruiting students from other schools in the city in an effort to broaden the scope of opportunities that The Pioneers provides.
2020
2020
After such a successful rookie year, the team members were dedicated to helping The Pioneers thrive. Because of the limited FIRST community in Nashville, we saw it as an opportunity to expand our reach to schools across the city. Our first milestone in achieving this goal was adding Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School to our team and establishing an FTC team. Adding MLK to the team has enriched the program by allowing RHS students to interact with students of another high school and also giving the STEM-interested students of MLK another way to express their interest. Some of the team’s most dedicated members have come from this cooperation between RHS and MLK. Unfortunately, the 2021 season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019
2019
The Pioneers started their rookie year in the fall of 2018 at RePublic High School in Nashville, TN, consisting of 3 mentors and 10 students. In the beginning, we faced a variety of challenges. Because RePublic High School is a Title I school, we had an extremely low starting capital. The students did not have connections to sponsors and the school did not have a computer lab for the students to use for programming and design. FIRST was also a new concept for not only the students, but to Nashville as a whole. With the FIRST community so small, the school administration and sponsors were hesitant to support an expensive project, and the students had little to no prior experience with robotics. Despite the obstacles our team faced, we ended up having an extremely successful competition season. We attended two regional competitions, placing 43rd out of 55 in Huntsville, Alabama and then placing 10th out of 51 in Knoxville, Tennessee where we won the Highest Seeded Rookie award and the Rookie All-Star award which gave us an invitation to the World Championship in Houston, Texas where we placed 32nd in our division.
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