The Leviathans is a community based team out of the Pablo Center in Eau Claire, WI. We consist of 20 students from Eau Claire and the surrounding areas, who design, build, and program a robot with which they compete against other teams from around the world. 

The FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) competitions are large-scale events with a new challenge annually. The competitions also include student presentations. Community outreach is a way for teams to share their passion for engineering and build interest in STEM in younger students in the community. Teams operate under a signature set of FIRST® Core Values to conduct research, fundraise, design, build, and showcase their achievements during annual challenges. 

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Students learn engineering, computer-aided design (CAD), programming, strategy tactics, mechanical, leadership, teamwork, time management, and communication skills, but also personal skills and lifetime relationships. 

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Our team offers multiple different subteams for students with different interests. We have 4 different subteams that our students can choose from:

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Business

• Impact: ​These students use a spreadsheet to track all of our outreach events and use that information to complete the Impact Award. These students also take point on putting together all materials for the Impact Award presentation and do the actual presenting at competitions. 

• Media: Our media students take pictures and videos during our meetings and create all of the graphics and captions that we post on social media. They're brainstorming what content we post and how we can build a bigger community through our social media accounts. They are also our team media at competition.

 

Mechanical

• CAD: These students designs our robot using Onshape. Each student will be assigned a mechanism or part of the robot to design. Our CAD students will also make the cut path files for any parts that we need to cut out. 

• Fabrication: Once the game  is revealed, our fabrication students manufacture the field elements. These students also take the designs and cut files from our CAD students and use our CNC router to cut out each of the parts. These students will also use those parts to assemble our robot. Most of our fabrication students will also help to wire the robot. 

 

Strategy

• Match strat: These students meet with our alliance before a match to discuss what strategy to use for our alliance to win a match. They also use the data the scouters collect for alliance selection to determine which robot would compliment ours. 

• Scouters: These students watch all of the competition matches while collecting data on each robot. This data is collected by using an app that the students develop during build season. 

 

Programming

• Autonomous: These students use Java to program and test all of our autonomous paths. ​

• Mechanisms: These students use Java to program all of the different mechanisms on our robot. They also test the mechanisms to ensure that they are working properly.