About Our Team
Established in 1998, FIRST® Team 79 Krunch is an award-winning competitive robotics team comprised of high school-aged students, professional mentors, and adult volunteers within our community. Student team members are engaged in a fast-paced learning process of designing, building, and programming a robot that is capable of performing specific tasks during competitive events on a playing field developed by FIRST®.
Team members currently meet every Wednesday at 5:30pm at the East Lake Community Library and up to six days per week during build season. Our seasons run as follows:
PRE-SEASON – August through December
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Organize the team’s returning members and teach new members the skills necessary to participate in upcoming competitions
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Sub-teams are formed with different specialties, and basic skill sets are taught by seasoned students and engineering mentors
BUILD SEASON – January through March
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Begins in January at the Kickoff event, where the FIRST® organization announces the new season’s game challenge to thousands of teams throughout the world
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Team members design and build a robot capable of performing the tasks within the specific FIRST® game challenge
COMPETITION SEASON – March through April
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Our team traditionally competes in two FIRST® regional competitions
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If the team qualifies during one of the two regional events, they go on to compete in the FIRST® Championship event
POST SEASON – May through August
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Focuses on new student recruitment, robot demonstrations, community outreach, and fundraising events

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