August 2025:  One of our sister teams, the Loggerbots out of Vernonia High School, is able to pass on lots of wonderful gear for us as they are pivoting to doing an FTC team that fits much better into their curriculum and so will not need some of the FRC-specific items they currently have.   So we have lots of inventory to sort through and a shop to organize before school begins.  On this same theme, one of our coaches attended a 2-day workshop put on by ORTOP and learned how to build  and code the FTC robots that Vernonia will be using this year.  We will add their competitions to our calendar to see if we can cheer them on!  

July 2025:  This week Byte Sized heads to the Columbia County Fair on Thursday (July 17, 2025) to take over the Exhibition hall and play with robots.  10-4 in the big octogon building.  We are bringing Debby the new Demo bot, AutoMati, our 2024 Competition robot, and our T Shirt cannon

Our main building season ended well, and we now turn our focus to our outreach, new builds, and updating our webpage.  We also have the County Fair to prepare for as well as some other engagements around our community.

We are working on a new tank drive bot to give our newer team members a chance to put stuff together off-season.    We are calling it our wifflebot or DEBBY (designed, erected, built by youth).  

In addition, we have been looking over our 2023 robot, Automati, and found some sheared wiring and several small issues to address before the County Fair.