MECHANICAL M-AYHEM on Nov 23rd @Ayers Gym, Menlo-Atherton High School


Mechanical M-Ayhem is a unique competition hosted at M-A created in 2018 with the purpose of mentoring rookie team members in how to build and compete with a robot.

Like a regular-season FRC tournament, M-Ayhem is a full-day event with multiple rookie teams. Teams of 6-7 rookies assemble robots from scratch over the course of twelve weeks and then compete together. Each match is a competition between two alliances with multiple robots on a side, and during qualification matches alliances are randomly created. The event has a similar format to the actual FRC season events, with a fixed number of qualification matches, and then single-elimination playoffs.

This teaches rookies how to build robots and how actual competitions work. In the long run, it provides students with the opportunity to apply critical thinking, logic, and engineering principles to real-world problems. Working together, students build camaraderie that lasts long after the competition day is over.

Since M-Ayhem's inception, M-A has included other teams, including Deep Blue 199, Gatorgears 4973, and Lionbots 7245.

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