Off Season 2025

Hi! Welcome back to the Iron Claw Blog for the 2025-2026 season! It is nice to see the team back along with many new members joining our team!Starting off strong, Iron Claw had attended Chezy Champs and obtained the finalist as the fourth team on the first alliance team. With well-thought preparations, our robot, Vantage, was ready to get onto the field in Bellemore College Prep.The preparation for Chezy was a mix between improvements on Vantage and first year training. Learning from prior experience, the team concluded that attending Chezy would be the best idea for hand-on experiences. Anyhow, the team quickly settled into their competition mindset. Each subteam concentrated on their tasks.The CAD subteam started with ample Onshape training to get the students into good shape. With continuous diligence, all members are ready to design more interesting parts for the team! For the Control System this year, similar to the CAD team, the team leader gave well pre-season training for the first year’s. As for preparation for Chezy Champ, many crimping options were explored, including IDCs, Breakable IDCs, and Molex crimps. The team also found a kind of IDC to help troubleshoot. In the Machining team, the students were well-trained with the diverse machining tools, like mills and lathe, which will become very handy during the build season. With several [...]