Blog
Updates from the team — competitions, outreach, and what we've been building.
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July 2026
Our 2026 Code is Up on GitHub
We cleaned up and published our full 2026 codebase for anyone who wants to see how we built it — or borrow from it.
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May 2026
Thank You to Our 2026 Sponsors
Looking back on a season with real highs and real lows, we want to say thank you to the sponsors who made all of it possible — especially Keystone.
April 2026
Presenting Alongside YASS at the FIRST World Championship
Our district season wrapped up at Space City, but our year wasn't done — we joined Yet Another Software Suite to present at the FIRST World Championship.
April 2-4, 2026
Recap: Wrapping Up Our Season at Space City
We closed out our season at FIT District Space City with a 5-7-0 record and rank 24 — with a big assist from our friends at 3481, BroncBotz.
March 2026
Getting Ready for Space City
After a rough weekend in San Antonio, we're heading to FIT District Space City with our bumpers fixed and our heads back in the game.
March 2026
Getting Vision Working After San Antonio
San Antonio taught us we needed better vision tracking. We spent the week after our event getting it actually working.
March 12-14, 2026
Recap: A Tough Weekend in San Antonio
We finished 23rd with a 5-7 record after a rough start at inspection — our bumpers weren't up to spec. A hard but honest lesson.
March 2026
Back to San Antonio
Our first competition of the 2026 season is coming up, right back where our story started.
March 2026
Spring Break at Taft with the Roboraiders
We spent spring break at Taft High School practicing and building the rest of our robot alongside Team 3561, the Roboraiders.
February 2026
Testing in Simulation with YAMS
With hardware still coming together, YAMS let us program and test our robot code in simulation before a single motor was bolted on.
February 2026
Pivoting to the Everybot
Purchasing delays and inventory gaps caught up with our Big Dumper plans. We're pivoting to the 2026 Everybot by Team 118 instead.
January 2026
We Want to Build a Big Dumper!
Fresh off Kickoff, we've set our sights on building our own version of Big Dumper. Now the fun part: making the CAD work with what we've actually got.
January 2026
Announcing YAMS and YAMG at the 2026 FRC Kickoff
At this year's FRC Kickoff in San Antonio, we teamed up with Yet Another Software Suite to announce two new tools: YAMS and YAMG.
August 23, 2025
Stack & Jam with Youth Code Jam
We brought our robot to Youth Code Jam's Stack & Jam event to show K-12 students what FRC robots can actually do.
June 9-13, 2025
Our First Robotics Summer Camp
We ran our first robotics summer camp for middle schoolers this week. We're already planning to make it an annual thing.
May 2025
Starting FTC Team #31617
We started our own FTC team at our middle school, and we're mentoring them ourselves.
April 2025
Recap: Rising All-Star at Districts
Out of 90 teams at the Texas District Championship, the judges picked us for the Rising All-Star Award.
March 2025
Getting Ready for the Texas District Championship
We qualified for the Texas District Championship, one step away from a shot at the FIRST Championship.
March 2025
Recap: 4th Alliance Captain & a Judges' Award in Houston
Houston went better than we ever could have planned for: 4th Alliance Captain and a Judges' Award.
February 2025
Getting Ready for Houston
Our second season is a completely different team than last year's. We're heading to Houston ready to prove it.
Spring 2024
We Raised Our First $10,000
We closed out our rookie year having raised nearly $10,000 — and Keystone matched every dollar.
March 2024
Recap: We Competed!
Our first-ever FRC competition is in the books. We didn't win it all, but we walked away with something better.
February 2024
Getting Ready for San Antonio
In a few weeks we compete for the first time ever. We are nowhere near ready and we could not be more excited.
January 2024
Six Weeks to Our First Robot
Kickoff happened, the game got revealed, and suddenly we had six weeks to build a robot with no mentors and no idea what we were doing.
Fall 2023
Camber Robotics is Born
A few of us at Keystone School decided we wanted to build a robot. That's really how it started.