Early in the morning, students gathered at 4:30 in the morning around the “Muffin” at McKinley High School. After eagerly watching the Kick-Off countdown on the FRC live stream, the theme for FRC 2019 was revealed.

Following Kickoff, subgroups of team Kika Mana got right to work. Mechanical quickly started by constructing field elements, while electrical was hard at work coding a variety of sensors. The swerve drive code from 2017 was translated into VS code. Members had also taken out the 2017 robot to test its code as well as its interaction with cargo.