Welcome to the home page of Team Checkmate (FRC40) from Manchester, NH! The team was founded in 1997 and today exists as a partnership between high School students from Trinity High School, employees of intelitek, inc., and a number of sponsors from Manchester and New Hampshire. To learn more about the team, please check out "About Us" on the navigation menu.

RSS February 11 – The new web site has gone live, long overdue since last season. Check out our photo gallery here to see pictures of our current progress this season.

RSS January 19 – On March 27, 28, and 29th, Trinity will be traveling to Boston University’s Agganis Arena for the 3rd annual Boston regional. Team 40 will also be traveling to the Championship tournament in Atlanta on April 17 to 20th.

RSS January 19 – Trinity Robotics is registered to compete at the BAE-Granite State regional on February 28, 29 and March 1st. The competition will be one of the first events of the new season and will be held at the Verizon Wireless Arena. All are welcome to attend and admission is free.

RSS January 19 – After a week of mid-term exams, the robot design has slowly crystallized and now, the machine shop is humming with activity as Team 40 embarks on a 14 day period of building. The robot must be ready for welding on February 4th.

RSS January 5 – The 2008 FIRST robotics season kicked off on January 5th with the FIRST Overdrive game. Teams are required to build robots that will score points by completing laps around a racecourse. Team’s can score additional points by rolling a large inflatable ball around the course having it score laps or by picking the ball up and “hurdling” it over a 6 ft. crossbar. Team 40 spent the first week of the new season playing Mini-FRC, which is a one-third scale version of the Overdrive game. Six teams of students from Trinity built robots over the course of a week to race around the Overdrive course. Students from Pembroke Academy traveled to Intelitek to also participate in the game. Both teams left feeling much better informed about the game and some of the peculiarities that are likely to be encountered.