1/12/2012 - Going to Indiana
Today, our mentor, Mr. Marts called a meeting to ask
us if we wanted to go to another tournament. He had us a spot at the
Indiana State tournament if we wanted to go and of course we did. It
will be on March 10th so we will be meeting Tuesday & Thursdays until the
tournament gets closer. We have prioritized a list of nine things we
want to do to improve our robot. We will probably only do the top four
that should make the most impact.
12/3/2011- Lego league tournament
Today was the day of the Lego competition. We
set up our game court and demonstrated our robot as was the FRC Bomb Squad.
We demonstrated our FTC robot to the kids who are in Lego league to show
them what they can do in robotics in their future. We showed them how our
robot worked and how our matches run which was different from their matches.
We also answered questions about the program.
12/2/2011- Our first tournament
Today was the day of competition. We went through a
lot of matches and we ended up being seeded second which meant that when we
went to pick an alliance we were second to pick alliance partners. The
number one seeded team, team 2888, asked us to be alliance partners and we
agreed. We went through the final elimination matches and our alliance won.
Team 2888 went on to win the Inspire award and we were second runner up.
At that point, we realized that since we were the first picked on our
alliance and didn’t pick our own alliance we wouldn’t be getting an
invitation to World which was a letdown but we did win our first tournament.
10/28/2011-The mast works and we lifted a
crate
Today was the day that we took the mast off the
makeshift drive base and put it onto the permanent drive base. We were
pretty confident that it would work because we had used CAD to get an idea
on how long each part of the mast should be. When we ran it we were correct
because except for a few minor adjustments it worked just fine! Also today
we were able to lift a crate which was a great boost of morale for us.
9/15/2011 –The first meeting
Almost all of us were new to this. Only two had been
on the team last year and they were now expected to be able to step up and
take charge of some eighth graders who would probably question their every
request. It was expected to be hard to get us to work together and to
actually meet deadlines on updating our website and building the robot. Our
first meeting we went over strategies and started practicing speaking
exercises to help us get more comfortable standing and speaking. It was a
lot of work but we were able to pull it together and become serious about
what we needed to do and how to do it. All in all a really good first
start I’ve been told.
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