We met today to prepare for Kick Off. It’s hard to believe that it is on Saturday! Our chairman’s report is well underway. We’re trying to have it mostly done before this weekend so we can spend our time and effort brainstorming and building an awesome robot.
We also prepared advertising for around the school to encourage our friends and teachers to come to Kick Off with us. We hung up our new safety posters to remind everyone about wearing the right equipment.
Of course, there’s always time for snacks!
One more meeting before Kick Off…we look forward to meeting our new friends team 3710 the Cyber Falcons from Frontenac Secondary School who are joining us for the day.
We watched the animation on youtube, and scrutinized the rules that are archived on the FIRST website. We split up into three smaller groups and brainstormed about ways to play the game. There are many different strategies for all of the FIRST robotics challenges, so we kept ourselves busy for a while!
After writing our ideas on chart paper and white boards, we presented them to the rest of our team.
We compiled all of the ideas using software called SMART ideas. So many times we brainstorm but lose some key points along the way. Using the software allows everything to be documented graphically and then converted to a text document.
We hope to use this approach for our kick off on January 8th as well.
