Today marked a milestone in our season. This is the last day that we’re testing and practicing in the Transformix warehouse!
We practiced shooting A LOT!
The good thing is that we were also scoring A LOT!
At the end of the day we packed up our gear, disassembling our test rig…getting ourselves ready for St. Louis.
Our programming/drive team is optimistic about how well we can perform in St. Louis. We’ll be playing in the Archimedes division with our friends 1114, 2056 and 781. We’re looking forward to a strong Canadian presence in the division.
K-Bots: enjoy the weekend off–do all your purple laundry! We’ll see you on Monday after school for a meeting and to finalize all the details. Tuesday we’ll meet at 7:15PM to load the bus.
Reporting live from KCVI. We are camped out, with 120 other people in the school basement for Relay For Life, a night of activities and fun aimed at raising funds and awareness for cancer research.
Zumba dance lessons….
The luminary ceremony, where the luminaries were lit, and the gym was dark. We sat together and heard from another cancer survivor–a KCVI teacher, then walked another lap around the track.
We had a sing-along in the courtyard, and then we demonstrated our robots for the crowd.
Because of our short ceilings, we cut the pole to fit in our classroom. We have a longer pole that we can use in the hallway or when we get our warehouse/test area set up.
Prototyping continues on minibot and manipulators for our host bot.
We were pleased to have Richard from Transformix helping out today with wiring for our minibot designs. There’s lots of math involved with figuring out proper circuitry.
We tried hooking up our new circuits, which involved a few soldering lessons. Webinar writing continued throughout the day. Over the next few days we will be loading them on Youtube and creating a webinar section on this site.
What would you like to see in a webinar?
Today we were thrilled to have lots of parents visit us to see our progress. Robotics is a family affair: feel free to come and visit any time!
We appreciate all the support, and the cookies and muffins that our families deliver to us! There’s a meal sign up sheet by the lab door, we hope that we’ll get some families signing up to provide evening meals when we stay late. Thanks to those who already have signed up!
