January 31, 2017

To start practice today, we just did building mostly. But after everyone arrived and prep was finished, we played a Core Values game we made called Postal Service. There were 6 areas, each with items, a mailbox, and a safe zone. One person delivered an item to the mailbox of another, and the person there moved it to their safe zone. If they weren't there, it could be stolen from the box by the thieves. Then, we just went back to robot and building for the rest of practice. For example, Cooper tried to rebuild the shark brace so we could deliver the shark to the east rectangle to get extra points. The team is also building a long arm to deliver the bee and pig. Finally, Spencer is working on code to do the pandas.


                Until next time, keep building!

January 26, 2017 Update

We tried to do shark, but we couldn't get enough propulsion from our ramp without tipping the shark over.  We also played a kahoot to put some information into our heads that we need to know for the State Tournament.  We are also working on a basket that carries the bee into the hive.  This attachment is in production and has not been tried out yet.  It is still a prototype.


                   Until next time, keep building!

January 26, 2017

Today we are attempting to make a self-driving shark windup mechanism that will go to the east rectangle. We are putting the shark on the bottom of the tank by flipping it over, because that is legal and he is only touching the tank floor! We need more force to get him to bang into the wall, as we need to line up for the right box. We also did a quiz, and there are two developers working on more! We are going to do 3D printing with a teacher at this school so we can print models of our animal ramp (AmphibiRamp).

      Until next time, keep building!