Weeks One and Two

Well week three of the build season has officially started, and we are well underway!

Week one consisted of the entire team coming together for huge brain storming sessions and a break down of the game and each rule. We came up with a few different game strategies before trying to figure them out, and then our mentors came up with a really fun idea! A field trip to the balcony of our school’s gym turned into a human rendition of Breakaway complete with human robots, human towers, and human “speed bumps” as they were affectionately called. Needless to say, a few bumps had poorly defended heads and were knocked a couple times. After the students rotated around on teams, the mentors had a go at being robots, and there is nothing funnier than watching mentors try and hang. Much funnier than trying to hang ten.

Eventually we decided on a robot design. Want to know what it is? Well, if you’re local, come to our open house on February 22^nd (more details to come), and if you’re part of another team or unable to come to the open house, I suppose you shall have to wait until one of the regionals we’re attending! Boilermaker and Kansas City are the places to be, home skillet. Hope to see you there.

Week one also kicked off our weekly dinners prepared by our highly esteemed Parent Crew. Here’s a shout out to their awesome cooking skills. They are very much appreciated!

Week two commenced with each sub team breaking off to do their own thing.

Design started putting together drawings of the robot. Controls got down to the nitty gritty working with different control systems and the camera that came in the kit, and Manufacturing made mock-ups of major field pieces and continued working with physics and prototypes to see what does and does not work. And Public Relations? Well, we’re working on Chairman’s of course! Along with our other projects anyway.

So the team is quite busy, buzzing about like Killer Bees – oh wait, wrong team! Regardless of our lack of a bee-like status, we are quite busy, and week three just brings with it another seven days of craziness.

What is on the calendar? Tuesday we’re going to visit our buddies at one of the elementary schools; they’re so adorable. Wednesday, the ladies of the team are making a presentation for the Society of Women Engineers. How very SWEet!

We’ll keep you updated!!

Go Colts!
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