Robot Rockstars

We had a Halloween party today.  We wore our costumes, played pictionary, did Halloween MadLibs and we practiced our skit.   We also had a ton of yummy munchies.  Thanks to everyone who brought snacks!

We have been working very hard on the Food Factor Challenge for the last few weeks.  We continue to improve our programs and our robot.   We even managed to incorporate a pneumatic system on our robot this year.  Our robot lab is in a garage.  Sometimes when we work at night moths fly in if the garage door is open.   They are attracted to the lights we have over the practice table.  We named our robot last night.  We called it the “Man I really hope this works Bot”, ha!   Our qualifier tournament is fast approaching on Sunday 11/13 at Eastlake High School.   We are really looking forward to our first tournament.  Only 6 teams of 24 will advance to the championship tournament at LegoLand.

We played mine field today.  You have to help a team member navigate a mind field blindfolded without touching them.   When you work together it is easy.   We you work against each other it is impossible.

We did some teamwork exercises today.  Check out our pyramid!

We went to the Chesapeake Fish Company today to learn about how fish are processed and distributed to local restaurants such as Red Lobster.  They distribute 20,000 pounds of fish each week.  We saw some fish get cleaned and learned what they do with the fish guts.  They taught us how to know when fish and oysters are fresh and safe to eat.  Joe Pastorini also spoke with us about HACCP regulations.  It was very cold in their building.

The team was on KUSI today at 6:45am.  We were there with three other teams.  It was great for the kids to interact with the FTC and FRC teams to see what they might be doing in the future.  Thanks to Sandra Hodge for inviting us to tag along.  The KUSI letters on the robot were a bit hit.

We were invited to KUSI tomrrow morning at 6am (arg).   We are not done with our chassis today so we held a quick meeting tonight to finish building our chassis.  We added big KUSI letters to the robot for fun.