Date: Saturday, September 7th at St Mary’s High School in Medford
Agenda: Skystone Kickoff!
In Attendance: Coach Cynde, Mentor Dan Killeby, Mentor Aidan and his Grandpa, Sean, Tristan, Liam and Lilly
Note Taker: Connie
Reflection: We took off at 6am for the drive to Medford. It was cool to see some of our other league mates. We waited for the big reveal and were excited to see the new field. It was not what any of us had expected. There are new restrictions on the robot height because of the bridge. We anticipated having to build something and had talked about an arm extension but now could see what is needed. The link for the challenge video is below:
The big job in our challenge is to create a claw that can pick up, transport and stack the Lego-esque blocks as high as possible with an extension arm that will lay under the 14” bridge in transport. In our team session, we discussed that the current x-rail is too long for this purpose and we may need to cut it shorter. We also talked about stability of the x-rail. When we used it to place the idol 2 challenges ago, it bent from the weight. We may need to look at the new Rev extrusion elements for more stability, but they are on backorder right now.
The team split up for classes at the Kickoff and attended Programming, Team Building, 3D printing, and Notebook. Team building showed that Biobotz spends a lot of time playing games together. We saw some great examples of notebooks, and learned some interesting ways that other teams work well together. We had a great day together and the food trucks were very good!
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