FLL Showcase

      Last Saturday we went to an FLL Showcase.  Our team took first in robot runs!  Our best score was 442 points.  It was a lot of fun to see all of the other teams compete.  A team we previously mentored, The Metro East Builders, won the Robot Design Award and finished third in robot runs!  Our Project, Core Values, and Technical judgings all went well too.

The team nervously awaiting the project judging

Making tweaks to the robot

The awesome scoreboard (notice our name at the top)

Our best run

-Sierra and Hazel

1/8/2014

 

 

            Tonight we worked on the robot and we also made a diagram of our hybrid airship round trip. Also, we did several outreaches in the past few weeks to the O'Fallon Rotary Club (there is a video of one of our demonstrations above), the Mascoutah Lions Club, and the Webster Grove's Missouri Lions Club.

This is an article on the FLL mock competition
http://www.heraldpubs.com/articles/2014/01/04/mascoutah/doc52c6c4feb73ca497149138.txt
-Zulu and Zake

Jan. 4 2014

Today we discussed what we could improve on at the competition and and started to tweak the skit, robot runs, and core values.

We are running robot runs here.

We are programming here.

We are tweaking the skit.

   

The Competition Is Coming Up!!!

         The competition is on December 14, which means that we are still surging!!! We have so much to do in so little time!  (many apologies for not posting in a while; we are just so busy preparing for competition!)
         On Thursday we are scheduled to meet with the CEO of Aeros, a company designing hybrid airships (our solution).
         We have decided who will run the robot in our robot matches at competition:
Essie and Sierra,
Zake and Zulu,
PJ and Beej, and
Hazel and Flybird.

-Sierra

SURGE!!!!

          IT'S SURGE WEEK (if you didn't figure that out already).  This means we meet every night, except for a few choice nights, for the next two weeks until the competition.  How exciting!!!! 
         On another note,  yesterday we worked on the spreadsheet (it's almost done!) and replied to Mr. R, an expert that we were corresponding with.  We also worked on Mission 3, and perfected our gyro sensor within that mission.
          On yet another note, today we Skyped with another FLL team who also are researching hybrid airships.  We shared what we learned with one another.  It was a great experience.

Us Skyping with our fellow FLLers :)

 

-Sierra and Hazel



A Productive Day

 

        Today, we did our first performance on the skit, and we worked on Run 3 on the robot. We also worked on our tech. judging. The moms of the kids, worked on the duct tape vests.

This is us working on the skit.

This is us working on the skit.

Us working on the robot 

Here are the moms making duck tape vests.

-Zake and Essie

Friday Night Fun

      Tonight we finished writing the skit.  It is based on the Wizard of Oz, and will be a lot of fun to perform!  We also "perfected" (as much as we "perfect" anything) the gyro sensor program on the robot.  This included a lot of math :)

 

Sierra, Hazel, and Zake work on the skit.

PJ, Zulu, and Zake watch the robot.

On Thursday, we presented to our local Rotary Club.  It was a great experience.

 

 

-Hazel, Sierra, and Zake