A Constructive Day

       Tonight was project night. We worked on a replica of St. Louis. We also wrote a email to a expert on hybrid airships and asked him some questions.

Sierra and Zake worked on the email.

Essie, Beej, and PJ work on mini St. Louis.

-Essie and Sierra

Oct. 26 2013

   

     Today we worked on building our hybrid airship model, and programming the ambulance and truck              mission.  

   We modeled the hybrid airship so that it can drop a tray of  supplies.

-Essie and Zake  

A Fabulous Friday

        This Friday we made progress on the missions.  We are also working on a program that will square up on the black line with the color sensors.  In addition, we are building a model of a hybrid airship for our project presentation at the competition.

The prototype team: Zake, Essie, and TJ

Essie's cargo creation for the model

On November 14, we will present at a local Lions Club.  We are in the midst of planning our presentation.

-Sierra and Hazel

Another Meeting

    Today we worked on the robot and we also worked on the project. We got Run 1,2, and 3 almost programmed or completed. We researched about Hybrid Airships.

Us explaining the research we did to the team 

Us programming

An Outreach

Today we invited a family interested in FLL. We showed them what FLL involves, then we worked together to complete the plane mission.  We almost got the plane done, but had some technical difficulties :( We enjoyed working with them.

-Sierra 

Monday Night

   Today we had our first project night.  We discussed many solutions such as Hybrid Airships, and how we could make them work.  The team also did lots of research on earthquakes and transportation.  We hope to soon pick our official solution and create our presentation.

Us reading a research article

Some team members working on the project

 

 

-Hazel and Essie

Another Outreach Oppurtunity

     Today we had a few members of a fellow FLL team in the area, called the Metro East Builders, over to our meeting place.  We helped them with programming on the EV3 robot.  We also introduced them to some of the sensors which they had not previously used.

Discussing the different sensors

Showing them the basics of programming

-Sierra, Zake, and Hazel

Outreach at Disaster Relief Workshop

      On Thursday, October 10, we worked with four other FLL teams to educate elementary schoolers on natural disasters.  Our team focused on earthquakes.

Us playing "Shake'n'Spin", an earthquake question game.

Teaching the kids about earthquakes.

               It was a successful outreach opportunity!

-Zake, Sierra, and Hazel

  Today we accomplished another portion of Run 1.  We are starting to pick up speed in our mission programming.  We have been using more sensors in our missions, such as color and ultrasonic.  Also, later this week, we will be doing an outreach project, which we worked on today.  To go along with this year's theme, we will be explaining what earthquakes are and how to prepare for them to elementary schoolers.  We will have to prepare an interesting presentation for the children.

The team working on the robot

This is us working on the outreach presentation.
 

-Zake and Hazel