We're in St Louis

 Both the team and bot have arrived in St Louis - some by bus (glamorous huh?), some by plane.

Today the team will be setting up it's pit area and going through inspections.  Very exciting to be at the world championships!

Week of 4/18

Well we are a week away from heading out to St Louis - the robot is in great shape and all we need to do is get some practice time in and organize our materials for pack up.

Here's the schedule for this week

Tues - practice from 6:00 - 8:00 - finish up engineering notebook and presentation

Wed 2:00- 3:30 Drive practice

Thur 6:00 - 8:00 Drive practice and final strategy review

Sat - optional drive practice

Since Sunday is Easter there will be NO PRACTICE on Sunday

Monday 11:00-2:00 Pack up for trip

Bus pick up is at 8:00pm on Monday night FQMS

Bot Specs (World)

Guider to help baton collecting
Samantha and Motor controls
Speed baton collector
Baton Maneuvering devise.
Baton collecting system
NXT
Drive Train, a great combo of speed and mobility
Bridge dropper, can easly push the bridge down to allow movement over the bridge.
Dispenser, Distance censor, Bull-nose, all assist in dispensing and collecting batons.
Bull-nose, lines up the rolling goal to allow perfect scoring
Opponent bot, OP-4, to help the younger scouts learn how to build and program a bot.

4/17/11

People Present-Connor, Scott, Sean, Holden, Matt, Brad, Logan, Jared, James, Mr. Lanterman.
Today we plant to-
Finish the Autonomous
Finish Mechanical Changes
practice
Finalize everything
Finish Bot Specs
Plan for Poster
Pictures for blog

FTC Robotics Presentation @ Folly Quarter Middle School 4/15/11

 Yesterday, Connor, Logan and Grant continued our outreach program by giving a presentation about FIRST and FTC at Folly Quarter Middle School.  The team did a great job organizing their presentation and discussing FIRST, our team and how it's possible to combine "fun", "learning" and "challenge" into a single activity.

 They boys brought our competiton robot plus the small "challenger bot" they built to help with building skills and getting more realistic practice results.  The guys had to learn how to operate the little robot using blue tooth.

 As you can see there was a lot of interest in the program.  We brought over 100 flyers (which provided by the MD FIRST team - thanks) and all of them were taken up.  Hopefully we can get Folly Quarter to think about re-starting their FLL program.

Here are the presenters, and yes they the ham's they appear to be!

News report of York Competition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0_xPHLkve0&feature=related

This is a cool news report by "WCAL 8" with footage from the competition and if you look closely you can see our very own Holden Smith, Brad, Mr. Reidy, and James.

4/14/11

People Present-Grant, Connor, Scott, Logan, Brad, Jared, Mrs. Lanterman, Sean, Holden, James, Matt

Today, first we talked about what we want to do-
-update Engineering notebook
-Left side Autonomous
-What to do after Robotics
-If we want to do "Robo Prom"
Logan and James are working on OP-4 baton collecting

4/10/11

People Present- Connor, Scott, Logan, James, Holden, Sean, Andrew, Mr. Pontious, MAtt
Today we are testing and editing our new Autonomous, Brad is designing our case for our bot to travel in.
Our secret autonomous is complete.

FRC competition Visit

Our visitor!













Our team member Andrew with his FRC team

We went to a FRC competition to display our robot.