Button Images
Each team member customized about 10% of the buttons with one of the images below. If you come to the tournament, grab one!
Happy Birthday Elegotricguitargirl
We had pumpkin cookies for snack and one decorated especially for the birthday girl. BONUS: If you look closely near the right center of the photo, you can also see PugBot2's laser beam eyes -- watch out!
Recently, we needed an another adult at the meeting. Former Coach Born2BWired graciously volunteered to come out of retirement for a couple meetings. Elegotricguitargirl, our veteran, was the only team member that was acquainted, but the rest of the kids warmed right up to him.
THANKS!
We had an expert visit us tonight to help us with our research project. He is an airline pilot and had tons of cool pictures and stories for us! We have also been in contact with a shipping company, another airline and zoo employees around Georgia.
Research Project Experts
The team started making buttons for the upcoming regional qualifier tournament on December 12th at Palmer Middle School in Cobb Co. There will be 30+ team competing!
This year we are making half of the buttons generic. Each team member will personalize the other half of the buttons.
We assigned roles recently (see below). Each team member has an important part to play in the overall functioning of the team! Our team asks each person to participate in all four parts of the FLL competition: Robot Game, Technical Presentation, Research Project and Teamwork. But there are individuals that have strengths in certain skill sets.
Team Roles
We assigned roles this week: Builder leader, Programmer leader, Scribe/Photographer/Videographer, Power Czar, Robot and Attachment Integrity Meister, and Team Elder.
Robot Mission Progress
Although our strategy is still top secret, we can say that we have worked on five missions so far. Some are going great or are complete, but we are working through issues on others. One mission we can share is that we have successfully attached the Crash Test Dude to the robot for the duration of the run!
We have been doing many things to learn about FLL Values and Gracious Professionalism. We recently played "hang-man" with key words from FLL Values and Gracious Professionalism. We also made up a word search puzzle that we will share with you here: Download FLL Values and Gracious Professionalism wordsearch.
We cloned the robot, so that team members can work simultaneously. We started building attachments and did some initial programming.
The kids completed an FLL Values/Gracious Professionalism crossword puzzle (Download FLL Values and Gracious Professionalism crossword). The project continues to evolve. We have chosen our community and a preliminary project title. A few experts have been contacted.
Unfortunately, most of the team was ill on the actual release day, so we postponed the release party until tonight. It was make-your-own-sundae time! We discussed the research project and robot game missions. The kids brainstormed communities and ways to accomplish the various missions. We all agreed that the missions are deceptively easy.
The Project
- We have to define “our community”.
- Think of ways things, people, animals, information, etc. move around, to, from, through our community.
- Research problems associated with this transportation system, then pick one to solve.
- Create an innovative solution, then share that with our community.
Robot Game The robot game is played on a giant test track this year. We will post some examples as we figure out the missions. Here is the table set up.
