This is a place for team members to post their thoughts and document the team's efforts. But reader beware: some team members have a rather odd sense of humor, so everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
It is a few days after ship, and the team is waking up to find out they have other things to worry about besides this robot. Classwork, homework, college applications, and all that other stuff you put off is staring you in the face. And your mentor keeps telling you that you're not done with robotics yet. Scout other teams! Finish up loose ends! And (of course) clean up after yourselves - this place is a mess!
And one minor detail - two weeks from now we compete this robot that cost all the sweat,tears and loss of sleep. How will we do? We will find out, and much of that is luck and timing. But a good deal is due to the hard work and many hours of agonizing thought, analysis, argument, and trial and error that is engineering.
I look at the pictures of this year's robot and I see learning. It hasn't been easy, and not always as much fun as you might wish, but there are many, many lessons here. We never named this one, but I think "Almost" is self-defeating and "Lessons" a bit dry. I personally like "Abominable" (as in Snowman).
If you don't like my blog, you need to write something! Thanks Alex for keeping up the reports. What do the rest of you think?
~ Posted by Mrs. Young on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 @ 11:02 pm
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