Today marks the end of week five, and the Robo-Lions are working hard on finishing our robot. Currently,our build team is finishing the manipulator and working on our pnematics. Our programming team will be running our ball hopper in a few minutes and we have our fingers crossed that it will work perfectly. Our Wiring team is working with our CAD geniuses to make a computer model of our wiring system before we put in on the robot.

As a team ritual, every year a person on our team has painted a lion onto our robot. This year we hope to continue that legacy by having an execeptional artist on our team, Hyrum, paint the lion.

As stated above the programming team just tested the ball hopper. Crossing our fingers must have helped because once again our programming team has pulled through and delivered exceptional code. Now we have to work on our aiming mechanism and shooting mechanism. If all goes smoothly we will have everything done by the middle of next week, but as a two year veteran of FIRST robotics we all know that things do not always go as planned.

Our first competition will be the Cheasapeake regional in Baltimore, Maryland. Last year at this competition we made it into the quarter finals. Last year we also won the Engeneering Inspiration Award at the New Jersy regional, which allowed us to go to Championships in St.Louis. This year we are going to the Cheasapeake regional and the Cincinnati regional, we hope to win some award at these regional and hopefully go to Championships again.