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We have had our first meetings of the year and have recruited some new members for our team. An engineering class at our school has decided to help us by working with us to coming up with a design. We have two robots in this years cometition so we are thinking of making a offensive and defensive robot that can function best when they are used together. There are several videos on youtube of this years competition so we have been watching them to get ideas about what works and what doesn't. Here is a link to one of them "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H_hrSBSqMs".

The new competition this year will be a engineering challenge since the competition involves the picking up of Nerf footballs, 3inch balls, and a basketball. These Nerf balls have a variety of sizes which makes it important to be able to pick up all the different types, but they are slightly compressible which should make the balls easier to grab.

We have been able to control all censors with and without the transmitter with the new program, this is a major breakthrough! Now we do not have to worry about which sensors we can use but how to build the robot and use the sensors.

Well while we we're on break one of our competitions was announced. The Vex website posted the challenge and the tournament dates. The new challenge "Clean Sweep" incoulds a 12' by 12' field with a wall dividing it in the center. There are several triangle goals that can be scored in, the point of the game is to place all the balls on the field in your opponents side or in your designated goals.

We are currently trying to perfect our way of programming to make this year’s robot unstoppable. This year we will try to not only get the programming award in both Vex and UsFirst but also win a local competition and go to the national finals. Many times in the last rounds of our competitions we lost due to a programming error. Our new method of programming should create a more reliable robot with more control.

Hey everyone, we haven't been posting in a very long time, but we're back for the new season of robotics. Last year we received a large grant from Lockheed-Martin and our school, so we bought the new FTC robot. It's all metal and really great to build with. We did a couple tournaments last year got a couple 3rd place finishes with our VEX robot and received a Programing award for our autonomous mode. With our FTC robot we did two events and did decent in the first one and we went undefeated until the final match for the second tournament. We were nominees for the all-around-excellence award in the second tournament too!! We have started to update the blog, we have some new member in our team, the 10' team consists of Tad, Sven, Alex, and Erik. We have some other member that show up to our builds every once in a while. Some of our team left us because they were seniors. Aaron, Donnie, George, Andrew we wish all goes well for you in college. We hope this year will be better than our last. This is the Programing award, and the signatures of the team.