Well we've had about 3 weeks of school and 6ish meetings. We started to design the robot, since we have two robots we are trying to come up with a pair of robots that work best when they are on the same team. We thought of making a offencive and defensive robot, so one robot that can block and the other one would score. We decided that this idea would fail since the triangular goals would ultimatly keep the blocking robot from blocking efficently. The design for the blocking robot was pretty cool though. We thought of a box that could unfold to create a 90" wall that would be raised to 20 inches high, and there was some discousion wether we could add a structure to the top to make it even taller so it would have a final high of 24" or so inches. We have a engineering class that is helping us with the robot's design and build, awesome =D. We've also been watching all the videos from the new zealand matches to get idea and have some other great one's.

For the last two or three weeks we have been waiting to acquire a used wheel chair that one of the teachers at our school has donated to the club. We finally received the wheel chair and have been thinking what to do with it. Here are some the ideas we came up with.

1. Robotic tank that is controlled by a computer through Wifi. With some kind of cannon obviously =).
2. A robot with two arms and camera on it so we can pour a glass of water or something like that. This one is also controlled be a computer through Wifi.
3. An autonomous robot that will "see" and drive through an obstacle course.
4. Or an autonomous robot that will have a map in its "brain" and a GPS to track where it is. So we can tell it where to go and it will create a course on its own and get there as fast as possible.

Right now we think we are just going to build the tank and then later add the robots arms, “sight”, and GPS navigation system.