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.

I was browsing around online and i came upon some cool robot videos, Check these out!!

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.