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January 16, 2015
In This Issue:
We're building our 2015 Robot!
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More than 40 students, mentors, family members, supporters and Coach Chee turned out for the January 3 Kickoff, getting up at 4:30 am to head to Mountlake Terrace High.
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First 2 Weeks of our "Build Season" - In Pictures
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Research is a big part of the process: Checking out what others are doing on the Chief Delphi website is vital.
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First things first: Inventory of parts is the priority number one, as knowing where everything is located become crucial during our 6 week build period.
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Loving Legos: For the second year, a to-scale-version of the playing field was made out of Legos to get a quick overview of what it all looks like on Day One of our build.
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Cofounder of FIRST, with inventor Dean Kamen, MIT Professor Woody Flowers gives out the code that unlocked the new 2015 Game Manual during the worldwide Kickoff broadcast.
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Twenty girls that code, build, market and more are all part of the 2015 Spartronics 4915 team.
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It takes a team to make sure we have everything we are supposed to have in our "Kit of Parts," which we picked up at the Kickoff.
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Learning from our past: ATLaS, our 2014 Competition robot, served us well, and now ATLaS can be used for STEM and Robotics outreach in our schools and community.
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A Dropcam is positioned to look over where we will build our new robot in Coach Chee's classroom to literally give us a bird's eye view of the build process.
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Mentors play a key role: Professionals who are engineers, product managers, and marketers volunteer their time to help guide students and answer their questions through hands-on empowerment
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Getting the robot wired: The robot building blitz has stations in three classrooms, all focused on group tasks as well as individual assignments.
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Strategy is vital: Team discussions focus on how we want to play the game, maximum scoring scenarios, robot prototyping ideas and more.
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Learning from others: Team groups research and watch what other teams are doing, as many teams share YouTube videos of their ideas, part of the Gracious Professionals and Coopertition culture that makes FIRST work.
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Hands on experience: Many team members have never built much of anything, less a robot before, but that is the entire point, says Coach Chee, who encourages team members to learn something by trying something new
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Students present their ideas: Spartronics 4915 is driven by the students and their ideas, with groups coming together to share their approaches to the robot design in front of the entire team, which together votes to select solutions.
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Every question is important: Team members are encouraged to question the presenters, ask questions and make suggestions at every juncture.
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Building a life-size scoring platform: It takes more than metal to build a robot for the 2015 Competition - we also build a scoring platform - completed this week - that the robot will test as it is being built.
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