Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FTC on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
The championship is now over. I’ve no clue who won. As it turned out, the robot performed fairly well compared to some of the teams that got there by winning regionals. However, it was difficult to drive, aim, etc. We also discovered the solution to all our gearing system problems in a Mexican team’s beautiful [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FTC, machinery on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Time has slowed down, a good thing too–we had lots to work on. Our robotics competition is on Thursday. Today will be the final leg.
We must practice, practice, and somehow get our average up to 50 points in one minute, forty seconds. That’s a point every two seconds, so we probably won’t get it that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FTC, machinery, prayer requests on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Robotics in two days! Our bot works! Good thing too; we’re competing against teams that beat us at regionals. Pray for us.
Posted in school, travel, tagged FTC, machinery on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It appears that team 420, and I with it, are going to the FIRST nationals! So many teams won first place at multiple competitions that they had a drawing for lowly teams like ours to come as filler. However, the drawing took place eight days before they told us. FIRST also slapped us with a humongous entrance fee in proportion to the notice they gave us.
Despite this all, I’m rather happy to go.
