Challenge Review

For today's meeting we reviewed lesson learned from the VEX Challenge and talked about things we need to work on. Some of the lessons learned, as shared by the team members, are:

• Making modifications at the last minute the robot failed.
• Other teams didn't follow the book build instructions, but that's OK, it isn't necessary to have a good robot.
• Do better at stacking will help.
• Our current robot sometimes doesn't work.
• Size matters, keep in parameters.

In addition to focusing on their strength of pushing for their robot design, they identified the following things from the judging portion of the challenge to work on:

• Use the design notebook.
• STEM research project.
• Need a team name.

We had a snag again with the system saying a component needed to be updated and couldn't get the claw going with the borrowed motor that failed to get returned on Saturday. Without internet access or the updater installed on a school computer I was unable to resolve the version update message and figure out if the motor was still OK before returning it. We also seemed to be short our charger. A result of my having to leave early.

We finished up with some driving practice pushing blocks and an impromptu obstacle course. They had a lot of fun.