Day 3 - Day 6

Day 3 - 6 of Build Season
Januar y 8 , 2013 - January 11, 2013

The team worked on prototypes for their basic designs.

The team separated into design teams and each team created basic design concepts based on their strategies.

After creating basic design strategies and using a design matrix to select their preliminary designs, the teams began work on their prototypes.

Students used VEX Robotics kits and any material to simulate their basic designs.

Day 2

Day 2
Monday
January 7, 2013

The team completed all of it's objectives for day 2.

At the beginning of the meeting, students presented their strategies for the FRC 2013 game to the whole class. Following the presentations, the team divided into 4 design groups, with each group concentrating on creating 4 basic design concepts, with 1-2 of those concepts becoming preliminary design concepts.

The team is on track to select the final design by Saturday with construction of the robot to begin on Wednesday at the latest.

Only 43 more days until the Stop-Build day for the robot.

Day 1

Day 1
Sunday
January 6, 2012

No team meeting was held for Day 1, since no meetings are held during Sundays.

Each student were given a homework assignment, create a game strategy for the 2013 game, Ultimate Ascent. This homework assignment is due at the beginning of class on Day 2, Monday January 7.

All students, please note that we are on build schedule until the end of the build season.

As of now, there are only 44 days left until the end of the build season for FRC 2013.

Day 0 (FRC Kickoff)

The new game for the 2013 FR5C season is Ultimate Ascent.

The link to the game manual can be found here:
http://frc-manual.usfirst.org/viewItem/3

Today the team began the season by reviewing the game manual and watching the entire FRC Kickoff webcast. The team separated into groups to cover a different section of the game manual (excluding the introduction). After 45 minutes reviewing the sections, each group presented what they found to the class. We completed nearly all of our goals for Day 0.

Tutorials

With the start of winter break and FRC Kickoff just a few weeks away, now's the time to prepare for the coming build season.

We will setup helpful links for use during the build season. These links include information and tutorials related to all things FIRST.

Winter PotLuck

Thanks to all those from the Advanced Robotics class and VEX Robotics Club who participated in the Winter potLuck.

The PotLuck was a huge success with a lot of participants bringing food/drinks for the PtLuck.

We also had a lot of Arcadia High School graduates who came back to visit the club/class during the PotLuck. Many of these graduates will serve as mentors for the 2013 FRC season.

As the week comes to an end, the team is preparing for the FRC Kickoff on January 5. Good luck to all teams.

Approaching the FRC Kickoff

Kickoff is less than a month away!

With several intriguing game hints given over the 2013 FRC Game, numerous hypothesis have been proposed. Several proposals have been shot down but others remain. Will it be a water game? Will there be three alliances this year? Will we see another sports related game like last year? What will the autonomous period be this year?

These questions and many more will be resolved on January 5. Good luck to all teams.