Huntington County 4-H Robotics

Well what a FUN day! We kicked off our LEGO season today. First we introduced ourselves and then we did a Spaghetti and Marshmallows team building activity. (see pictures). Later on in the morning, after we reviewed mission videos, and broke up into three smaller teams. The students called themselves: Star Wars, PSI, and Super Gold teams. We ranked the missions from hardest to easiest then each team took the top three hardest ones and so on until all the missions where broken up among the three smaller groups. We started assembling the field together as another team activity and Monday night we will start rotating through our groups of build table, project table, and field. All and all the team did an awesome job today and it was allot of fun! See you guys Monday night for more fun finishing up the field and building our robot! Go Team #3669!!!

Well, we are back from an exciting IRI weekend. It was a great weekend with the students. I’d have to say it was our best IRI finish in five years, considering we had a 3 win, 5 loss record. The dumper conversion that Wayne designed up helped us run Empty Cells and become effective with adding to our alliance Super Cells in the end. Although we were no match for the power dumper robots. Despite all that, Team THRUST won the Quality Award, you’ll have to stop by the shop to see the AWESOME, AWESOME looking trophy we won.

Of other news, Luke Pike won a $1,000 scholarship sponsored by AndyMark. Congratulations to Luke! Luke also won a 4-H scholarship and the BAE Systems scholarship as well.

IRI always brings a close to the robotics season, and the start of the next. Congratulations to all the students who worked so hard the 2008-2009 robotics season.