F.I.R.S.T. 2008
We cannot think that far ahead.
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AUSTIN - Our first year to compete, we did not even think that we were going to be in the competition the day before the competition started. Three days later there was a 99% chance of us being in the competition, and all of us thought, “that’s cool, we get to actually do something.” Not a single one of us, including our instructor, knew what we were in for. We assigned people to find every way to get points in the actual competing and in the competition as a whole, and started an education team. Everyone was underway except for the actual robot team. The competition was titled 2021: A Robot Odyssey, and involved getting out of a box, up a ramp, collecting supplies and getting them your scoring area in three minutes while three other robots were on the course collecting the same supplies that you might want. The robot team started looking through designs, but it took them two weeks before a single thing was even starting to be built. The designers struggled to figure out what was actually going to be made and after the third week we ended up split into two groups determined that their idea was the right one. The chassis was built and working. The only thing that needed to be built were the arm and cargo bin. |
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