Down to the final two!

Team 156 RPM has two meetings left before competition! We are hard at work making the final touches and finishing up details to make sure everything is ready to go. We are finishing up the Chairman's video preparing our Chairman's binder, and passing out T-shirts today. Downstairs, they are finishing up painting the bumpers and building spare parts. Tomorrow, we will be meeting to pack up our truck. Some students will be leaving after school on Wednesday, and the rest of the team Thursday morning. The next time this is updated, we will be at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional Competition! See you there!

AHHHH!

            Robotics is getting intense, like camping... Upstairs, we are finishing the Chairmen's video and the Presentation. Downstairs, we are hard at work with taking apart the work bench, taking in the final layouts for the robot. We will be heading out next Thursday morning for California, Pennsylvania. Don't forget we only have a couple of meetings left. Next Tuesday is our mandatory meeting to load the truck for the competition. Let's go out there and get some metal. Rev it up, rev it up, RPM!!! WHOA!!!

We have begun to work on the physical preparations to leave for competition. Gathering tools together, updating and preparing safety materials, preparing our tool box, and many other such things have kept RPM busy! Upstairs, we continue to work hard on completing our Chairman's video submission and presentation, both of which must be done before the competition. Busy, busy, busy!! A parent was generous enough to come in and take pictures of our whole team recently. A team picture will be posted tomorrow. Make sure to come back and see it!

2 more weeks!!!

With only just over 2 weeks left until our competition, we continue to work hard to prepare! We have begun scouting out teams from the first few competitions to give us an idea for who we want to ally with when we compete. We have also begun to watch videos and read articles about successes and failures, as well as loopholes that hadn't been considered. Finally, today we completed our photo collages that will act as visual representation of our chairman's information. Team 156 RPM is preparing to the best that we can do!!

Submissions

With our robot bagged and tagged, it may seem like there is nothing left for us to do. However, that is far from the truth. Downstairs, our build team is working hard on making spare components, cleaning up and organizing, and practicing driving with our demo bot. Upstairs, believe it or not, we are still working on awards. By working outside of our meetings, we have recently managed to complete a submission for an award that has never been offered before, the Media and Technology Innovation Award. Yay!! On Saturday, we were able to take a team picture and record all the components of our Chairman's video. This video is made to act as visual proof of the statements we made in our essay. Our visual people are working hard to splice the different sections together. Although not as much, RPM 156 is still busy, busy, busy!!!!