September 26

Today the team worked hard at the Pyramid for the Build-A-Thon. The goal was to use 500 bricks max. They talked and brainstormed to figure out the best way to use all the pieces and have a good structure. Teamwork was key and many things were learned through trial-and-error. After finding solutions to the problems they had and many reassembles, it was

complete!!! 500 bricks!!!! Good Teamwork!!!!!!

After the excitement of the Pyramid building, it was down to business. The RR's discussed which problem to focus on out of a list of local problems. The one they chose was bees. During a hot summer, the flowers are not plentiful and the bees are not able to collect enough nectar to survive the winter and they die from starvation. Now that the problem was decided, they must come up with a solution. In order to do that the team must first learn about bees, so each member has research to do. JackStone will find out how bees survive in the different seasons, Awesome Girl will learn how they make honey, Thomas will find out how hives are built and Builderbot will provide the average temperature of the local area during the summers of last and this year.

Next week the team will be working on controlling and guiding the robot.

Quotes from the Team!!

JackStone said "Today was Awesome!! I can't wait for next week, we start DOING STUFF!!!!"

Builderbot said "We now have a schedule to follow for each week. The 2 things that we did today were pick a topic to find a solution for, and built the pyramid."

Great Job and Remember to have Fun!!!!!!!

September 19th

Well, it was a quiet meeting. With only 2 team members today they worked on the robot tutorials. There were some frustrations as Awesome Girl and Jack Stone could not get the robot to drive in a square. It did parallelograms and triangles but no right angles were happenin' today. Crash Dummy did have a busy day though. She survived several run overs and throw downs .... poor girl. She did do a good job of marking the starting point though!

We finished early and decided next time would be better. Here's a picture of Crash Dummy as no pictures were taken today.

September 12 Meeting

Some very important things happened at today’s meeting. First the team talked about their project, climate, and what things are used for weather. They also got homework, to find out what and how a thermometer, hygrometer and a barometer works.
Then the fun stuff began: working the robot!!!
Hooking the robot up to the computer and figuring out how it works, some experimenting started. Taking turns working different actions, the Rampagers made the robot play sound, move forward and backwards, brake, accelerate, coast and do 360’s(watch videos below!!). Needlessly to say, they had fun and are learning how to operate their robot.

Good Luck and Have lots more fun!!!!!!

Season Kickoff!!!

September 5 was our season kickoff!!!

We now know that the topic for this year is Climate!!!

The team will be doing a Build-A-Thon fundraiser to help with registration fees. The goal is to build a Lego pyramid out of 500 bricks, with sponsors pledging one cent or more per brick. The Build-A-Thon will take place on September 19th and all fundraiser pledges will be due by the Sep. 12th meeting.

The team also recieved a paper with the 19 missions, or mini-tasks, for the robot to complete. They additionally recieved a project sheet talking about the topic Climate.

These is are some of the mini-models that were completed.

Arthur and Edmund worked together to build an Ice Core Sample.(The long white peice in the middle.) Arthur said "It was challenging because all the pieces were white."

Ben's favorite project was "The Elevation House" and said he liked it because "It raised up; a bouncy house!"

Edmund's favorite project of the day "Was building the Storm."

Cortney was starting on a major part of the items needed, the robot.

What a Great Start!!!!