October 24 Meeting

The meeting started with the members handing in homework from the past weeks. Along with the homework, was nominating a patron saint for the team. They had 3 to vote on and the winning one was St. Ambrose the patron of Beekeepers. That is a good choice because their project is about how climate change affects bees and to come up with a solution to help.

Next they experimented with robot to work on the design. They were having problems with attaching a wheel on the back, so it was time to brainstorm. They came up with putting 'skis' on the back.

The only problem was that the weight distribution was off and would tip over, especially when the brakes were applied. So they were attaching pieces to the skis to offset it. Everyone had ideas and each was tested.

They also built attachments that would help complete missions during the competitions. Only a few were tried out, but the main concern was getting the main body of the robot completed.

Here is a test run with weight on the back.