The first week of build season was an exciting and productive week. Here is what we accomplished:
We watched the Kick-Off simulcast, inventoried the kit of parts, and started brainstorming strategy and design ideas. We spent time looking over the rules and establishing our priorities for the game. We decided that climbing the pyramid would be our main priority, and scoring the frisbees would be second. We then moved on to concepts of how to approach raising the bot to the top of the pyramid. After looking at different designs and weighing the pros and cons of each of them, a single design was decided on. Next, the team started adding dimensions to drawings of the bot. While the Mechanical and Design departments were hard at work, Programming has completed its training and we are awaiting the design team for specifics of the robot. We have been working on autonomous and testing the new tech.
The Marketing department worked on updating our Outreach notebooks, writing grants, transitioning the newsletter to a new format, working on this year's button design, and coordinating fundraising nights for the team at a local Chick-fil-a restaurant. We also put out a button competition for the rest of the team to design this year's "Have You Hugged A Platypi" button. We are interested to see what we get from that contest!
Awards department was busy this week as well. For the Chairman's award, they read past years entries and talked about a timeline for when they want the essay completed. They also worked with the two new underclassmen that will help write this year’s Chairman's essay. The Woodie Flowers award has been started and will be completed by the end of week three. The Entrepreneurship Award subgroup met Saturday and went through as much of the Business Plan as they could and talked about things they could add to make us stand out. The group working on Engineering Inspiration award looked through what was put together last year, how it could be improved, and what else we want to include for this year.
The team worked hard last week designing, training, planning, and preparing for award submittals. We are all incredibly busy but we love what we're doing!
Brainstorming after kick-off
