Completing a detailed game analysis is one way to implement this step in your notebook. This is because the game itself is the problem you need to solve by creating a robot. In addition, picking important/relevant information from the game manual can also be a part of this step as this can set up your team's criteria and constraints. Lastly, having a plan for your game strategy can be helpful during this step as this sets up the robot's design. The strategy greatly impacts your design.

This step can be identified by a demonstration of each members brainstorm or idea prior to having any knowledge about specific mechanisms. One way to address this step within the notebook is by requiring each team member to individually develop a robot or subsystem design. This will demonstrate an understanding for this step, as it will represent how each member was able to thoroughly understand the game and create a design to address it. 

In order to demonstrate a clear understanding for step 3, your team can conduct thorough research on different mechanisms. This can be accomplished by visiting various different websites/sources. To represent this within the notebook, your team can include sketches, pictures, and information about the different mechanisms. However, when completing this step, your team should also make sure to correctly site the sources you used and make sure that their information is accurate and reliable.

Develop Ideas, or Step 4 in the Engineering Design Process, is a step where you create several ideas from all the research you have did/learned alongside your team. There are multiple ways you can implement this step into your notebook. Each teammate can individually come up with 1 idea (or more)  that consists of a fully developed robot which corresponds to the game. A potential idea to format this could be a tri-fold that describes the 3 subsystems in your design, the chassis, lift, and object manipulator. Another way is a big, detailed robot sketch that shows all the mechanisms. It is crucial to be specific in this step so labeling everything as you go will be beneficial to yourself and everyone viewing this possible idea. 

After all of your teammates develop their ideas from the previous step, your team now has to choose which design to build. Most of the times, decision matrices are used to have a clear view of each design's subsystem's strengths and weaknesses when viewed under a certain  category. Decision matrices are tables that choose the best idea by the amounts of points given in different categories. The idea with the highest amount of points total is chosen.

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After choosing the best idea, your team can now start building! This is when your team works together to build a robot based of of the chosen design. This is recorded in the notebook through daily logs. Daily logs usually follow the format of goals, problems, solutions, progress, and next steps. Having daily logs allows the judges to see how your team built the robot competing. Daily logs also allow your team to reference past ones to see if a similar problem may bring a solution.

By creating test tables and logging information, this step can be represented in your teams notebook. This is because by creating tables with categories that your team considers important, it will be easy to evaluate which mechanisms, pieces, etc... are working correctly, and which ones still need improvements. This step goes hand-in-hand with step 8, Make Improvements, for this reason. 

After testing and evalutating, your team can see what needs to be improved. This can be shown in the notebook through daily logs, similar to step 6, except referencing the data from testing and evaluating.

Step 9, Communicate Results, is a step in which teams are able to demonstrate the process that they went through in order to develop their robot design. Uniquely, each team follows the same design process, however, the steps that are redone and refined differentiate between every team. This makes this step special as each team is able to clearly show their own process. This step can be implemented into your notebook by attending various tournaments and creating tournament analysis' for them. This is because the results from tournaments will allow your team to see how well your process worked, and will also allow judges and other teams to see how well your team does when competing.