Our robot strategy was to start on the red side and complete all the missions as well as collecting all the krill, reef segments, and water samples with it coming back to home a couple times. Once all missions were completed, we brought all the reef segments, krill, and water samples to the blue side while also completing the research vessel mission, once at the blue side, we collected all krill and water samples on the blue side. Then, we did as many missions as we could by going in a loop on the blue side. We will continue to strategize, code, and modify to save time and add reliability.

We split into red and blue side teams that design and run missions so everyone gets a chance to design, code, and play the robot game. We came up with several ideas to help our code reliability such as gyro Myblocks as well as broadcast messaging

Our robot is modified from the advanced driving base, which has attachment motors on the front and back so we can actuate multiple missions at once. We have 5 attachments.  The one shown here is our 3D flipper, which we use on our 4th run!

Vidu created the original krill dropper prototype.  Then, Levi, Sullivan, and Elizabeth iterated the krill dropper twice. Once by giving it a smaller base, so that it wouldn't run into the whale and it would activate it. The second iteration was to give it a backboard and side bars, so that the krill wouldn't fall off of the platform.  We will continue to iterate the krill dropper until all 5 krill will consistently fall into the whale's mouth.

We had fun this year teaching our sister team, Code Commanders, how to code and run the robot.  We competed with them at this year's Marquette Regional, too! :)