Year 1: Skystone

Competition Locations

Saratoga High School

This was our first competition that we have ever gone to.Here we placed 3rd out of 28 teams. At this competition we learned how the competitions work. We saw a lot of other teams' tables which inspired us to make a poster board too. We also learned about how the semifinals worked and how to present to alliance captains to persuade them to pick us.

Sacred Heart School

Here we placed 17th out of 20 teams. At this competition we learned about the importance of teamwork and strategy. At this competition we didn't have much time to talk to our alliance and make a strategy which resulted in us losing some of our matches.

Micron

At this competition we placed 2nd out of 16 teams. Here we learned about helping others. When we arrived there the practice pit had not been set up and when it was set up it was just mats and blocks. To help other teams we volunteered our tape to tape up the field and our platform to help teams practice their autonomous.

What we learned This Year

Designing

We learned how to CAD model our robot to help us visualize how it will look and work and so we know what parts we need to order. We also learned how to design the robot to fit all of the functions we needed and to keep it in an 18" by 18" by 14" cube. To make parts fit into each other if they didn't naturally do that we learned how to cut pieces to work with each other.

Programming

We started off with learning basic programming concepts and then learnt Java language programming. Then we studied to how to program Robotics hub, different sensors and motors. Then we started putting those together and started writing code to drive the chassis, sense the color, sense the touch. We also learnt how to use webcam and using image processing libraries to identify the sky stones. Then we improved our code using all of that to get a consistent scoring.

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