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Overall Progress Our teams have worked very hard for this competition and gave it their all. Sadly, we were unable to make it in the top ten this time. However we were able to learn many things from this competition. First, the issue with the ROBOTC program has been discovered; it was incompatible with the VexNet competition system itself. This was the cause for most of the robots to stop working in the middle. Second was that the new members were able to experience working under pressure. Everybody worked to their fullest to test and fix their robot during the competition. All in all, we still won some awards (shown in picture below), such as the sportsmanship award!! Now that the competitions are done, our club is going to plan out mini events to exercise everyone's robotics skills. Easy C will replace all the programming softwares and will be taught to the programmers and builders will hopefully be able to practice designing and fast-paced building. Team 4091S Robot Name: KIS High 1
Team 4091K Robot Name: KIS High 3
Team 4091V Robot Name: Machina
Building Progress Team Machina (90% Complete) Game Plan: The robot of team Machina was designed to target the stars specifically. The team is confident that the claw can hold more than one star and will be testing it soon. If possible, the team will also aim for cubes as well.
Everything is finished along with the programming. A few tweaks and checkups will be required on the final week before the tournament. With such a diverse team of unique personalities, all of our teammembers are brought together by their common interest in robotics. In an effort to discover what about robotics drew each of our members to it, we asked this simple question: what is your favorite thing about robotics? The reponses certainly prove that robotics isn't just about engineering and computer science, but there are many things behind-the-scenes that make this "interdisciplinarity" meaningful. What is your favorite thing about robotics?
A week and a half later after the Chadwick Scrimmage, the KIS VEX teams are have once again settled into the steady cadence of busy building days, tweaking and refining their robots for the upcoming national tournament. The first placing team 4091V (fourth in the preliminaries) decided to shift their design by flipping around the structure of an arm. The 4091K team also made some changes regarding the design and structure of their robot, but are still formulating some crucial gameplay tactics. The other teams are focused on finishing their robot that has an arm similar to 4091V's motor combination. The main importance that many teams found is that the gear ratios must be small to big in order to get more power. A KIS High School team was able to win first place in the Vex robotics scrimmage in Chadwick International School in South Korea. In the competition the team placed fourth, however, during the finals the KIS team was chosen as an alliance and was able to make it to the finals. Armed with a stable autonomous, the KIS team was able to secure all the autonomous wins. The gameplay of the two allied teams were incredible as their teamwork not only scored many points, but blocked the opponents from scoring as well. |
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