Less than a Month

This past week has been very busy and productive!  Nice work, everyone.  In addition to last Wednesday's meeting we had another garage sale on Saturday along with more building and project work, and another team meeting on Monday.

Where this puts us with just under a month to go is:

Robot: Can accomplish all missions for Zones 1, 2, and 3, for a total of 190 points.  If everything goes smoothly we can get those 90 points with slightly less than a minute to spare, so we can likely add more missions over the next few weeks.  We need, though, to focus on reliability.  That means doing more of what we did yesterday: running missions over and over to find out where things go wrong and improving them, and getting used to setting up and running the robot repeatably.

Project: We've had Hannah's prototype for a few weeks now, and she's gotten some good practice presenting it.  In addition, Nic's made good progress on an Arduino-based version of Hannah's prototype, which if it can work would cost a lot less, use less energy, and be less obvious in a bathroom.

We still need to work on our team presentation, and have been talking about a Phineas and Ferb skit where our project foils the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz and his plan to take over the tri-state area.  Think hard about how we can fit all the information we need to present into that type of skit.

Core Values: With a lot of help from Ella team spirit and teamwork have been really improving.  In fact, I believe there was a coach-free meeting at school to discuss how to organize a book sale. Check Slack to see Ella's suggestions for how to answer judges' questions.  We'll be working on this tomorrow.