WEEK 1 • January 7th, 2019

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THE ROBO REMEDY

REPORTER THE SEASON BEGINS!

The 2019 Challenge

“Destination: Deep Space” is an interesting

concept that brought many questions to our

minds. Is the field going to look like a planet?

Does it have anything to do with spaceships?

Well, last weekend we finally found out what it

was about. There is a cargo ship in the middle of

the field, and two rockets on each side of the field.

Each alliance has half of the field, and only one

robot can cross to the other alliance’s side to play

defense. Our goal is to score the most points by

throwing cargo into rockets and the cargo ship,

putting on hatches, and leaving/returning to

different levels on the habitat. However, we need

to be careful because if we throw in cargo without

a hatch patch, it will fall out after 15 seconds.

More information can be found on the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mew6G_og-

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Students from the Marketing Section.

Students anxiously waiting for the challenge to be released.

And this year’s challenge is... The 2019 Season Kickoff

Last Saturday, the long-awaited moment of the

new season finally happened. All the

Lakeshore Robotics teams were at Valders

High School to watch the moment when the

challenge for this season was revealed. We first

arrived there around 8:30 am, and we waited

impatiently (although many of us still don’t

know how) until 9:30 am, when the challenge

video was finally released. Many of us were

really surprised as there was no water

challenge (maybe next year☺).

Following the video, each team went to a

different room and read through the 125-page

game season manual, which, being honest, was

not the most exciting part of the day. Following

lunch, all the teams shared their ideas on the

rules. Then once again, we were split up to

debate strategies.

After almost 4 hours of brainstorming, we came

up with multiple ideas, which we would talk

more about on Sunday.

The upcoming week is the first, and most crucial

one, as having a strong beginning is the basis for

success throughout the season.

Students working through the game season manual.

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Brainstorming Begins

We spent the entire day working on different ideas for

our robot, as you can see in the pictures. We also

decided what we are going to be doing for this season

by using the hatch panels and balls that we were given.

Throughout the day, we put ideas together and worked

on them with K’NEX (the plastic pieces seen in the

pictures). We ended up with two ideas. One design

focused on using an arm to pick up the hatches and

cargo. The other design used a pendulum and track for

the hatches. We had a vote to choose which idea we

would pursue. In the end, the idea for the arm was the

victor. After two full days of throwing around ideas, we

finally found the direction we needed to take in order

to build our robot.