St Marys Mindstorm Masters

Wednesday Night 11-05-2014

Scheduling
Next Week will also be a regular week (Mon &

Wed)
Our competition is 10 classes away!!

The Official Stuff

The Challenge Handbook

The Topic Guide

Oct 24 Updates no new updates this past week
I am creating a document that has the rules and

updates for each member. This will be posted to

our website.

Core Values
We are a team.
We do the work to find solutions with guidance from

our Coaches and Mentors.

We know our Coaches and Mentors dont have all the
answers; we learn together.
We honor the spirit of friendly competition.
What we discover is more important than what we
win.
We share our experiences with others.
We display Gracious Professionalism and
Coopertition in everything we do.
We have fun

From our last class

We reviewed Color Sensor functionality and our

testing results
We continue to build a team identity: Name & Chant
We performed a quick demonstration of how the Color
Sensor works with a program that was made a series
of nested switch loops
Standardized Thing #1 & Thing #2 with Color Sensors
mounted on the RIGHT side of the robot, connected
to port #3
We discussed competition judging and review the 3
rubrics that will be used to score each team. We
discussed how we can use the Rubrics to make sure
that our presentations cover the right material that the
judges will be looking for.
Tournament Practice session where we were able to
execute 6 missions in the 2 minute allotted time

Some Programming Reminders:

Both partners should be writing their own programs

and testing different ways to solve the mission.

Save your programs under your own profile.
Program name should end with your initials. Door
CL
Program name should be relatively short and reflect
the mission
Consider executing a mission with a power setting of
50%-75%
If the return to base leg of the mission is relatively
simple, consider increasing the speed to 75%-100%
WORK TOGETHER! Several missions are quite

Tonights Plan:
Continue building our team identity

Discuss our Tournament Rehearsal

Finish our discussion on Judging and Scoring
Standardize Programs loaded on each robot
Attachment Planning

Our Team Identity

Team Name: St Marys Mindstorm Masters

Team Chant: ????

Mascot/Logo:
Uniforms:
Accessories:

Lessons Learned about our

Tournament Rehearsals
What went well?

What was difficult?

How can we can make things a little easier?

Judging
We will be judged in 3 different areas:
Core Values
Project Work
Robot Design

Robot Competition scoring will be handled

separately
Static Document
Web based application

Attachment Planning
Lessons learned to date

What missions need attachments & what type of

attachments
Some Inspiration
http://youtu.be/fuY_b2Gwv34
http://youtu.be/KeuRybNbouA

World Class Learning

What we like to Learn

How we have learned

Mobile Technology

Commercials and
YouTube videos

Legacy Lego Robots

Websites and YouTube

videos

Computer Hardware
Assembly

YouTube videos

Virtual Reality

YouTube and Vlogs

Video Gaming
Techniques

Websites and YouTube

videos

Mother Boards

YouTube & Vimeo

videos

Better ways to learn

World Class Learning

What we want to Learn

How we want to acquire this new

skill or knowledge

How to use 3D printing for artificial

limbs

College, higher education

Tanks military hardware

Engineering, college

Flying an airplane

Lessons, flight simulators,

Martial Arts

Classes,

Exoskeleton suits

Practice

Ride a motorcycle

Class

How to build a computer

Apprenticeship

World Class Learning

Population to Assist

New skill or knowledge

Licensed Drivers

Distracted Driving

Elderly

Reading with poor eye sight

3rd World hunger

Reallocate food supply eliminate

waste

Military

Remove physical risk

Teenagers

Communication

Outstanding Tasks
Re-visit Adamss attachment to simplify

installation and removal

Install correct (newly ordered) connectors in robot
#2

Project Planning & Timeline

Class

Planned Work

Accomplishments

Oct Mon 20

Engagement, Reverse Engineering,

Remote Communication

Completed Open Door, Apprenticeship & Changing

Condition, Initial build of 2nd robot

Oct Wed 22

Engagement, Reverse Engineering,

Remote Communication

Oct Mon 27

Engagement, Reverse Engineering,

Remote Communication. Update
Robot #2

Robot Name: Thing #1 & Thing #2

Oct Wed 29

Engagement, Reverse Engineering,

Remote Communication. Update
Robot #2, Color & Light Sensor
testing

Color & Light Sensor testing we have decided to

use the Color Sensor instead of the light sensor.
Thing #2 corrected so that it is tracking straight,
there was an issue with the rear slides

Mon Nov 03

Engagement, Reverse Engineering,

Remote Communication. Update
Robot #2, Color & Light Sensor
testing

Wed Nov 05
Mon Nov 10
Wed Nov 12

Project Planning & Timeline

Class

Planned Work

Mon Nov 17
Wed Nov 19
Mon Nov 24
Wed Nov 26
Mon Dec 01
Wed Dec 03

Mon Dec 08

Competition Rehearsal

Wed Dec 10

Competition Rehearsal

Accomplishments