More to come,

The Epic SHEEP

Check it out:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20111112-NEWS-111120326

Thanks to our sponsors The Frechette Family & Daystar Computer services for making this all possible.

Great job teams!

The teams did great in one of our first public displays of the season. After the presentation a FF parent took me aside and said, “The boys team communicated well while running their missions, and the young lady running missions for the girls team did not fold under pressure when one of the missions did not work. Those are some great teams you have there.”

We are so very proud of the progress the team members have made and can’t wait to see what they can accomplish this week.

Our next public showing of the mission boards will be on November 10th from 5-5:30 for the parents and participants of New Heights. We will be having a few presentations out in the community too, so keep your eyes here for dates and times.

Can’t wait to hand out our stickers at UNH this weekend.

From, The Epic SHEƎP

The event was a lot of fun and as a coach of a Rookie year team it was helpful to be able to ask other coaches questions and talk with some of the team members. I also got some great information about FTC and how to go about starting a high school team. More on that soon.

It was helpful seeing some of the solutions that FLL teams have came up with and being able to see some different robot builds. It’s amazing how so many different designs can complete the same challenges.

Thanks to The PVC Pirates for hosting the event!

This week we have almost completed our trailer that catches bacteria and viruses from the dispencers on the board. The only issue is that it doesn’t turn, so our robot has lot of trouble pulling/pushing it. We have a way to connect things (like our trailer) to our robot using rubber bands. It seem to be simple, and work very well.

We also started programing our robot to hit the lever on the first dispenser that holds the pink bacteria. It has gone very well, but we don’t know if it works as our trailer can’t be moved by the robot.

Next week we will continue to program, build, and fix our trailer. We are looking into a way to build a claw that can pick things up like fish, rats, pizza and ice-cream.                       The last thing we worked on was our  project. We researched problems that could go wrong with our food, Hershey’s Kisses.

More to come.        The Epic Sheep

Update from the Robots of Earth: 

Wednesday

We started to make the base for our robot. We also started with our programming. We made a test program.

We started dividing and subdividing the missions and figured out which ones that we’re going to do. We are doing: Balls, viruses and the good and bad bacteria (sink).  We started the program for the pink bacteria.

Friday

We finished building the main part for the robot.

We were able to start and finish the yellow and blue balls programs. After that, we started our research. Our problem is preservatives, and our food is potato chips.

The Robots of Earth

At Woodman Farm, Evan explained all the varieties of fruit they grow at the facility, and we even got some apples for snack.  YUM!

At the dairy barn, John gave us the chance to pet all the cows at the facility.  We even went into the milking machine.

Finally we toured Holloway Commons from the loading dock, through the coolers, into the kitchen, ending in the dining hall where we enjoyed ALL kinds of food and sugary goodness.  Thank you UNH and we look forward to our next trip!

Watch this time lapse of part of our day and see us moving quickly to prepare for our teams first meeting next week.

Enjoy the read and check back often!

Sean, Jeremy, Wayne and the NHLRBT Members