June 1, 2024

New Base Robot, Game Strategy, T-Shirt Design

Today, only 5 members attended, and the other 3 team members are currently exploring China on the other side of the planet Earth.

New Base Robot

Building upon the discussions from previous weeks and utilizing the Engineering Design Process - Identify, Design, Create, Iterate, Communicate - the team is nearing completion of the new Base Robot. Coach Will shared several insightful ideas and presented the team with a new robot design featuring exciting improvements. Using Stud.io has proven to be helpful in experimenting with different design concepts to make the robot more compact, faster, and sleek.

While the team was enthusiastic about the new design, they also discussed the possibility of adding team names and individual names to the base robot.

Game Strategy

The team continued their creative efforts with mission attachments. Following the sketches provided by Brandon, Daniel, Reina, and Larry last week, Olivia presented her ideas for two mission models today with drawings: the Marine Rescue and the Sonar.

While carefully studying the Submerged map, the team brainstormed possible rules and strategies for the mission models. One major debate was whether to complete multiple missions in one trip instead of only doing one mission per trip, in order to save time and complete missions more efficiently.

Next, the team is divided into three small groups - Reina with Olivia, Brandon with Larry, and Leon with Coach Will - to test out their ideas on the Submerged map. For homework this week, each member will design their game strategy and present it during the next session.

T-Shirt Design

As is the tradition every year, the team needs to design a new team T-Shirt. Coach Julia led the session by guiding the design process. From the theme color to the elements of this year’s ocean theme, the team came up with many imaginative ideas such as water waves, bubbles, fishes, sea turtles, and corals.

Each team member will sketch their own innovative ideas for the new T-shirt and present them in the upcoming sessions. The plan is to finalize the new T-Shirt design in the next two weeks. How exciting!