Climate Connections Perfect run 400 points
Technobotts³ Preparation for the UK Final
This year the Technobotts3 FLL team had a fairly successful regional heat, they walked away with two trophies: Robot design award and 2nd place overall. With 280 points they had qualified for the UK finals in Loughborough.
Encouraged by the unreliability of their old robot, the team voted for yet another total redesign. Although this may sound a bit risky, they had also done it two years ago before the finals, to great success.
So it came as no great surprise that the first ever practice run with our new robot achieved a score we were aiming for 400! And here's the video of us getting 400 in only 130 seconds.
Well done !!
(Origional post by NXTBoy)
martyn
This year the Technobotts3 FLL team had a fairly successful regional heat, they walked away with two trophies: Robot design award and 2nd place overall. With 280 points they had qualified for the UK finals in Loughborough.
Encouraged by the unreliability of their old robot, the team voted for yet another total redesign. Although this may sound a bit risky, they had also done it two years ago before the finals, to great success.
So it came as no great surprise that the first ever practice run with our new robot achieved a score we were aiming for 400! And here's the video of us getting 400 in only 130 seconds.
Well done !!
(Origional post by NXTBoy)
martyn
Comments
-Jonathan
BTW, we found the house's resistance to raising to vary significnatly with different field sets. Hopefully they get a good house at their next tournament!
Good luck!
That is amazing! I love how they aligned the arrows! That is definitely how I'd do it if I ever decide to go hassenplug!
~Sidneys1
That's an insult to the kids - how do you know they didn't do this themselves? I know plenty of teams who have done some major design work without any help from adults.
Jim
The thing about most FLL challenges is that they always appear hard at the start. But if you work hard, or are lucky, you have a eureka moment and it suddenly becomes obvious and easy. My team had an easier time with this challenge than the last.
Weird thing about the arrows is how many teams thought this was an "encourage sensor use" mission. Try as I might I have not found a reasonable way to solve the mission that uses sensors.
If you want to make catty comments about peoples accomplishments it would be less cowardly to use your own name.
We found this year to be much tougher on time. I think this the intent on game designers. Too many 400 last year. I also think that will probably be the last year we see the base in the middle of the board.
Good Luck at the tournament, Good Work!.
The kids in the video seem old enough to have done this work all on their own. You really have to give them the benefit of the doubt. Still, "inappropriate FLL adult intervention" is a topic that has rarely if ever been discussed on this blog or accompanying forums.
Therefore I would suggest that future thoughts on this should be made in the FLL General Discussions board in a manner that does not implicate any individual teams.