Clean Sweep
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For the 2009-2010 VEX Robotics Competition we will be playing Clean Sweep. The roboteers will be in groups of 4-5 building VEX Robots to compete against other teams. Our first competion is December 5, 2009.
Schedule
- Week 1 - September 23
- Righty tighty Lefty Loosey an introduction to VEX robotics, parts and beginning assembly instruction. We will see and drive some robots, go over the major parts, look at all the mechanical parts and get basic assembly instruction.
- Week 2 - September 30
- Drive train Part 1 what is a drive train, what kind of drive trains are their, which ones are best for our robot. We will begin building a number of different drive bases to practice with
- Week 3 - October 7
- Drive train Part 2 more on drive trains and a chance to finish our robots.
- Week 4 - October 14
- Grippers and grabbers now that our drive trains are done, it's time to think about how to grab and move items (like the balls in Clean Sweep.) We will be building a simple gripper to practice with.
- Week 5 - October 21
- Lifters to score points in most games you need to move balls and cubes up off the floor. We will be looking at different lifters and how they can be used.
- Week 6 - October 28
- Build Night Our first 100% build night creating our new robot
- Week One of programmer training. For students interested in programming we will start programmer training for the next three sessions. You will need a laptop!
- Week 7 - November 4
- Build Night
- Week Two of programmer training
- Week 8 - November 11
- Build Night
- Week Three of programmer training
- Week 9 - November 18
- Build Night
- November 25
- Off for Thanksgiving Break
- Week 10 - December 2
- Lets get ready for our first competition! We will be completing our robots and packing up for our first event of the year at Penn State Abington.
- December 5
- Competition
- Week 11 - December 9
- Lessons learned we will go over what we learned and discuss how we can improve our robots.
- December 16
- Optional Build Night With the large number of holiday activities this is an optional build night. The building will be open but we expect attendance will be light.
- December 23
- Off for the Holiday Break we are off until January 6. We start the second half of our season when we come back!
