DEWBOT VII Build

Build season is the heart of the FRC year. It is the 45 days during which the team's students and mentors put their hearts, minds and hands into designing and building a great robot. Paradoxically, the time seems both far too short and much too long.

This page contains a day by day breakdown of what we did. Dates hyper-links go to the corresponding photo gallery.

Kickoff

• On Saturday, January 8^th, team 1640 students, parents and mentors drove to Upper Darby High School on to watch the events from Dean Kamen’s home in New Hampshire, see the objectives of the 2011 game revealed, examine a mock-up of this year’s play pieces up close, and pick up our kit of parts.
• We attended seminars immediately following the Logomotion Kickoff.
• The Team returned to DRC following Kickoff for a read-through of Logomotion's rules.

Week One (1/9-1/15)

Sunday 9-January - Brainstorming

• Siri Maley & Heather McKown inventoried the Kit-of-Parts (nothing missing) - KOP parts laid out for brainstorm "touch & feel".
• Siri Maley, Heather McKown & Clem McKown set up a 1/7^th-scale mock-up field inclufing scale robots, bonus towers & game pieces
• Strategy Brainstorm - well attended by 18 students and 14 mentors - we:

• developed a large number of game-play ideas;
• focus on what, not how;
• consolidated, synthesized and built on ideas as teams;
• presented team ideas;
• simulated the game on the game table (mock-up field) - multiple itterations; and
• consolidated , synthesized & built on ideas as a complete team

Monday 10-January (no photos to speak of)

• FIRSTchoice parts ordered (FTC Kit, Solenoid Kit & Pressure Relief Valve)
• Made key strategic decisions for DEWBOT VII

Tuesday 11-January - Meeting cancelled due to snow storm

DEWBOT VII Week One Build Season Photo Gallery

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