In addition to doing a small food drive before Thanksgiving (a regular project of the team's--if you come to Palmetto, bring some canned goods for the local food bank), 1618's been focusing its efforts on understanding the pneumatics system. It's been a learning experience--to my knowledge, the team has never used pneumatics in competition. (What's worse, 1293 hadn't incorporated pneumatics since 2004. Talk about flying blind!
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