What does your team do during the first few days?

[Aaron Lussier]

Well the way were doing it this year is:

Day 1: Go to BAE to watch live satellite broadcast, then take lunch to think about different aspects of the game, after lunch the entire team gets together in one big room to talk about the simple stuff relating to the game i.e. Wheels or Treads, Shift or no shift and basic chassis designs, we see what needs to be done to score points and then decide roughly what we want our robot to do, then we split in to groups to go in to deeper designs, grabbers, pincher lifters, launcher.. whatever

Day 2 - Day 5: The teams design the specific robot that they think will be the best robot for the job, each part is brought before a committee of engineers and veteran students to see if with what drafting hours we have and what machine shop hours we have, they ask will we be able to do this under budget.

Day 6: The designs that passed are brought before the entire team,only new student can make the presentations of there teams robot, then the team votes on the best parts of all designs and puts them together

Day 7- Shipping: Draw all parts, make all parts, make all parts fit, wire, and hopefully test.