pic: Exploding Tick Tigers

[wendymom]

Originally Posted by techtiger1

I will say that the collaboration went really well although as always there was a few set backs. Through our organizational/veteran skills 1902 and 1251 both sat down along with 408 to agree on this design. Meetings were held via video sometimes and in person as the inventor specialists went through each system of the robot mechanically the kids got a chance to ask questions, design on the fly and suggest improvements/ ideas. The teams held multiple conference calls to see what the status of parts, designs, and software where. JVN has a great spreadsheet on balancing deign issues and priorities as well which was referenced too. In short it is a large undertaking to make sure everyone has input on the design and I think everyone is happy with it.

Thanks for your comments on the robots,
Drew

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The other really cool thing was how all three teams ended up working together all weekend at our mentors house. We basically had a huge 3 day slumber party (and you know bacon doesn't sleep) with kids from all three teams working together to get all three machines done. It was hard work, but a lot of fun