Well it sounds like the at home challenges are over. Scores are in and we can all relax.
So let’s all share what we thought was awesome this week.
For me - idk. It’s been a stressful week but I think we’ve come out of it with a plan forward. (I’m being vague on purpose. But this is good and hopefully the start of resolving some issues they’ve been a thing since this thread started.)
The weather in New England has taken a turn for the better, so I was able to play some disc golf yesterday after we submitted our IR@H scores.
More and more people I know are getting vaccinated.
And our team did well in our group and is excited to take on the next projects!
Honestly the best week I’ve had in a while 
My bout of LMS (Low Motivation Syndrome) is almost over… I think.
I’ve surfed 3 days this week (spring break).
IR@H is over.
Update: almost forgot I went to that Angels v White Sox game Easter Sunday. It was a doozy!
IR@H is done!
We finished 3rd in our group, which we are really happy with considering #1 and #2 were 118 and 5460.
Finished 8th in our IR@H group
Started work on reorganizing our storage space into a more useful configuration and making parts easier to find and get at
Got dose 1 of the moderna vaccine
Got a “Back to Shop” date set (May 8th)
Got considered “vaccinated” by the CDC and went to see a movie in a theater to celebrate.
Been a good week.
Finished 6th in Bromine, and started a 3-week break from robotics.
Dropped my girlfriend off for her first Pfizer shot!
Submitted IR@H, marked off one month left until a rough junior year ends (not really but once AP testing is over its basically all over), and the team has started ordering some parts to for next year. Began my 30 week break from CheifDelphi, see you then .
I now have more Covid Vaccine doses in me than the average toaster!
Also, tonight is my dance concert! And I finished a 6 hour exam this morning!
Currently on hour 7.5 of “hip to be square” playing on repeat just to spite a friend. It’s played through the exam, and online class, and an entire dance workshop. Goal is to get to 12 hours!
“Carl, are you alright?”
“Who care’s, if this isn’t alright I’m still having a blast”
I signed the lease on a new apartment! I’ll have the bottom floor of a duplex with my own yard (one step closer to getting a dog!), and I’ll have my own place with no roommates for the first time. It’s also right next to a bunch of parks and open space preserves, not much farther from work than where I am now, and I have two weeks of overlap between leases which should make moving less stressful.
Finally, Finally, Finally got my Tech Lead at work to assist me with cleanup of all the 2+ year old tickets from the previous iteration of our team that have long since been abandoned in our product backlog. (Reduced Backlog from 303 to 95) !!! I’m SO Happy!!!
We didn’t submit all our skills runs due to a bunch of issues on the days we were aiming to do them, ranging from NEOs smoking up and our sparks destroying the CANbus to our balls absorbing too much water as a consequence of wind blowing rain into the last-minute covered area we found near our space, meaning they would barely shoot at all. That being said, we still built a really solid robot this year, especially with covid, and I’m super proud of what we managed to pull off.
And one of our students, Jonathan, is moving on as a Deans List Semi Finalist, couldn’t be more proud of the entire team!
School admin struck down our plan to go to the texas cup this summer. Super bummed but we are planning on challenging the decision. We will see how it goes.
Tromio*
I’m personally a fan of OWIO as it’s OMIO flipped on its head.
Oh yeah, one of our kiddos got dean’s list semifinalist, and I’m so proud of him. I stayed up until 6 writing his essay, so it was really satisfying to see him get some recognition for everything he’s done for our program
