Today was a day of practice and preparation for the competition that starts tomorrow. They have a great setup where every 4 teams has a practice table to themselves. And we were sharing our practice table with 3 teams from China who didn’t show up for the day. That gave us the practice table for the entire day.
We ran the yellow and it scored a 400, then we ran the grey robot and it had some serious “pulling to the left” problems. Then we ran the blue robot and it scored a 400. We basically spent the entire day working on getting the gray robot working and doing demos for the folks who wanted to see the all-in-mission run. The kids did a great job, the format was very similar to what we did at BAE and Rockwell.
Everyone is expecting us to run 400’s every mission. That scares me, but I hope we can do it. I saw several other teams score 400s during their practice rounds, so it won’t be easy.
The kids have made quite a few friends with kids from other teams. One young man told me tonight that they really like our team because we were “nice”.
So, continue with your prayers, we all need them. In case you can’t find them, here’s the schedule for tomorrow:
Saturday: 11:24 Bodo time - Research Presentation.
Saturday: 12:15 Bodo time – Table match 1, Table 3A
Saturday: 1:40 pm Bodo time – Technical judging
Saturday: 2:20 pm Bodo time – Table match 2, Table 1A
Sunday: 9:00 Bodo time – Teamwork judging
Sunday 10:50 Bodo time – Table match 3, Table 2A
The final rounds will run starting at 12:30 pm Bodo time. So make sure to get up early and watch us run at 6:30 am Nashua time!
Randy
