OSU

(Mars rover running over part of the Nerd Herd)
The university has inspired my son....Love it!! Hopefully if that is where he wants to go he will work hard and make it there.



FTC was yesterday, with a few changes our bot didn't seem to have as many problems as last week. So we went we battled, we were in 6th place and ended up getting alliances with some teams that we weren't sure about. In elimination round we won one and lost two so we had to wait to see if we were going to get a trophy. We were nominated for four different trophies: Innovate award (think outside the box), PTC Design award (Robot design), Think award (excellent journaling), Inspire award (Truly embodied the challenge). We received the PTC Design award so we will be headed to State later this month! All their hard work paid off.



Highlights of the day:



1)When our bot shot 6 balls into the net on autonomous mode

2)Watching our team work with an alliance to stop the clapper(it had hands and would clap when it got points), a robot with a very simple design but always got mega points because no one thought to dump all the balls out of the tubes so it couldn't get any balls. Way to go Tayler and Aaron, Sydney, Kiley,Kyrie, Annika.

3)Watching Tayler and most of the team get ran over by a big robot that the university had. Prototype mars rover, that the university is working on.

4) Looking at Sid when our team was nominated for many awards, and seeing his thumbs up and smile when they got an award :)

5) Seeing the smile on the kids faces when they won!



Way to go Nerd Herd!





(this is us teamed up with the Clapper. Both robots were malfunctioning; we couldn't shoot....the clapper couldn't dump balls from the tubes, so we worked together to get it done.)