MeetingJune10

=Meeting 1=

We had our first meeting of the pre-season on Friday June 10.

Who was there:
 * Bonnie
 * Charlotte
 * Garrett
 * Jason (our newest and youngest member, also Bonnie's little brother)
 * Peyton
 * Noah
 * Coach Karima and Coach Florian
 * Evan couldn't make it...

What we did:
 * 1) Go over some things we learned from last season
 * 2) Talked about of any technological progress builds on what others have done before us. Bottom line: learn from others!
 * 3) Talk about the theme for the 2011 FLL season (Food Safety)
 * 4) Had fun playing with LEGO:
 * 5) Bonnie and Charlotte learned the basics of line following and programmed the 5-minute-bot to do so! We got stuck on how to stop (next meeting).
 * 6) Jason worked on building a catapult (it worked, it fired lego pieces from one side of the table to the other), next is mounting it on the robot!
 * 7) Garrett work with lego pneumatic elements to build a cool catching mechanism.
 * 8) Noah worked on a robot chassis and programmed it
 * 9) Peyton also worked on a robot base and started programming it

Home work for next week:
 * Learn from others, so watch videos of teams that achieved 400 points in previous years and post what you find on the wiki.