Kickoff 2010!!!

Yesterday was the official start of the FIRST Robotics season of 2010! Our travel team, except a couple of the boys, went to NJIT to watch the unveiling of this year's game, Breakaway, along with a bunch of other FIRST teams. The game this year is a spin off of soccer, so having the varsity soccer coach in charge can really come in handy! You can watch the animation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEHAj3EmpMw.


Afterwords, the team jumped in the car and rushed over to the vex competition to cheer on some of the boys - hitting every red light on the way, of course. Unfortunately, by the time we had finally gotten to Summit High School, our team was already eliminated. Still, we stuck around the competition and cheered on the other teams there. Although Robot Club is not associated with VEX, we still walked away from the competition with a lot more experience and ready to start off our season.


Today, our members all went into the school for long day of decision making and getting work done. For the first hour or two, we just sat around and threw out ideas on the robot, did we want to have a kicker or a bully? a bigger robot, or a smaller one? At the end of the day, we were fully prepared for the next six weeks of building our robot.

Stick around and read the rest of our blogs! We will post a new one at least once a week.

-Kate Bryan.