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16
Mar
26

Our First goBILDA Kit!

Our team has been meeting for 5 weeks. Today, our team learned how to set up a canopy, which resulted in lots of giggles from everyone. We just received our very first goBILDA kit, too, and to celebrate this, we also started filming our first YouTube video!

Setting Up the Canopy: Today, our canopy was also ready to be set up. We decided that it would be best if many people did it at once, and chaos erupted. On each end, we had a partner helping us push up the canopy. Eliana was in the middle, and she pushed up the middle. Together (amid the chaos and laughter), we got the canopy up and about, and so it was time for the walls. Same situation; chaos and laughter. The taller the people, the more they had to work! Many of us were tall, though, and we managed to successfully get the canopy, walls, and all, up. Finally, we set up the table, and it was time for us to pick a tablecloth. We picked the tight-fitting design so that it would look ~PROFESSIONAL~ and amazing.

Unboxing the Kit: This was hard. We kept laughing at the slightest of things while recording! For example, if Mrunali stared at Ishanvi or Eliana too hard, they would burst out in laughter, and we would have to re-film the clip!

09
Mar
26

Our Team Identity

Our team has been meeting for 4 weeks. We wanted a strong foundation for our team to grow. Our focus has been creating a team identity that matched our goals.

Picking a team name: This was hard. There are so many San Diego teams and finding something that would be different and still match our goals. Everyone in our team was just writing names on the board. Then it was crossing off ideas that wouldn't fit our team identity. We ended up with 3 names and had time to think them through, even asking our parents for their input. In the end we are team UNDEFINED. It's perfect since we have no idea where this team is going to go.

Picking team colors: Same problem, so many teams. How do we stand out in a crowd? Mrunali was throwing colors out there that the boys on the team didn't even know. It was funny looking up color palettes to explain what she was talking about. In the end we went LOUD. Mint green and pink, there is no way that isn't standing out. And surprise this is one of the San Diego Padre's uniform colors. This is a good way to represent the region without the extra work.

06/01/26 - The Blueprint Era (Plus a Full Team Photo!)

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Mechanical Team - We split up with Arjun and I doing research to find a mechanism to place our pollen into the correct spot. While Mrunali, Leen, Masha, and a new member, Srijan, worked to improve and iterate on our designs. Arjun and I drew detailed blueprints of our robot in both Side and Front views to scale allowing for later CAD operations. We came up with a conveyor/Waterwheel idea for a pick and place objective for FIRST CANOPY season, it could either be a Pick and Place or a shooter oriented game, but shooter was unlikely because that was the objective last year.

Programming Team - During this week, the programming sub-team was very productive. The programming leader of Team Genesis, Hank, gave us a tutorial of how to set up our Driver Hub, connecting it to the Wi-Fi and to our computers so we could test out some code. He taught us how to code some basic tasks, such as finding yaw, pitch, and roll. We went over our progress on tasks, and even though we hit a few hiccups, we have a plan for moving forward and plan to meet online to review our work. We were also able to make some more progress on our tasks. Overall, we got a lot done and are feeling more prepared than ever! 

Business Team - We continued working on our thank you presentation today. It’s the main priority so we will keep working on it so we can get some work in! We decided who should say what part of our presentation. We also finally got a full team photo today! (Check the Thumbnail to see it!)

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