Week 4: Dancing the Week Away!

Hello Dearies! Welcome back to the blog! It is officially the end of Week 4!! As everyone knows, Week 4 gets pretty rough, the way we combat that is with dancing! If you check out our vlog (hint hint go watch the vlog!) you'll just how much dancing we've done! Though we dance a lot, we work even more! Soooo let's get to the week recap!

Building

• We are almost finished with our practice bot!!!!
  • The ENTIRE drive train/climber is finished and we are now working on the competition bot frame!
  • The hatch mechanism is mounted!
  • We decided that one mechanism is not a good idea
  • Sooooooooo back to the two mechanisms!
  • We did a lot of work on the cargo mechanism and made a lot of changed
• The hatch now has limit switches and is being wired!
• The climber lead screw has been cut down and we are figuring out the best way to wire it
• We also realized that the cargo mechanism was too big for the max frame perimeter so we worked a lot on CAD to cut it down.
  • it is now half the size... woooo week 4
• We are wiring babbyyyyyyyy
• even more x-carving... we never stop

Chairman's/Awards/Scouting
The Chairman's girls worked suuuuuper hard this week! They have did amazing work with scripting out the presentation, figuring out important topics, and dividing the points between the girls. They edited the essay. And edited. And edited some more.... and guess what. THEY FINISHED THE ESSAY AND SUBMITTED IT! WE ARE OFFICIALLY ELIGIBLE TO COMPETE FOR CHAIRMANS! We are so so proud of these girls and are so thankful for everything they've done to get ready for this. 
Our Business Plan have also been underway this week! We are currently in the editing process of our business plan and hope to have most of it down by the end of this week! Thanks to Kristen for making it look GORGEOUS
For Scouting, the grind never ends! Our Scout Master, Liz has been working on new more user-friendly scouting sheets. We are sticking with our paper handouts this year because it is very successful for our team and are using more visual aids to help the freshmen scout! 

Programming
And since I can never do K-Dawg justice her she is again:
"This week, the programmers finally got their hands on the robot! The sophomores and freshmen designed, built, and mounted an electronics panel (it has two levels, is very fancy, and has been named Jimmy John due to its sandwich-like appearance). They also wrote code for the robot’s main mechanism controls. The junior and senior programmers continued to work on vision processing and spent approximately four hours mounting retroreflective tape (special shoutout to any other poor souls who spent their Saturday trying to angle tape at ~precisely~ 14.5 degrees). They also wrote code for some of the processes that our team will be automating during the season, such as the endgame climb and a few specific positions for the cargo and hatch mechanisms."

So that is all for Week 4! We sadly had two days where we weren't allowed to be in shop, but we still made some amazing strides towards the end of this build season! As they say in Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again! See you in Week 5!

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