Charlotte Qualifier Reflection

How we did

• Ranked 10th out of 21 team

• After morning matches

• Ended up being second team chosen on the first seed alliance

• Became the winning Alliance

• Won Motivate Award for sparking STEM interest in the community

• Convinced a judge to attend SumoBots this spring

• Got Baby Bot moving with controller

• Judges came back to talk to us four times

• For all three areas (Programming, Building, and Notebook)

• Once we had the Color Sensor Autonomous working, it was consistently perfect

Problems

• During our final match of the event, we plugged out batteries into one another instead of plugging it into the robot

• Barely lost the match, so had to play a tie-breaker

• Alliance members competed, but their bots also broke

• Hard to grab cubes

• Could not hold them when moving quickly

• Notebook didn’t have a very good Team section, and there was no information on budget, business, or money

Plan for Next time

• Improve Engineering Notebook

• Add Business and Strategy section

• Highlight Outreach efforts

• Add biographies for members

• Get more specific with design for robot

• Include more programming examples

• Redo everything with a theme

• Lord of the Rings, Special Effects, or Wheel Puns

• Rebuild Top of Robot

• Keep base as an x-drive

• Make a conveyor belt system similar to what we had last year

• Replace the Vice-Grip we have currently

• Flesh out Autonomous

• For the first qualifier we had one that parked in the safe zone, for this one we had a program that would knock off the jewel

• Combine the two

• Give Baby Bot an autonomous

Off to state!

-Team 5881

#5881Tungsteel #8190