Today team 7843B worked on their scissor lift and their chassis. A group member worked on the scissor lift with a dad in the 7843B group. The other two people worked on the chassis. The Scissor lift was almost completed with only a few more layers to be added. The chassis was practically completed because we didn't have any omni-wheels like the original idea was.
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Today was, unfortunately, our last business meeting before our summer break/end of school. To make it special we did four fun and different activities that were unlike any game we have played before. We were building a tall tower mostly out of newspaper so you would have to make a structure that was stable, putting small plastic cupcakes in a tray with a grabber, going across an area with a blindfold without stepping on the clumps of tape, and putting a small piece of candy on the other side of a table using certain materials. Our three VEX teams will each meet five days in a row over the next few weeks to get a good start on their Skyrise robots. Our first camp started yesterday. The team decided they would build a prototype of a telescoping linear lift. Thank you to VEX Team #143 from Pembrooke Academy for posting a video of their prototype, because we are using their arm as a guide to build from. See their youtube video.
They also decided to build a prototype of an X drive. Our inspiration was a video published by VEX team #750B from South Brunswick, NJ. We thank them for their video on their omni wheel X drive, which you can find here. We met on May 27th at the Pinn Center to start building our new designs for our SeaPerch vehicles. Each team came up a new design based on engineering principles the kids have been learning over the winter and spring. The first step is building the SeaPerch structure which must be plastic. We used plastic piping of different sizes.
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