St Marys Mindstorm Masters

Monday Night 10-27-2014

Scheduling
This Week will be following our regular schedule,

Monday & Wednesday evenings 6 PM 8 PM

Next Week will also be a regular week
Our competition is 13 classes away!!

The Official Stuff

The Challenge Handbook

The Topic Guide

Oct 24 Updates
I am creating a document that has the rules and

updates for each member. This will be posted to

our website.

Core Values
We are a team.
We do the work to find solutions with guidance from

our Coaches and Mentors.

We know our Coaches and Mentors dont have all the
answers; we learn together.
We honor the spirit of friendly competition.
What we discover is more important than what we
win.
We share our experiences with others.
We display Gracious Professionalism and
Coopertition in everything we do.
We have fun

Our Robots: Thing # 1 and Thing #2

Our Robots have been named!!

Reminder: no one can alter the design without a

discussion involving the whole team.

Final modifications to Thing #2

Some Programming Reminders:

Both partners should be writing their own programs

and testing different ways to solve the mission.

Save your programs under your own profile.
Program name should end with your initials. Door
CL
Program name should be relatively short and reflect
the mission
Consider executing a mission with a power setting of
50%-75%
If the return to base leg of the mission is relatively
simple, consider increasing the speed to 75%-100%
WORK TOGETHER! Several missions are quite

Tonights Plan:
We will spend some time talking about the Research

Project.
Continue to work on our missions started in the
previous class: Engagement, Reverse Engineering
and Remote Communications
We will practice running these 3 programs back to
back tonight
Each partnership will continue to work on their next
assignments (Reverse Engineering, Remote
Communications & Engagement)

World Class Learning

What we like to Learn

How we have learned

Mobile Technology

Commercials and
YouTube videos

Legacy Lego Robots

Websites and YouTube

videos

Computer Hardware
Assembly

YouTube videos

Virtual Reality

YouTube and Vlogs

Video Gaming
Techniques

Websites and YouTube

videos

Mother Boards

YouTube & Vimeo

videos

Better ways to learn

World Class Learning

What we want to Learn

How we want to acquire this new

skill or knowledge

How to use 3D printing for artificial

limbs

College, higher education

Tanks military hardware

Engineering, college

Flying an airplane

Lessons, flight simulators,

Martial Arts

Classes,

Exoskeleton suits

Practice

Ride a motorcycle

Class

How to build a computer

Apprenticeship

World Class Learning

Population to Assist

New skill or knowledge

Licensed Drivers

Distracted Driving

Elderly

Reading with poor eye sight

3rd World hunger

Reallocate food supply eliminate

waste

Military

Remove physical risk

Teenagers

Communication

Outstanding Tasks
Re-visit Adamss attachment to simplify

installation and removal

Install correct (newly ordered) connectors in robot
#2

Project Planning
Class

Planned Work

Accomplishments

Oct Mon 20

Engagement, Reverse Engineering,

Remote Communication

Completed Open Door, Apprenticeship & Changing

Condition, Initial build of 2nd robot

Oct Wed 22

Engagement, Reverse Engineering,

Remote Communication

Oct Mon 27

Engagement, Reverse Engineering,

Remote Communication. Update
Robot #2

Oct Wed 29
Mon Nov 03
Wed Nov 05
Mon Nov 10
Wed Nov 12

Project Planning
Class

Planned Work

Mon Nov 17
Wed Nov 19
Mon Nov 24
Wed Nov 26
Mon Dec 01
Wed Dec 03

Mon Dec 08

Competition Rehearsal

Wed Dec 10

Competition Rehearsal

Accomplishments