Wednesday 10/23/2017

Wednesday 10/23/2017
- In today class, we started by getting our robots together and continued competing with each other to find out what team going to win this competition for extra credit.
- We had a little of problem at the beginning because we needed to finish assembling our robot from last class. We had problem with one of the motor, it did not work. That caused us reassembling some parts to replace the old motor.
- Finally, we finished our robot with the help of our professor in running program for our robot. We had chance to enter the competition with other teams. It was so much fun, and helpful for our major.
- We were behind other teams around 6-8 points because we could not join the competition in last class. So today was the chance for us to start catching up.
- Our robot's name is TRANSCHILD that was the name professor Mason named our robot :D.

- We were able to collect some first points in the first competition which was going around the field with fastest. 
- Next competition was using the clamp to grab bottle, and it also took us a little of time to make the clamp works.

- By finishing in top 2 for couple of times, we gained some more points, and caught up the first 3 teams.


- Final competition for the day was coding the robot so it would be able to run automatically without using the control. 
- We were really good at the first time, and it was also our first trial running it. We got the first place in first round. 
- Second round, the other team was got perfect run, and our group were second in this 2nd round. 
Both round with 1st and 2nd place, and that boosted us into the 2nd place overall of the entire class. 
That was really an award for our hard work. 
Overall, I love this activity again !!! So much new things to learn and these things we learned in couple of classes were really awesome. 
Thank you professor Mason again. ! 

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