Robot Game Missions - What are you supposed to do

Missions Rules - Written rules with pictures (scroll down to view)
Full Mission Video - Individual mission links below

M01. SHARK-TRANSPORT
M02. SERVICE DOG
M03. ANIMAL CONSERVATION
M04. FEEDING
M05. BIOMIMICRY
M06. MILKING AUTOMATION
M07. PANDA RELEASE
M08. CAMERA RECOVERY
M09. TRAINING AND RESEARCH
M10. BEE KEEPING
M11. PROSTHESIS
M12. SEAL
M13. MILK IN BASE
M14. MILK ON THE RAMP
M15. MANURE
PENALTIES

Build Your Board Knowledge - Digital Score Sheet

Check out this digital score sheet for our TrashTrek challenges.  In addition to helping us score our practice rounds, this tool can help you develop a strategy for the competition.  

This scoresheet is also linked on in the "Useful Links" section of the blog.

Focus Your Design: Read Challenge Descriptions

Understanding the competition challenges is one of the best ways our team can prepare to compete against other teams.  This allows us to focus our robot building and program design.

Check out the Robot Game Missions PDF (linked right also) for some of the most useful information.

Check out what it says about reading the important challenge info:

Page 1 of Robot Game Missions PDF

Challenges - Video

EV3: Get to know some of the new features

Take a moment to get to know a little about what is available on the new EV3 robots.  As you learn more about the different challenges, be thinking about how we might use some of these sensors and motors to solve our problems.  

Our team has access to 2 EV3 robots each with 4 large servos, 1 medium servo and all the sensors you see picture here.

What does a Robotics Competition Look Like?

Begin with the end in mind.  This is one important idea to keep in mind when designing anything.

The activities in our first meeting of robotics were meant to help you to understand one of our goals as a team: create a robot to complete a set of tasks that earn points for our team.

As a beginner, watching clips from a competition can help you get an idea of what we will be doing.  Check out the first part of the video below or find a video you think will be helpful to the team.  To share your video, paste a link into the comments of this post.

Video of an FLL Robotics Competition from 2010

First Lego League Challenge for 2012

Take a  look at this year's mission. It's called Senior Solutions. Please watch the video by the first official full meeting--not the lunch meeting. Of course, you can watch it earlier if you want.

In comments, provide links to other good videos and resources which may be of help as we start thinking about how we will design our robots to compete in this year's challenge.

The official web page with detailed instructions for this mission can be found here.

 Please fill out this form and bring it to Mr. F or Mr. S. 

 Copy of Overview Letter handed out at first meeting here.

Build Instructions for Challenge Table here.

Thanks, and welcome to MS Robotics!