Jonah B. - OwlBot Programmer - Grade 8
Until today the OwlBots have been divided into 3 groups of programmers. Each "mini team" built their own robot and programmed a few missions for their robot to complete. Today all three robots were thoroughly reviewed and judged on their performance. Two of the three robots performed very well. Winston's and Darius' robot was sensor based and focused on the harder missions, while Anthony's and JD's robot was rotation based and did the easier missions. Both robots had many pros and cons, but in the end we decided to go with Winston and Darius' robot with some of Anthony and JD's attachments, thus making the new robot capable of both easy and hard missions.
From there we proceeded to dissasemble the old robots and start copying the new one, so that we could have multiple copies of it for backup and so people could work on different missions at the same time. We are now unifying our efforts and moving towards the same idea. We now look towards the competition with more confidence, because we are that much closer to our goal of building a winning robot.
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