Build Season Week 3

Written by Ryan Cesiel on January 31, 2011

This past week was not as productive as other weeks because we had exams in school.  Build teams met on their designated days and everyone came on Saturday to build and finalize designs in CAD.

On Thursday night we held another design review to talk about designs, the status of projects, and see what needed to change or be done.  The Marketing & Website team visited Plex Systems Friday afternoon after exams to discuss their marketing strategies and techniques… Read More

Build Season Week 2

Written by Ryan Cesiel on January 24, 2011

This past week each team made significant progress and the robot design and build is going good. We are moving along on schedule at the moment. This was the first week of actual build which meant homework time and different teams meeting each night. On Thursday night, we got together from 7-9pm for a design review to present designs and see how we were doing based on our schedule …Read More

Build Season Week 1

Written by Ryan Cesiel on January 15, 2011

After attending the 2011 FIRST kickoff at Novi High School, we met the following day at Crittenton Hospital to go over the game and begin designing. During this meeting we came up with a plethora of designs, ideas and strategies that we had to narrow down in order to begin building. So, each day after school, students presented and narrowed down design ideas.

On Thursday night, student team leaders and team mentors met to finalize the design. We debated arm vs. forklift, different strategies, as well as drive systems. When the meeting was complete, we had finalized the drive system and planned to finish the rest of the design process this morning (Saturday morning) …Read More