Saturday, January 24, 2009

January 24, 2009

The team decked out in red for the group photo on Saturday, which was taken in between all the tasks everyone was working on.

January 21, 2009

Back to work on Wednesday, Marketing made some phone calls for community service offers such as girl scouts, and web design got some work done on the logo.


January 19, 2009


We had the day off today for MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!


January 17, 2009

On Saturday, the team questionnaires were handed out and answered, and we each posed for individual and subgroup pictures to go on the website.





Saturday, January 17, 2009

January 14, 2009

While the marketing team was busy coming up with community service ideas, sponsors for the t-shirts, and t-shirt designs, the drive and design team was continually making progress on their strategies…



January 12, 2009

On Monday, Dan “Sunshine” Avery won the human player game. The photojournalism team got the hang of setting up the backdrop for the pit area in less than five minutes, and the marketing team began work on the Chairman’s Award…


January 10, 2009

On our second Saturday meeting, the marketing team was busy coming up with options for this year’s theme, and then all of the robotics members came together to vote on the ultimate decision. Many members were attached to the idea of dressing as high-style secret agents, while others got excited to wear the equally stylish 80s basketball short-shorts, but the final resolution was to sport capes and masks as Robbe Xtreme superheroes. This wonderful blog you are currently reading also got its first dose of attention from the photojournalism crew on Saturday the 10th, as did the new website layout by the web design team…



January 7, 2009

We were first introduced to this year’s prototype on the Wednesday meeting, and we had driver and human player tryouts for anyone in the group who wanted to try. With each new attempt at driving we discovered new tactics of maneuvering the robot…


January 5, 2009

On Monday, we reviewed more videos to get a clearer idea of what Lunacy is all about, re-examined and utilized what ideas worked and didn’t work from previous years, and ultimately set out prioritize our ideas from the kickoff meeting…


January 3, 2009

At the kickoff meeting, we heard speeches from many of the most well-known individuals in the First program, watched video clips from previous years and devoured plenty of muffins and pizza; but of course the most focal part of the day was learning about the 2009 game. The rules to this year’s unique competition were enforced by a very amusing, apparently lost episode of “Who Wants To Be An Engineer,” and the required “cells” and wheels for the robot were passed around the crowd. We then split up into three groups to brainstorm what we each thought were the most important things the robot must have and do…