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Archive for November, 2007

Still working hard…..

Our team goals have always been (1) Learn lots, (2) Try our best, and (3) Have Fun! This year I have to say that the kids are definitely achieving ALL their goals. They are definitely trying their best to prepare and improve for the upcoming Provincial Tournament. They are learning more [...]

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Work Work Work

Work and Work and Work some more ive spent most of my day trying to get all the programs in one program. Things are very complicated.
Dragonfly and Butterfly worked on making our third and fourth robot the same today all they need is an arm.
I hope things come together soon. and i can’t wait to [...]

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Back to it

We are back to it! today we shaved some time off the runs and Dragonfly and I did a practice run and scored 360 again I think we could of got more but we had a little misalignment. Dragonfly was practicing her run and i think she is getting a lot better! only once we [...]

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Whitby`s regonal tournament

Yesterday, we went to the Whitby`s regional tournament.
We had LOADS of fun, and a few problems (that we overcame.) It was shocking, but we got two awards; the robot performance award, and the champions award (A.K.A. the directors award, which earned us a trip to the provincials.) We would also like to thank the [...]

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Today is the day

Today is our regional tournament. The kids have worked incredibly hard. They programmed right up until last night. We have all the missions going now! (Although a few aren’t as consistent as we would like to see and we struggle to get them done in the 2.5 minutes, usually forcing [...]

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Slowly coming along

The team is really pulling together now. Everyone is pitching in and they are making progress. They still have a lot of work to do between now and our competition on Saturday, but they seem to be able to do anything they set their minds to! I am so proud of them. [...]

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A L-O-N-G Day.

Yesterday was a challenging day for us.  We worked hard, but saw little progress.  In fact one of the missions that was working stopped working.  It was really hard to keep our spirits up, but we decided that even if we score zero on the table we are still going to competition and we’ll be [...]

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A hard week

It’s been a hard week for the team. They are only now starting to achieve a little on the field table and are feeling the pressure of our tournament deadline. As a coach I’ve tried to help them avoid this kind of stress by setting a few deadlines for them, but they didn’t [...]

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Today (and yesterday) has full of practicing tweaking and practicing again.
Jaguar has been working long and hard on programing! it feels like a never-ending winding path.
Snake

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Cheers!

We aren’t finishing off our missions like we would like, but we have got lots of other stuff done. We’ve been working on the lapbooks, our hats for our skit, thank you cards, our pit display. Yesterday we also came up with an idea for a cheer. A bunch of us worked [...]

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