Today we thought we’d change our nicknames.
Our old ones were ‘Trail Names’ but we had those before we had our team name, W.A.F.F.L.E.S.. Our new names were partly inspired by a ref from the World Festival who called us by waffle toppings while we were waiting for our next run. We had thought about changing [...]
Archive for May, 2008
New Nicknames
Posted in Fun!, Teamwork on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our most recent team get together
Posted in Fun!, Waffles Challenges on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s W.A.F.F.L.E.S. Challenge was to think of a “perfect waffle” is. We brainstormed a list of what a perfect team mate would be like. It didn’t take us long to realize that no one was perfect, although we are all doing a pretty good job of trying. I think over the past [...]
Solar Sprint
Posted in Fun! on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the important goals we set for ourselves this year is to learn how to take what we learn as a member of the W.A.F.F.L.E.S. and use it in other areas of our life, and vice versa. Our coach tells us she sees quite a difference in us when we are in waffle-mode, [...]
Mail Today
Posted in Climate Connection 2008-09 on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I received our FLL registration package in the mail today. So now I have the 2008 Coach’s manual, the new DVD’s. I think this is going to be a great season.
Coach C.
Todays Meeting
Posted in Building, Research on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We Just had our meeting. Today we looked at our robot designs again we worked on them. Squirrel had improved a ton on her previous base. everyone had an awesome time brainstorming about what kind of presentation style we wanted and we came up with a lot of great ideas. We also thought of a [...]
Flowers
Posted in Core Values on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, out of the blue, I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers from the team in appreciation for what I do. It’s truly touching to see how thoughtful the team can be.
Thanks W.A.F.F.L.E.S.
Coach C.
An afternoon at the movies
Posted in Climate Connection 2008-09, Research on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This afternoon we got together to watch the 11th Hour with our family and friends. The movie features interviews with many well known scientific experts and is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. It is a movie about the impact humans are having on the planet. It is the kind of movie that really [...]
Eco W.A.F.F.L.E.S. Challenge
Posted in Climate Connection 2008-09, Fun!, Outreach on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have started doing Eco challenges lately and we thought that we would challenge the people that read are blog to do them too! Our Eco challenges challenge us to reduce the effects of global warming and we hope that it will get everyone in the habit and that we will continue to do it. [...]
W.A.F.F.L.E.S. Meeting
Posted in Building, Fun!, Teamwork, Waffles Challenges on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we each brought the prototype designs we have been working on at home to show one another. It was really interesting to see some of the different ideas. One had a neat gear train, another a great solution for quickly changing the batteries and another had a great way to quickly add [...]
No Limits!
Posted in Building, Climate Connection 2008-09, Fun! on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We just finished building our No Limits field set not that long ago. It looks really neat especially the basket ball net. We have been building some robot bases lately and I think they all are a better design than last year but we will see. We are going to test the robots on [...]
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