Talked about starting the evening with checking everyone's GQueues to see what's going on. Then had everyone choose one of several activities. The website group had a mini meeting about the website. A group got together to talk about Chairman's Award and read over the rules. Some did more indepth study of the rules. A few checked out Chief Delphi. And the "Field Elements Group" did some planning for what materials they needed to build the field elements. Afterwards, several students and mentors threw basketballs to check out the trajectory.
About 8:00 everyone got back together for some brainstorming. 5 groups of 3... Defined 7 different major strategic functions the robot had to do: shoot balls, pick up balls, drive, balance and go over bridges, defend, go over the bump. Each team picked one area, and discussed 3 different options to solve that problem. Each team then presented to the group how their ideas worked.
Lots of great ideas! Amazing how much things have changed in a year! Last year very few students had any idea about where to start the process...
