Our team sat mostly in the third and fourth rows in the high school auditorium.
Waiting for the telecast to begin. Photo by Andrea.
Counting down to the kickoff at 5:30 AM.
Team photo after the game reveal.
Team photo.
Mentors discuss the game.
Meanwhile there was a meeting for parents.
Brainstorming design ideas.
Discussing design ideas. Photo by Team Magma via Facebook.
Team leader Mija set up the chop saw while freshman Andrew watched.
Mija and Andrew worked together to build the prototype hook deployer.
The prototype assembly progresses.
All done and it works.
Getting ready to use the chop saw on some extruded aluminum as a parent volunteer watches.
Last year's robot will be used as a testbed for this year's programming.
Everyone is busy.
Using the chop saw for further prototyping.
Getting ready for the team student photograph.
The team student photograph.
Three students worked in the cave.
The mechanical team was building a control panel wheel for testing the robot prototype.
Operating the mill.
Lining up for dinner.
Testing the control panel positioner. It works.
Programming team at work.
Parent and mentor booster meeting in the cave.
Dinner break at 7:00 PM.
Operating the mill. I told the operator to tuck in his hoodie strings right after I took this photo.
CAD designers at work.
The design team at work in the main room.
Mr. Kwock helped make bearing blocks on the mill.
Kareem and Jefferson cut one-by-two extrusion for the chassis.
Disassembling last year's robot for parts. Later I helped Chris do the robot lifting winch drum size calculation.
Replacing belt pulleys with sprockets on the six robot wheels.
Mentor Uncle Donny in the programming room.
It was a productive evening.
Mentor Wayland Kwock and student Mathew running the mills.
Button making.
Working on the lift winch prototype.
Dinner break for pizza.
The robot frame is partially assembled.
Photographing the daily status meeting.
Assembling the robot chassis while parent chaperone (Matt's own mother) applies a bandage to his cut finger (minor injury).
Mentor Uncle Donny with the programming team.
Drilling a pilot hole in the end of a piece of hex shaft.
At work on a Friday night.
Working to install the drive train gear boxes into the chassis.
Working on the intake/scorer.
Making progress on mounting the motors. Photo by Andrea.
Dinner break.
We won the San Diego Regional competition that year and went on to compete in the world competition. Two years later (2010) we (FRC 294) won the World Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.
Andrea went on to the AHP meeting at Grace Chapel in Aina Haina. Twenty students were busy building the robot.
Lots to do and lots being done.
All the students were busy.
Designers and the PR team in the cave.
Dinner break. Sandwiches again. Fourth time for me, so I passed and went straight for the cookies.
Figuring out how to put the bumpers on.
Working on the ball handling mechanism.
Work continued on the bumpers and game piece mechansims.
A nice looking robot.
Testing and adjusting the robot. Photo by Team Magma via Facebook.
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