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Discovery Days Robot Challenge!

The name for my Lego Robotics team was the "Robot Rookies". We decided on that name because none of us had ever done this program before. Our robot's name was U.S.S. Buster X. There were 5 others on my team. We met 2X's a month for 3 hours. At each meeting we had a different challenge to do with the robot from building it to programing it with different kinds of sensors.

This past Saturday we had Discovery Days. The theme was Colonial times. For our Robotic challenge we had to move our robot through the table sized village. We had a welcome basket for the settles of Acornia. They were mud skippers because they lived on land and water. Our 1st challenge was to have the robot had to put a welcome basket on land and water. In our basket we had gummy worms (mud skippers eat bug), wet wipes (mud skipper have to stay wet), and a small bottle of water. We had to program the robot to carry the basket to the water's end and place it down. Then the robot had to come back to base.

For the second challenge we had to have the robot start at base then go into our cabin (which we designed) and light it up for the settlers using a lamp that was on him. He then had to turn off the light and return to base. We added a fun thing by having U.S.S. Buster X say 'good bye' (using a sound sensor) before he left the cabin .

The judge liked our creativity and we did a good job! We also got pins that will be added to each year we participate in the Lego Robotics Program designed by MIT.

It was fun to show all our hard work off!