Since the 5th of January of 2019, when the challenge of the largest robotics competition in the world was released, our team has been working towards our biggest and main goal: to participate successfully in the FIRST Robotics Competition regional in Quebec City, Canada, in April of this year.
Beforehand, FIRST released all the details of this season through a live transmission, in which they made available this season’s game manual, which was released simultaneously to every team in the world. The event is known as kickoff, and if you’re interested in learning more about it, read this post.
Right as we entered the first week of Build Season, all team members read the manual in order to participate in our strategy meeting. This way we could analyze all the possibilities proposed by our team.
Em seguida, após a reunião de estratégia, foram iniciadas algumas atividades. Como desenho do robô e início da projeção e construção da arena de teste. Enquanto isso, os alunos da programação já estavam realizando os primeiros testes com o reconhecimento de imagem e estudavam a arena para melhorar o robô.
Enquanto está rolando as 6 semanas de Build Season já começamos a organização para o período da competição em Quebec. A equipe já organizou a estadia e transporte no local e os alunos que irão viajar se reuniram para regularizar vistos e passaportes.
A great piece of news is that all of our students who needed visas got them approved!
Of course, behind the effort, there are many other factors that keep us motivated, one of them being the most prestigious award of the competition: the Chairman’s.
We already know that this is a very important award. The question is: why is that?
Winning the Chairman’s means that we best represented the values of FIRST, the non-governmental organization that created the competition.
Ele foi criado para homenagear equipes que conseguem engajar sua comunidade disseminando e inspirando jovens a entrar no mundo das ciências e tecnologia.
That’s why, with help from other team members, 5800’s writer, translator and student captain of the marketing finalizaram o texto, que é um dos requisitos para concorrer à premiação, o qual foi revisado e corrigido juntamente com a elaboração de perguntas; vale lembrar que essa premiação pode nos qualificar para o mundial, que acontece em Houston, no Texas.
During this period, our engineering division worked hard on the robot’s prototypes, studied new ideas, learned the rules of the game and prepared the chassis in order to accommodate the robot’s structure, among many other things!
As of now, the chassis is ready for the structure, waiting for the other mechanisms to get into action.
Through here you could see a bit of what the team has been doing in the first weeks of the process of building the robot.
Soon we’ll be back to tell you about our next weeks. Stay tuned and don’t forget to follow our social media and our Youtube channel, on which we are posting weekly videos.
Thank you for reading and see you next time!
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