Author: Wire Clippers
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3/25/21
Hi, thanks to some genius tech work on my part, this blog post wasn’t actually posted last week, so I’m just going to upload it today. Apologies for the inconvenience. Hello again, everyone! This is our second week back on the job, and now that we have a workroom to work in, we’ve been hard…
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3/18/2021
We are extremely pleased to announce that, as of 3:35 pm today, we are back in our workspace! Due to quarantine limitations, the programming team hasn’t gotten inside yet (more on this on Monday, don’t worry) but the build team and business team have been hard at work on getting the room ready. The build…
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2/9/20
Hello again, we’ve had a busy couple of weeks since the build season started. Build team has assigned roles for each member, and continued strategy for when we’ll be able to use our space in the school. With the school as a whole being reopened (in a limited capacity, but open nonetheless), this prospect looks…
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January 24
As the build season begins, the subgroups have all met up to discuss their plans going forward. In the last post, we gave an outline for approximately what we were planning. That said, the teams have had their first meetings this week, and have created concrete, short term plans for how we’re going to run…
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2020-2021 Kickoff
Hello, dear parents, sponsors, and friends! It is my pleasure to announce that, in spite of the current mess of a situation we’re in right now, the Wire Clippers are back online! As of Friday, the tenth, the robotics season has officially begun, and as we race to keep up with a whole new slew…
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1/21/20
Today, our build team was working on a mechanism that will collect power cells during our matches. They also communicated with Home Depot who generously donated tools with a total value of $300! Our business team was continuing to work on the animation for our Chairmen’s presentation visuals and got a $500 donation from the…
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1/17/20
Bussiness finished their Woody Flowers Award essay and Chairmen’s short answers. They brought their Chairmen’s essay into the editing phase. And started on their presentation script and animation. Build team finished the chassis, ordered some parts, and did some tool organization. The finalized climb and power cell mechanism plans are starting to come together. Programming…
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Week 3
We have done a myriad of things this week. Our business team has continued working on creating the video required as part of the chairman’s award. That includes planning, preparing and conducting interviews. We interviewed lots of team members and mentors as well as teachers and parents. The interviews are going very well, it’s great…
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Week 2
This week has been incredibly productive in terms of building and programming. Our build team finished our chassis, and a team has been working on building our elevator. The programming team has been working out all of the bugs within our code. Thanks to them, we have a robot that actually runs! We were all…
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Week 1
We spent this week workshopping the issues we had in the design we had created on Kickoff. The lift that we had thought would be used on our robot had too many moving parts, and seeing as we wanted to minimize the risk of disaster, we needed to change the lift. A few of our…