Today's robotics meeting was focused on planning out the tasks for each role. Our first meet is in only three weeks, so we don't have a lot of time. Our goal for the meet is just to have a moving robot that can score a few points. Even so, it will take some work to do that.
The coach required that we formulate a plan for the entire season before doing anything at all. We weren't even allowed to organize the space or disassemble last year's robots. Personally, I think that's a mistake - it's not possible to plan an engineering project of this type that far out without being so vague that the plan is reduced to a guideline. Our robot has never been built before. On the plus side, people are gaining experience using the Office Online collaboration suite.
Fulfilling my mentor duties, I talked to both teams about how to arrange a plan, and informed the newbie team of how critical the engineering notebook is to getting awards. I also took some time to get a script for the teams' programmers together that installs the JDK and Android Studio in unattended mode.
Hopefully we can start actually making progress next time.
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