Thursday 27th February 2025, the first session after our very successful qualifiers! This week was incredibly celebratory, with Alex bringing homemade cake in and us taking team photos for the school, but still productive with us working hard developing our strategy and upcoming outreach plans.

Hardware and Strategy

In terms of hardware and strategy, we took some notes during the competition for ideas of improvements, taking inspiration from the other teams and using what we learnt in our matches to develop our robot. We found at qualifiers that it was very effective to have one specimen scoring robot and one bucket scoring robot as it ensured you didn’t get in the way of your alliance partner and slow each other down. This meant during our session we considered options to adapt our robot to also handle specimens as well as develop our existing bucket mechanism to reach the high basket. Furthermore, we discussed changing our intake to allow it to extend forwards to be able to grab samples from a further distance.

Outreach and Fundraising

For Outreach, we began brainstorming bake sale ideas for this half-term, coming up with some themes and when we could do it – but still not deciding anything. Additionally, we continued making plans for our Primary School visit – brainstorming ideas for what activity to run, taking note of everyone who will be involved, and writing an email to the school finalising a date, however we have not heard back from them since.