Wednesday 5th March 2025, this session we were all working hard, our Hardware team on developing our strategy and plans for adjustments from last week, our Finance team handling the finances and our Outreach team continued planning – it was a very productive week!

Additionally, this week we had the chance to look over our feedback form from judging which was a great starting point for a lot of our discussions and plans.

Hardware and Strategy

Our Hardware team were still refining our game plans and discussing what to improve about our robot for the upcoming Championships. One thing that we plan to do is making a linear lift arm, as well as changing the bucket motion to be more effective. Another thing we considered, but were unsure of the usefulness, was changing the size of the bucket. Furthermore, we found during Qualifiers that our robot kept breaking in many ways, which forced us to just have to ineffectively push samples – to ensure if this happens in London that we aren’t completely stranded we plan to add a board in front of the intake to scoop sample, this will hopefully not only make pushing samples easier but collecting them as well.

Outreach and Finance

For outreach, we finalised some dates, planning an April Fool’s themed bake sale on April 1st, and deciding to go for our Primary School visit on the 20th March (however we have not heard back from the school so this may change). For our bake sale we also came up with some ideas for what to do to make it themed.

In terms of finance, our Finance Lead, Charles, kindly counted up the money from our previous bake sale – this totalled to £221.71 – which we are tremendously proud of. Additionally, we were looking for further funding and considered making a bid for a fund that AstraZeneca offers.

Outside of Sessions

This week on the Friday, we checked the minibots that we’ll use for our Primary School visit and ensured they’d all work properly and Leonard very generously wrote the program for them.