In this year’s challenge, Power Up, you earn points by carrying power cubes to areas called switches or scales and by controlling those areas with your alliance. Power cubes can be collected and used for power-ups, which gives you the ability to push ahead of the other alliance by working together. Towards the end the game, you have to be the first alliance to climb one foot off the ground. The alliance with the highest points wins the game. Click here to see more details
This week, the team is indubitably noticing the pressure of the time constraints. Design races to complete the prototype, having to be resourceful as some materials have not been gathered yet, thinking with the minds of true engineers as Mechanical fabricates each piece necessary. Their goal is to finish the scrum-bot and hopefully have a plan for the actual robot laid out by the end of the week. Business, on the other hand, works on various awards, which can be found here. They also finished their business plan this week. The electrical and  programming team are working hand in hand to complete and test wiring newly debugged coding and fix any issues on the spot. They would like to be able to finish wiring and debug code for the robot as fast as possible.
This week, as a team, we have addressed problems in communicating that arose in previous weeks. Mechanical is working with Design to put together the robot, but Electrical is shouldering more responsibility this year by being more involved in the design of the electrical board to take some of the pressure off the overwhelmed Design team. They are also working with the Programming team to make sure that they can immediately diagnose and fix problems in both the wiring and the code that is being tested.