We are more efficient than ever! I (Marquise Williams, one of this years team captains) have never in the 3 yrs I have been here seen such progress in this short amount of time. We have a completed chassis, at least two complete functioning prototypes and a very well organized team comprised of new and old members with a wide variety of talents. You will be hearing from us more often this year and I am proud to be a captain of the 2014 UCHS Robolions, team 3397.

                 

                                                                                                                                                                     The robotics  team at kick off on Saturday the 4th! Go robotics!                                                                                                   

This is intermittent programmer Henry in with the news from this weeks wesdnesday meeting.

We got a lot done this meeting, including getting the joystick working again, mounting the shooter motors on the robot, and having a relatively high attendance rating (8 students! Wow!).

Here are some pics from the night, featuring Christine, Marcus, and a new atttendee, Clayton making accomodations to the robot to turn it into a shooter.

As you can see, things are busy here at robolions central. 

We are really looking forward to going to the activity fair at Ucity high to rally up some more members, and going to the Cowtown Throwdown in Kansas City.

This is Henry Braeske, signing off. And now, the weather.

Captain Walter signing in. Tonight we began cutting the arm to make room for the shooter. We also got the gearboxes for the shooter wheels fully assembled. I will not go into too many details, as the pictures speak for themselves.

We also had a new kid, Marcus Shelton, join the team. 

That is all for tonight, the next post will either be tomorrow or sometime next week.

New kid on the block and programming progress made

Hey everyone! My name is Emily Looby and I am the new team blogger and photographer. This is my first year as a part of the University City High School Robotics team. I am beyond excited and look forward to advertising this club that little people know about.  I am also a member of the field hockey and swim team\, a National Honor Society member, and on the U-Times newspaper staff.

Currently, the programmers can now deploy code through the correct application and fixed a majority of the network problems. Christine and Nathan are working on disassembling  the old shooter in order to a build a new one. Meanwhile, Walter is working on the gearbox for the new shooter.

Temporary captain Walter signing in here! We opened up the lab today to find a MIG welder left there by some unknown person. If it is ours, and not just left in the room as storage, we plan to put it to good use. There are some pictures of the machine shop in there as well, with the welding box where it would be.

  

Back in the Lab

It may be summer, but that won't keep the RoboLions out of the lab. Walter, Christine, Jonah, Josh, Dan, Mr. Deitzler and I headed down to do a bit of midsummer cleaning today, discovering a whole lot of miscellaneous junk in corners of our lab, such as screws, bolts, washers, the long-lost sprocket bag, a lot of buttons, the One Ring of Power, and too many forks -- as well as a steel welder in our storage room. The box advertised that the welder could weld aluminum, though it would require 100% argon gas and a calm indoor space to do so, which is a little intimidating. However, if we can overcome those hurdles, Walter (an experienced welder) and Christine (going to welding camp shortly) should be able to weld parts of our next robot with ease!