Our Posters

Kids prepared three posters for the project presentation, a poster for the robot design judging session, and a poster for the teamwork judging session.

Sharing Our Ideas

Sharing our ideas was one of required things that needs to be done according to the challenge document. We kind of ran out of time and did not have many options: share the idea with the class in the school, share the idea with families and friends. We chose the latter one. We scheduled a time with all the kids, their families and friends. Kids gave the presentation to their families and friends at our presentation instructor's place.

Our senior partner visited us in the new year

Our senior partner visited us at our meeting place in the first week of January. Kids demonstrated the robot runs on the tables.

Good Mission Strategy

We recently did lots of researches and found out that a good strategy is better than a good program and would save lots of NXT programming work. And, we are going to combine all missions on the west area into one single run. That means the robot will complete the TV, blue quilts, yellow quilts, and dog in one run. This requires making a fantastic attachment and lots of experiments. Coaches and kids are all excited about this idea and have been working very hard on getting it working, almost there.

Victory! The Super Ninja Bunnies claimed victory at the qualifier competition on December 8th.

Victory! The Super Ninja Bunnies claimed victory at the qualifier competition on December 8th. The judging sessions went amazingly, and we were certain that the judges appreciated our Smartcane presentation. Our first try of the robot game only got us 151 points, but we more than made up for it during the second round, with our winning score of 433 points. The third and fourth try also went pretty smoothly. Also, we were awarded the prizes for both Robot Performance and Core Values. So, all in all, it was a great experience for our entire team.

-by Johnny

Gracious Professionalism

It is interesting to find out what kids were talking gracious professionalism. Tianhao said it was hard to work in a team. That is true. At the beginning of this season when we got the team set up, communication was our major problem. Team members weren't communicate very well. This is their new experience in life. Teamwork is just a word and doesn't mean anything. We did a few communication tests, and learnt a lot from those games. It was fun. Gracious professionalism means communication, teamwork, fairness and respect.

We have a solution

It took a long time for the team to agree on one solution. Every team member has a different opinion of what an innovative solution should be. We had multiple brainstorm sessions and group discussions, and eventually came up with our final solution. It was a team effort and team decision. It is Smart Cane, a.k.a. iCane.