2024 Week 4: Team Journal

Week four of the build season is complete! With just two weeks left until the competition season begins, we have eagerly prepared for our first match!

This past week, the business team worked on several tasks for the upcoming Sponsor Night and started preparations for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition. The logistics team started finding restaurants for team dinners at MAR and continued to organize meals for the build season. Media began designing a new robot trading card and continued to sort through and organize photos, utilizing our new photos to update the team’s socials. The finance team worked with the media team to design a new business plan cover. The business team as a whole has collaborated to plan our Annual Sponsor Networking Night; donors and parents are invited to the school for a presentation about the past season and plans for the new one, along with a tour of our Tech Lab.  The community outreach team organized the upcoming library demonstration and worked to ensure a successful event! Collaboratively, the business team made more buttons and updated the large showcase displays located outside the tech lab. 

More work was conducted on getting our new competition robot up and kicking on the build team’s end. This is largely due to the design team’s recent completion of the CAD for the new robot. Utilizing this, fabrication started on the key components of the robot. The electrical team designed the electric diagram of the robot. The build team also created a functional drive base for the software team to use. Thanks to this, the robot is now fully capable of driving. Furthermore, the software team gave the robot vision capabilities after spending the past two weeks working on it. The software team also discussed and finalized its code superstructure and has begun changing the subsystem to accommodate it. The team’s strategy subteam began development of this year’s scout app. Week 4 of the build season was incredibly productive for the build team, and a finished competition robot is only a few steps away. 

Overall, the team accomplished a lot this week and is excited to continue progressing through its tasks as competition season gets closer. We are eager to see what next week brings because the team has worked extremely hard to prepare for the Crescendo Competition Season.