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Core Value 3

We honor the spirit of friendly competition
We don't boo other teams, we root for other teams just like we would root for our own. We shake hands before and after the competitions, we say good luck! Because everyone will be nervous and that is nice to hear!

Core Value 2

We do the work to find the solutions but our mentor and our coaches do not always have the answers, we find them together.
How we are a rookie team and how Luke and Marc help guide our younger team mates to the correct attachment and the right program. And how you guys enthusied us, rookie coaches with robotics, legos and FLL!!!

Core Vaule 1

We are a team!
By participating in team building exercises in the beginning of every meeting we are able to function and work to set aside our differences to become a great team! The words I and me are not in our vocab anymore, it is replaced by we, us and our!

Saturday November 19th

Today's practice went great! We were able to have great progess in the project portion of the competition, and hand parts of the skit out for our play to form. Today we did two blind builds and both of them turned out the same! Our two teams communicated with great language using hot dog- vertical, and hamburger- horizontal to understand the direction of the lego that was being described. Luke and Caine did a great job finishing the combine and the truck mission! Way to go guys! And today Marc found a way to connect the robot to the attachment that he was working on! And everyone else worked on twicking their programs and their attachement to finsih the missons! Today was a great practice! You guys are a wonderful team, even if there are no girls :D haha!
***Remember if, maybe and probably are not powerful words but, will and going to and are (are) powerful words!****

This Saturday we went to a Boonshoft scrimmage. We had 2 rounds and a Core Values test. We learned a lot about how competitions work. Alex and I learned that we REALLY need to work on programming. Out of an impossible 425, we got 79 & 84 (I think). But who cares? We all had a lot of fun and this WAS only a scrimmage. Plus it was REALLY hard for all the teams because we all weren't ready. But we all had SO much fun.

Bee Hive Temperature

Did you know the temperature of the bee hive ranges between 92.5 and 95 degrees year round.
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/2507/V31N03_181.pdf?sequence=1

Saturday morning at 9am we will gather at Boonshoft to go through a pratice judging session on Core Values and also have 2 pratice rounds at the competation table. So team come with an open mind, an attitude that we will learn to make us better and be ready to have fun.

Pratice 5 Nov

What a great pratice we had. Mrs terry who is a teacher on bee keeping stopped by and talked to us about bee keeping. So many interesting facts - did you know that in the winter time the female bees kick outthe male bees since all they do is eat. Tim and Marc are really moving along with their special attachments, Luke fine tuned his programming for the truck and started on the tractor, Zack worked hard on his programming to get the trailer, and Alex worked hard on his programming to get the pizza. We are getting ready for the practice competition this Saturday at Boonshoft. So we learned how to meet the judges and what it will be like inside the judging room. Go Team SAR -- on to State.

I made saw this cool spider on the Lego Digital Designer and I thought it was cool. So I downloaded the model. Here's a link to the model's guide.

October 29, 2011

Today for a Teamwork exercise, we had to get 5 kidney beans form one cup to another at the other end of the room using only a straw and our mouths to suck in air to get it over their!! Nicholas thought of folding the straw in half and using it as chopsticks, and Luke thought of smashing the bean into the straw. Mark & Luke's team won first. It showed that you need to help your partner out and show them a way to get it right.

We worked on our robots and decided that me, Adam, would wear a bee suit and be the mascot. In the robots, we learned that the robot programing was VERY unpredictable. If you accidentally made one little inch forward, your robot would go haywire.

SAR Team begins to work together

Last week, the team was busy working on delivering honey to the store. Here are some photos of them build various robots.

Welcome all to the Some Assembly Required Blog

What a great idea to share what we have learned both with building Lego robots and all about our project -- HONEY!!!