Grandville Tourney Results!

GUESS WHAT!! We got the Champion's Award at our Regional Tournament! (that's 1st place overall) So, us and 10 other teams are heading to Flint for the State Championship in 3 weeks!!

~Calvin, who is excited-

World Festival

We now know what teams are going to World Festival, and the Robo Hippies are going!! Congratulations to the 1st Place champions of the Flint State Championship for making it to World Festival. Good luck!!

-Calvin-

Legos In Paradise Youtube Channel!

Hey everyone! Check out LIP's new Youtube channel! (Side banners done by yours truly :p) I Also posted a video of us getting 320 at the state tournament!


Jarren ;)

Can you Find it Game

Here's the results for the Can You Find it Game!

There are 4 Hawaiian (Flower) Shirts
There are 7 Crates
There are 2 Ships
There are 28 Minifigs
Last Years Mission Model Part: The ramp onto the dock, The Houses Roof panels. :)


For the Pics: White is a minifig and Black is another item. You can click a pic to enlarge it.

Flint Results!

WHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE DID AWESOME IN FLINT TODAY!!!!!!!!!! WE GOT 2ND PLACE OVERALL AND WE ARE REALLY EXCITED!!!!!
AND WE MIGHT GET TO GO TO WORLD FESTIVAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Our highest robot run was 320! That tied with the Practice Tourney Score! But, Not only that, we got 2 320's and a 310! We got 6th place on robot :)!


AND, we got all goods and excellents on our project! We also got callbacks for teamwork!


Also, about the "Can you find it Game" On our beach scene, I will post the info tomorrow. Come back tomorrow to see the stuff!!!!


CALVIN, REALLY EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

Leavin'!

We just finished eating, and are getting ready to leave from the hotel for the State Championship!! Wish us luck! :)

Calvin, literally walking out the door! :D

We're settled in!

Hi!!

We came back to the hotel after the crash lab tour and are settled in, we played games for a couple hours and now we're leavin' for Fire Mountain to go pig out and have fun!!

Calvin, excited for the tournament!!!

We're in Flint!

We are getting settled into the hotel after going on a field trip to a crash lab!

Jarren :)

Tuesday 12/8 meeting

Yesterday was possibly our last meeting because of the snow storm that is blowing though here. So we practiced and practiced and practiced. Did I mention that we practiced? Oh yes, we practiced. Before the meeting, Calvin and I made the schematics of our innovative solution, EVAR safe, you can see all about it on our website. Now were just hoping for good weather to Flint.

Jarren ;)

Flint State-Level Tourney

We had plenty of fun at the Regional Tourney! (I think you can tell from previous posts) But the Lego Fever is still not over! We have 6 meetings until the State Tourney in Flint. We hope to tweak our project and robot. I think just if everyone spends their time efficiently, we can do more in 3 weeks than the whole rest of the season! (major sarcasm :D)

Aaron, hoping we do well at State...

Grandville Tourney Results!

Even though we had a couple 400 practice runs a few nights ago, since there are no lighting rules, our highest robot run was the 1st one, with the score of 280! Our 2nd and 3rd runs were even worse after calibrating Light Sensors, changing values, making Light Sensor light-blocking cages, etc. 280 Points is an OK score, but all of our runs were in the morning when the sun was shining right on the tables, and all of the people in the afternoon did better because the sun moved to the other side of the sky. :( Oh well, we don't care now, because you'll see in a minute.
After the tourney, we saw that we got all Goods and Excellents on our judging sessions!
But, best of all...... We got the 1st Place Robot Programming Award!!!! But, then... We also got the 1st Place Overall Regional Qualifier! We get to advance to State! And, then, also... Do you remember our rookie team called The Sharks? Well, 11 teams got to advance to State-Level, and The Sharks got 9th!!! Rookie Team!

Aaron, Yelling in Background! (Only if I had that Coke in the fridge, I'm still tired :D )

Waking up for Tourney!

Good Morning! We're all probably waking up to get ready for the Tourney. The Countdown Clock currently says about 3 hours to the opening ceremony! Hope to see everyone there!

Aaron, Tired but a little exited now...

Less than one day left!

We have less than one day left till our Regional Tournament! Jarren and I worked on the robot, and almost got 400 points. It's programmed to do it, it just hasn't worked yet! :[ Later, Aaron came and we all worked on the Project and Teamwork Boards.

Calvin, feeling sorta ready for the tourney!

Tuesday 11/10 meeting

Yesterday, we went over our scores and watched the videos that our Coach took of the judging sessions. We then decided on some things that we are going to change. Today, Calvin and I are going to do some more research about our problem.


Jarren ;)

Grandville Regional Tourney

Yes, we had a lot of fun yesterday! But, the Lego fever is not over! We have 4 more meetings (Yes, Just 4!), then we'll be at our next Tournament! That is the Regional Tourney, which is an important one as it's on the trail to the Official State Tourney. I think we can make room for tweaking and practice in the next meetings, hopefully it's possible.

Aaron, Hoping we'll get a lot done in the next 4 meetings. :\

WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D We did awesome!!!!!!!!!! We got the Innovative Solution Finalist award (Second Place), and the 1st Place Robot Performance award!!! Our Highest Robot run score was 320 out of 400!!!!!

Calvin, tired and excited!!!

Leavin for tourney!!!

Hey!

We're at the hotel and about to leave for the tournament! It's a ten minute drive. Still making LAST MINUTE changes, (literally!)

Calvin, Walking out the door!

Thursdays last meeting!

Yesterday was our last meeting!!!!!!!!!!!

We finished all our props and binders. We found out that Tim  wont be able to be at the tourney for the presentation, so we had to practice without him. Aaron is going to play Tims part. We also ran our robot a bunch and got 370! We would of got 400 but the robot mised a grey loop.

Jarren, getting ready to head out to Flint. :)

Tuesday 11/3 meeting

Like Calvin said, 2 days!!! But here is what happened yesterday and today.

Yesterdays meeting went good. Calvin, Josh and I fine-tuned the robot before the meeting. Once every one arrived, we did some practice runs, and decided that Josh was going to be the robot runner, and Calvin, Brian and I are going to be attachment guys. We then had a practice tech judging. We practiced our skit until parents came. We did it for them and got feedback from them like, "I didn't know what Calvin part was supposed to be." We edited a bit more, and are going with what we have for the practice tourney.

Today, Calvin and I made the project and robot binders.

Now all we have is tomorrows meeting! 

Jarren : |

Tounament in 2 days!!

As the title says, our F.I.R.S.T. (lol, I love puns) Tournament is in 2 days!! Not quite ready, we are rushing to make last minute changes. Just one last meeting tomorrow before we leave on Friday, as the tournament is a 2 1/2 hour drive. We will probably be making more last minute changes in the hotel rooms (and literally, LAST MINUTE). Our robot "Shark IV" is getting closer and closer to 400 points! We updated some attachments and programs. More updates coming soon!!

Calvin, not ready for the tourney, but hoping to do well :|