Last year our group made a robot called the Interceptor after the game show the Interceptor. We are delighted after this years performance and all the hard work through the many months to finish 19th out of 29. Here is our results:
Pi Noon - Round 3rd
Obstacle course - 9th
Crazy Golf - DNF
Minimal Maze - DNF
Somewhere over the rainbow - DNS
Duck shoot - 12th
Straight line speed test - DNF
Technical merit - 11th
Artistic Merit - 2nd
We are very great full for achieving the impossible of making second in the artistic merit after I came up with the idea to strap a duck (Jeffery) onto the robot with Duct tape.
The technical details were done by Tyler and Ben. we worked very hard for many hours sorting as much code as possible. Thank Miss Heal for helping us with the code.
Our idea for ducks came from rubber duck debugging were you talk to the duck to check your code. We have collected many ducks and have over 100 in the collection. Thanks Pi wars shops for giving us a duck. Next years Pi wars we hope to do even better with a space theme. This means our name will be a big surprise. It was a fun experience at pi wars were we had our own workroom and amazing facility's to host the competition in and everyone was friendly and happy to help a hand plus the food was lovely. congratulations to DCGS for wining Saturdays competition.
Our aim was not to finish last and were shock by the results. We are making an even better, bigger, crazier robot that we want to win the artistic merit with but we we have got a big surprise which we are not going to tell anyone anyone about. Can we thank the orginisors of pi wars (Michael Horne and Tim Richardson) for making it all happen, to the staff, cleaners, shop workers, competitors, helpers like Tom the technician and to our teachers. A big thanks to Wakefield council, Look North, the ducks and my team mates.
We are exited to come back soon.
see you next Wednesdays for Weekly Blog Wednesday and also Tyler for details and updates every so often.
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