First Lego League, VEX Scrimmage and Launching T-shirts at the Civic Center

This past weekend the Black Bear Robotics club made it’s way to the First Lego League Event in Augusta, ME. Besides getting up at 5:30AM to get to the event on time, we did a lot of work at the event. I was a Mechanical Design Judge and got to check out some of the good and not so good designs by the middle school students competing.

Also, we setup our VEX field where we had 12 teams participating in a scrimmage in preparation of the Maine VEX Championship. Overall the kids participating had some great robots, one with an elevator and another with a sort of duel vertical conveyer system.

Also, the t-shirt launcher was on display and in demonstration. We got to fire it into the stands at the civic center much to the enjoyment of the kids. It got a great response from the crowd despite the bugginess of the tilt for the barrels. We dialed it down from 100 psi (which hit the back wall of the students section at the Alfond) to 65 but still got pretty good range.

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A high school student talks with a robotics club member