Watt The Hex won the PTC award and finished second for the Inspire award at the Livingston Lancer’s Robo-Joust.   Despite some early problems, they still finished 6th. 

Tweaking the lift

Say Watt, Watts Up, and Watt The Hex’s sister/brother FLL team won the Core Values Inspiration award in Wilmington and won an invitation to the Delaware State FLL Championship in January.  They also placed fourth in points.  Good job, Robot Rangers (team 705)!!  Four out of the five FLL kids have an older sibling on one of the FTC teams.  We are training them up early! 

While there, we got to hang out with the siblings of our friends from MASH 4077 and the two JFLL teams got to play together.   

New world record score of 254 by 3539 Say Watt and Shenanigans 4356

In one of the first Championship tournaments, Say Watt was the captain of the winning alliance and won an invitation to St. Louis.    Say Watt? (3539) and its alliance partner Shenannigans (4356) set the new high score at 254.  Say Watt also one the Rockwell-Collins Innovate award.

All three teams participated in the qualifier in Blue Bell PA.   It was one of the most exciting tournaments that we have been to in a while.    Say Watt and Watts Up partnered and won the finalist alliance.   Say Watt? also won the Inspire Award.   Watt The Hex won the PTC award, despite their robot having horrible software problems all day.   Say Watt? and the Silver Soldiers set the new high score at 242.  Say Watt? and Watts Up qualified for the PA State Tournament on Feb 25 in Williamsport, PA.

242 point alliance

Bayonne was an interesting scrimmage on November 5. Watt The Hex was the winning alliance captain.   Say Watt was the finalist alliance captain.  Watt The Hex beat Say Watt in 3 out of 4 matches.  Say Watt debuted its new clamping system on the end effectuator module.  Watt The Hex also won the PTC Design Award. 

New clamping module

We are a little behind in site maintenance.   Here is VLOG #3.  This may show a little more accurate portrayal of our meetings.   While we try to get a lot done, we also have fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePUhyadF1k

For those who want to learn how to use PTC’s CAD program or who don’t remember the training they received, Say Watt’s CAD expert, Yash, has created a series of training videos for FTC Teams.   This concentrates on the basics that are needed to get your chassis laid out in CAD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuoxcCfSBk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccuyONjcNLw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrE6QwPBDxM

Say Watt and Watt The Hex had fun last Saturday at the Stung by the Storm event at Bayonne.   Watt The Hex (4311) took top honors as the captain of the winning alliance and Say Watt (3539) was the captain of the finalist alliance.    Say Watt and the Lancers combined for a top score of 111 points during the qualification matches.    Watt The Hex pulled off the feat of beating Say Watt? in three out of four matches.   Watt The Hex also won the Connect award.   Say Watt also picked up a “Most Buzz” award and Watt The Hex was awarded an “Impressive Outreach” award for the previous weekend at River Dell.   The teams are hard at work and waiting for the rematch…  

We posted some video of the matches on YouTube.

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