Broncobots Blog

Tonight we had sandwiches and brownies for dessert. I had two brownies. Let’s just say I had a little too much sugar.

We made a lot of progression! It rocked!! We seem to have off and on days. We got the ball rollers working.

CAD worked extra hard tonight.

Jake’s expression makes this picture rock.

OHmygosh

Look at how tall I am!!

Animation team is almost done creating the objects for their animation. They should be starting the actual animating this week!

These brothers are too cool.

DON’T FORGET TO CHECK THE WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS TO SEE INDEPTH INTO WHAT WE ACCOMPLISH EACH WEEK. They are linked on our homepage.
OPEN HOUSE THIS SUNDAY!
Feb. 1st, 2009
Team Driven- 1-2:30PM
Team Titanium- 2:30-4PM
Team Broncobots- 4-5:30PM

If you start at Team Driven’s build site, pick up “passport” and have the designated team member sign off as you visit each site. When you arrive at the final destination, have you passport signed and turn it in for a drawing for two tickets to the Robotics Banquet which will be held on March 8!!

SPACE FACT OF THE DAY:January 2, 2004: NASA’s Stardust spacecraft successfully navigated through the nebulous cloud of ice and dust surrounding the nucleus of comet Wild 2. It was the first sample return mission to a comet, and the flyby yielded the most detailed images of a comet ever taken
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THE BRONCOBOTS OFFICIAL TV SHOW, THE BRONCOBOTS BLAST, PREMIERED TODAY ON THE GOVERNMENT CHANNEL/LEE’S SUMMIT CHANNEL!!!!
Check it out January 29-31 and February 1 with the runtime of 10 a.m. 2 p.m. 4p.m. 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Following the last showing on February 1st I will post the video for all those who do not get the channel (channel 02 on time warner))

Cameron went welding with Tom to Danny the Welder’s house to weld the ball getter upper.

Our food drive is going quite well!! Help out your community and bring food to our drive on Sunday to our open house!

Pull up your pants, boys!!

We’ve quickly approached week four and time is running out! Our animation team is working hard after schools in the computer lab on this year’s animation focused around biomimicry.

Dylan has been programming along with Brendan and the rest of the programming team.

Jake and Cameron sorted stuff.

Nathan got stuck in a chair.

Cameron went welding.

SPACE FACT OF THE DAY:

REMEMBER THE CREW OF APOLLO 1:

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/dor09/index_noaccess.html

Hayley and Phil replaced all the bolts and nuts with aluminum bolts and nuts.

Haley and Satie are hard at work making nametags.

Logan’s always excited!

Tyler and Dan are ‘cadding’ it up along with Logan.

Ball shooting designs are being prototyped and edited nightly.

Our food drive is still going on!! We are hoping to collect about 150 more pounds of food, so please remember to bring it to our buildsite!