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Next Meeting: Friday, November 15, 2008 -- Second Friday of every month.
Time: 7:00 - 9:30pm
Place: Piedmont Technical College - Room 197A or 14A
News
GRIP was pleased to have the robot team from Bell Street Middle School in Clinton SC visit. The Clinton team is competing in the Science Olympiad's Robo-Cross. They will travel to Washington DC to compete. Piedmont Tech. and Kevin Moore was able to give the team a big helping hand by providing them with a new base and electronic system for their robot and other members also helped by giving them ideas and small parts to finish the manipulator.
March 7, 2008 Meeting
FIRST Lego League Greenwood Scrimmage
The FLL scrimmage was a great success, it went off without a hitch. We had 7 teams from around the state and we gave out 10 awards, every team went home a winner.
"We appreciate your efforts to host the scrimmage. It was a huge morale booster for our team, the kids were able to more than double their performance score from 1st to 3rd round. I was more than shocked at the outcome. I was hoping they would get a feel for what an actual event is like since most of them have never seen a tournament."
Thanks again!
David Leeke
Langston Charter Middle School
Special thanks to thank the members of the CyberStorm team for their work on putting this event together.
For more pictures of the FLL scrimmage go to FLL scrimmage Pictures
November 2, 2007 Meeting
The student board members of GRIP presented a thank-you gift to Piedmont Technical College for their support over the past year. PTC has enabled GRIP to have monthly meetings and other activities to reach out to the Greenwood community.
Also in the last meeting we continued Lego Mindstorm training and getting ready for November's GRIP build-off.
The 1st night of the build off went very well. The group divided up into 3 teams and everyone started working on building and programming. Time when by fast. One team was able to build two robots and complete two challenges, the maze and a basket. Check out the rules and layout of what we are doing for this build off.
The challenge will be played on a 4 X 8 foot play field. Your team's job is to create two autonomous robots to perform the tasks in the table below.
Each team will have 2 turns and the best total points of the 2 will be used for that teams score.
A turn is when both robots for a team have run.
There's a time limit of 3 minutes for each turn.
For a task to be complete:
The robot cannot be touched between the time it leaves the base and the time it has completed the task. Once the task has been completed the robot may be removed from the playfield.
For the maze task, the robot must use ultrasonic sensors. The maze may be dynamic, but the starting point and maze complexity will stay the same.
For the cans task, the goal is to move all of the white cans out of their circle, without moving the black cans. Color recognition sensors will be required.
The ball task will require loading a ball onto the robot and the robot will deliver it to a basket.
For the bonus task, the robot must place a ball into one of the black cans without moving it.
Task list and points values
Maze Points
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•Without touching the walls 100
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•Touching the walls 70
Cans
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•Cans (two black and three white)
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•Each white can totally out of the circle 50
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•Each white can partially out of the circle 10
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•For any can tipped over -10
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•Each black can partially or totally out of the circle -30
Ball
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•Put the ball in basket 1 50
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•Put the ball in basket 2 120
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•Bonus: Put a ball in a black can without move the can 100
October 5, 2007 Meeting
The student board members of GRIP presented a thank-you gift to Piedmont Technical College for their support over the past year. PTC has enabled GRIP to have monthly meetings and other activities to reach out to the Greenwood community.
Also in the last meeting we continued Lego Mindstorm training to get ready for November's GRIP build-off.
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October 10, 2008 - Meeting Canceled
The October 10th GRIP meeting at Piedmont Tech has been canceled for this month. The Cyber Storm are preparing for the upcoming season in Jan. and are also preparing for the FIRST Lego League scrimmage in December. We are sorry for any trouble.
The GRIP FIRST Lego League Scrimmage Announcement:
When: December 13, 2008
Where: Greenwood, SC local mall
When: December 13, 2008 Starting 9:30am to 2pm
Where: Greenwood Mall Highway 72 Bypass Greenwood SC
This practices event gives teams the ability to compete under less pressure, and show off their teamwork. It is intended to be a fun event and give participants a feeling of an official competition.
The scrimmage will be limited to 10 teams and picked on first to apply basis.
Registration fee is $35.00
Contact: Dyke Dean, dykedean@gmail.com (864) 980-5426
Host: CyberStorm and GRIP
CyberStorm is the Greenwood FIRST FRC Team 2430
GRIP (Greenwood Robotics Interactive Partners and team Cyber Storm) is a community technology club for students and adults. www.gripus.org
Sponsor: To be announced
Scrimmage Awards
Robot Performance: Based solely the performance of team's robots during competition.
Technical: Based on robot design, program and originality
Teamwork: Based on aspects of Gracious Professionalism
Research Poster Contest: The contest will be judged on the poster as well as the team members' explanation of their poster.
There will not be any presentation judging.
Disclaimer: This event is sanctioned by FLL, but will not count as a regional competition, and will not count towards acceptance the state competition. The organizing committee reserves the right or change to cancel the event.
2008 Greenwood FLL Scrimmage
