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What is something that you think is unique about your robot this season? What about your robot do you think would make it stand out at competition?

What types of Outreach do you plan to do for this season? Which of those Outreach initiatives are you most proud of?

We use YouTube to show our design ideas and data that we have gathered, we have hosted 4 camps for the season to teach participants about STEM, Fusion 360, rocketry, and FLL Robotics. We plan on sending custom robot kits to the Dominican Republic with a team member on a mission trip, and lots of more demos. Of all of these we are most proud of our robot kits being sent to the Dominican Republic.

Describe an element of your code which you think will be most advantageous to your performance over the season.

Our programming team uses commands allowing to do multiple actions at once speeding up our robot. We also use various sensors to eliminate human error to speed up our cycle times.

What competitions will you be attending? Which of the ones that you listed are you looking forward to the most?

We will be attending our 3 league meets and our division qualifier. We hope to attend the Illinois State Competition and even go on to Worlds and compete at the Chicago Robotics Invitational.

How will you be organizing your team at competitions?

We have team members dedicated to being at our pit for anyone who wants to talk to our team, our drive team, a scouting team to determine who would be good choices for elimination matches, and a media team responsible for our livestream at our league meets and Division Qualifier.

Describe a unique or noteworthy strategic device or element that you think would be useful for this game.

Being able to make specimens on your robot would be able to speed up cycle times for cycling specimens.

How would you describe your design process? How many options/strategies do you compare? How do you visualize your designs before building?

Our design process consists of the following steps: Research, Concept, Design, Build, Test, Review. Our design process doesn't always have to follow this order. We compare all strategies and ideas offered by any team member and often use a whiteboard to quickly explain ideas to each other.

How do you divide your team's time between things like design, building, programming etc. Do you enforce this timing? If so, why?