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Explorer Post 1010 registered team 160 in the 2020
Botball Educational Robotics program.
We formed our team in the fall 2019 and developed our skills with last year's robots.
The Game for 2020 was revealed in
January. We sent several members to the Botball Workshop at Maryland University in College Park on Saturday/Sunday, January
25/26.
Here are the Workshop Slides.
The next week we kicked off
eight weeks of intensive robot development, working toward
in a regional tournament in April. We started in our lab
at Johns Hopkins University on Medical Center Dr. We
created our
documentation video.
And then the pandemic hit. JHU closed and moved out. We
moved to the Rockville Science Center in downtown
Rockville. We built a complete game table
in their storefront and started testing. We worked week to week with
some hope that we would have a normal summer in 2020.
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Science Center Storefront
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Weeks stretched into months, and months stretch
into a year. Seniors left for college, others
dropped, and a few
new members joined in the fall of 2020. The team
continued to work week to week.
The Post registered in the on-line tournaments held in the spring of 2021 - March, April, and May.
We tried several different solutions to the game.
We would not finish this project until August
2021. We were glad to move on after 20 months.
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Our Team 2021 |
Austin Chen
Ivan Solovieff
James Diaz
Lennard Poliakov
Leo Solorzano
Nate Davis
Samson Pak
Zain Zarger
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April 2021 Tournament
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May 2021 Tournament
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Global Conference on Educational Robotics
The Post participated in the annual GCER event on July
31. We submitted a
Botball promotional video a few
days before.
We came in 8th
Overall out of 15 teams with
Seeding 6th place. The last seeding
round we scored our highest for the whole program,
Double Elimination and
Awards completed the event. We videoed
one last run to show how we planned for it to work.
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GCER July 2021 Tournament
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