Explorer Post 1010 registered team 160 in the 2024
Botball Educational Robotics program.
We formed our team in the fall of 2023 with a few new
members. We developed our robots at the Rockville
Science Center storefront with meetings on Wednesday and
some Saturdays.
Fall Competition
The program organizers, KIPR, created a fall competition
that gave us a focus for the team. The game was an
initial view of the game to be released in January. We
signed up to compete and received some game parts. We
used equipment and parts from the previous years.
There were 16 teams in the on-line competition on December 10.
We were ranked 10th in seeding.
We lost two matches in double elimination and ended 13th
overall.
It was a great activity for the new members to learn about Botball robotics.
The DC area regional tournament
was held at Great Mills High School, in southern Maryland on April 29, 2023. Our team did well. There were 17 teams.
We came in 5th in seeding
and 5th overall.
We lost match 53 to Dead Robots Society in a
struggle over BotGal. If for the light wire holding
the DRS cube stack, we might have won.
Global Conference on Educational Robotics
(schedule)
We sent a team of three members to GCER 2024, held
at the World Golf Village Renaissance St. Augustine
Resort, North Carolina
(permission form).
Several other members helped get the robots working before the trip.
The game changed significanly between the regional tournament and GCER.
We mande significant changes in our robot and strategy.
