Sam chose first and went for the Regionals Champions City Shaper. John selected the Nationals 2nd Champions Into Orbit. Annie picked the Regionals 2nd Champions Into Orbit. Jacob got the Regionals Champion Hydrodynamics. Aram wanted the Regionals 2nd place Robot performance City Shaper; Louis took the Regionals 1st place Robot performance Animal Allies. Elsie chose the Regionals 1st place robot performance Nature’s Fury. And finally, poor Josh had to take the only trophy remaining, the 1st place Project Trash Trek.
Today we were joined by Ophelia, Louis’ little sister who came with him, and Gabriel M-B, a former team member.
After all that we discussed things like: what changes we would make to the robot before the nationals; the project and how to tweak people’s lines to bring it up to standard for the Nationals; who was going to take responsibility for the Core Values and the Robot Design. In the end we decided that the Project would be sorted out by John, Sam and Jacob would look to improve Mission on the table, Louis would take care of the Core Values presentation/ interview with help from Annie, and Sam would set up the Robot design presentation/interview.
We were right in the middle of an AMAZING lunch, when the post came. This may not seem very exciting, but there, on the Dymond’s doorstep, were the judges’ notes on our Project, Core Values and Robot Design. We pressed eagerly around Sam as he opened the package, we had come first on Core Values😊, first on Project😊, and first on Robot design😊!! We all got a look at the judges’ notes, and then continued eating our pizza.
After lunch we all went outside for a bit of fresh air and exercise. When we came back inside John, Sam, Jacob and Louis played RISK, while the others played Exploding Kittens. Then Sam, Louis, Jacob, and John (in turn) played a 3-player game called Sequence while the others continued playing Exploding Kittens. Then there was a mixture of Othello, games outside and just general chat.
Altogether it was a highly enjoyable Pizza Party!!
Louis
Team member