September 15, 2018

Today, we decided our team name would be BERZERK. This is a big change from our previous years! We still did other things, don't worry. That includes:

1. Anuva sharing her research on clothes washing. Spencer also suggested that we find the mass of a year's worth of clothing on a one person mission to space.
2. We did a lot with the robot, finally!
1. Drew a map of all of the missions, and which runs they correspond to
2. We need a small robot, so we built a small robot'
3. Started work on an attachment for the payloads
4. Made a Core Sample box to carry them back to base
5. Came up with other attachments

Today was a big step with the robot, so that's always nice. Hopefully we can get a lot more of our stuff done soon - we still have a lot of work to do! See you later!

September 11, 2018

Today, we brainstormed for the project. We came up with many ideas, and here are a couple we came up with.

1. A rail and a cart with a camera mounted on it to go around the ship and look for issues. The rail would be a hugely innovative thing.
2. Washing clothes in space. We had a ton of discussion on this. One idea was to have the astronauts exercise to run it. But, we had more questions.
1. What do the astronauts do with the dirty clothes currently?
2. What would the size of the machine be?
3. What would the most efficient way to do it be?
4. How would we dry the clothes?
5. Would we use detergent, and if so, what detergent?
6. Can we re-use washing water?
7. What kind of experts would we need? Clothes washing experts? NASA?

We're still debating what project to go with, but the clothes washing one seems better since there is more to it. We'll decide in the coming practices. See you next time!

Team BERZERK

This is our team. We're a group of people who have all done Lego League for quite a few years. You'll be able to learn about all of us from this post!

Anisha
Has been doing FLL for :  years
Hobbies: Running
Specialties: Programming
Fun fact: She has a cool house with solar panels

Anuva
Has been doing FLL for : 3 years
Hobbies: Shawn Mendes
Specialties: Project Recearch / Interviews
Fun fact: She is short

Claire
Has been doing FLL for : 5 years
Hobbies: Reading, dancing, drawing
Speciaties: Building
Fun fact: She has too much fun

Cody
Has been doing FLL for : 5 years
Hobbies: Video Games, YouTube, tuba
Speciaties: Programmer
Fun fact: He is autistic

Max
Has been doing FLL for : 4 years
Hobbies: Video Games, football, cello
Speciaties: Builder
Fun fact: His football team has not been scored on this seasob

Soren
Has been doing FLL for : 3 years
Hobbies: Theater, video games
Speciaties: Project
Fun fact: He went on tour for a Broadway show

Coaches
Andy

Robert

Spencer

Steve
Has been coaching FLL for : 6 years
Hobbies: LEGO
Job: Programming supercomputers
Fun fact: He watches Cody play Fortnite

September 8, 2018

Today, we looked through every mission at Anisha's house and came up with a plan for our mission runs. We also decided that we're going to need a forklift and a small robot.

We have 4 runs:

1. Using the forklift to send down the payloads and pick them up, and push the Solar Array
2. Habitation Hub, Core Samples
3. 3D Printer, Exercise area, and crater
4. Escape Velocity, Observatory, turn their solar array towards them, food growth, and then stop

The third run is basically optional. We've got a lot of missions to undertake.