September 29, 2010

The J.B. Sutton student's were so titillate to finish the pieces they been working on. I was helping a girl named Dominique she was having a little trouble following the instruction. So we took the pieces apart and started all over from the begging. We carefully went thorough the instruction. Each time we moved on to the next step I ask her "does the piece look like the picture. I hope on monday we can get done. She is learning fast now everytime we move on to another step she even makes fun of me by repeating the question I keep asking her.   

September 28, 2010

The kid at J.B. Sutton were excited to start building the kit. I was helping look for the parts they need. They always say "I can't find the piece" but when I went to look for it I always found. Most kid didn't have problems with the directions and putting the parts together. Many were delighted because the finish their part of the kit that they needed to build many got bored because they didn't have things to do. So we have to wait for the people that weren't done. My group didn't get to finish but I hope we finish tomorrow.

September 27, 2010

My third day of mentoring. I hope they got their Lego Kit I want to start helping them build. Joach and I went to J.B. Sutton. We meet Mr. Jones at the computer lab. He told us "the kit is finally here." I was really exultant because we can finally build. The computer didn't want to take the disk with the instruction. I was mad we tried and tried but it didn't work. Finally Mr. Jones decided to go somewhere else to put the disk and print the instruction out. He printed them out but it was to late we had to leave.

September 24, 2010

On friday I was watching John Harris was making a code for the robot. I didn't understand anything he was saying because I am new to the programming team. I need a laptop to advance because if I had a laptop it will be easy I could take the data home.

September 21, 2010

Second day of Mentoring. Two people decided to go with me Staphany and Rebecca. The team was happy that they got to play with lego pieces. It was fun because the little kids were excited to play with the lego. Staphany told me "that all the kids there look up to us as rodel models." I was shocked because a kid actually knew my name. I can't believe me can make such an impact in someone's life.

September 20,2010

First day of mentoring I am so excited about helping the lego league. When I got their the team was bigger than I expected. There was fourteen fifth and fourth grades. We just watch videos and did research. I want to go back tommorrow.

September 18, 2010

We arrived in San Diego City College.They had a large team compare to University California, San Diego. They lack of programers they only have one programmer. They sort of copied the design of seabotix. The hardest part the programming. I talk to the guy that did programming he said "if he was not there the team will have a big set back." I told him "why they didn't collaborated with the other teams in San Diego to atleast try to win the AUV competition.

Seabotix's Robot

University of California, San Diego's Robot

September 16-17, 2010

The trip was incrediable. The first day was really long took us 6 hours to get there. When we went to see Seabotix the robots blew me away. The capability of the robots was increadible. The robots could pull a human out of the water. I found out that human can survive 90 minutes underwater if the water is really cold. There is were the robot comes in and saves the day. They can be use to fish and explore under water ship recks. We went to UCSD (University of California, San Diego) the robot had an incredible design. They didn't really have us a straight answer about the what camera to use. He have us alot of information about information. It helped us alot.

September 14, 2010

We had a meeting about seaboxtics. Coach Freddy was frustated because no one help him do research. He told us to read the manual for the AUV because we need to ask question to the people that have build AUV. If we are not prepare then we won't get anything from the trip to Sam Diego.

September 8, 2010

I watch Hugo painting the frame of the robot. I wish I could of help it looked extraordinary. He was almost done but unfortunately we ran out of paint. When we went to the play room there we kids that are home school. They are really smart they ask many question to Coach Freddy. It was funny because they keep taking pictures of Coach Freddy. Coach Freddy is a celebrity to people in FIRST. To people in Team 842 he is an inspiration because he always pushes us to do more than the best and to work hard. The kids had a lot of ideas I was shocked because of there age when I was there age never worried about build a lego robot.

September 7

I brought four duct tapes and one. I met a politician at AGUILA's office.

August 30- September 2

On monday we were cutting the frames with Eddie. Joach and Isaac cut it perfect. I was jeolous because I didn't do it right. Everyone learns from their mistakes. So who doesnt start making mistakes then they won't learn anything. On Tuesday I was watching Dilan and a group of new students putting on the frames together. I arrive a little late because I was doing math homework. On Wednesday Dilan, Martin and I were trying to set up the tires in the middle of the hinges so they won't move when the robot moves. We had it easy until there was a tire that was giving us problems because it wasn't fitting in the middle. Elizabeth was sreaming at us because we didn't hurry up. On Thursday we watch the movie "2 million minutes" it was made me want to study more and do all my homework. It was ironic because Johns's roomate walk-in and he was Chinese. He was really impress with the robot we had.