Robotics Team

This year, the kids' elementary school started a robotics team for kids in grades three and up, which Olivia joined.  Olivia absolutely loved participating on this team and looked forward to her weekly practice.  During the first several meetings, the team worked on learning about robots, STEM, and the correct terminology that would be used to assemble the robots.  After a month or so of this, the students began working in small groups to assemble the robots.  Once the robots were assembled, the team met to practice the skills that would be needed for competition.  The sponsors had hoped to host an elementary competition, but there are no other elementary robotics teams in our area, so it was a no-go.  Instead, they decided to end the year by having a skills competition with all of the members of the team competing against each other.  The kids took turns driving the robot through an obstacle course.  They received points for completing each obstacle.  Olivia did well on her run (below).  She did hit one cone, but had a clean run other than that.  She and another kid ended up tied for first, and they had to defer to time to see who completed the course the fastest.  Wouldn't you know they had the exact same time.  So, they had to run the course a second time.  Olivia's had a perfect second run, and she ended up in first place.  She is really looking forward to participating in this activity again next year.