At the beginning of the school year, I joined Computer Club. About 2 months after I joined Computer Club, I signed up for basketball. Towards the end of the season, I joined Science Bowl, and I did this for about 3 months. I did this at lunch and before school. We had come so close to winning. We were first defeated by one Computech Team 1, we then defeated and eliminated Computech Team 3. We were very close to winning but were eliminated.
After Science Bowl had ended, I signed up for Robotics in which we did the Line Follower which we spent about 3 months on, but it did not place. Our battle bot on the other hand placed 3rd, and we had only 3 weeks to build it and about a day and a half to practice. We need to come with something different because most schools are going to copy our design for the popping mechanism. I then began Spelling Bee this Tuesday, and I placed 13th out of 33. Not bad for 3 days of practice. I now am going to start Boy's Volleyball. If you haven't been able to tell, my schedule is very busy.
Our robotics tournament is tomorrow, and I need to practice with the battle bot. I am doing the line follower and the battle bot. For the line follower, we had to program our robot to be able to follow a black line with white space around it. Since we were not able to program our robot to follow the line since the light sensors were to wide, we programmed it to follow the white space around the black line instead. Also, we have to do a live challenge. In our live challenge, they are going to tell us to make changes to the robot or to our program. I find this ridiculous since our live challenge is before the actual event, so this going to be interesting.
For battle bot, there are 2 controllers on our team since I want to control the battle bot, and one of the other kids in our group wants to control the battle bot. We argued over this for a long time. The thing that I don't think is fair is that when Prabhmeet, the other kid who wants to control the battle bot, was building the robot, he always practiced. I had told him then that we can practice afterwards, right now lets just build the battle bot. Instead, he continued to practice. Now, when I practice, he wants to practice which I think is unfair.
Earlier I was eating my lunch in Mr. Aberle's room and from their I decided to go to the quad and play whatever game that they were going to host. Today it was The Hunger Games, Computech Edition. Right before I was about to play the game, Timothy came into the quad and told me Robbie is waiting to play the Chess Match from last week. I had felt so stupid since Robbie probably was waiting for the last 20 minutes and I was eating lunch and watching "The Hunger Games". We were only able to play for about 8 minutes, and then we had to start packing up to go to our next class which in my case is Computers and same with Robbie.
For Science Bowl, Mrs. Poole said that we can start coming in next week and practicing for next year's event. Thing that sucks is that I have Robotics before school, after school, and possibly at lunch so I will not be able to practice for an entire week. I still think that my team should have won and the first have lost. Jacob Sutton said that your allowed a 2 second pause when you buzz in while Nester on his team had about a 5-6 second pause. I was so mad and after the match I asked him if he thought that it was a stall and he said yes. Even though he knew stalled, he said that you are allowed a 2 second pause. I was so mad at him for cheating and his excuse was you would have done the same thing.
Interesting thing is, as I leave one club, I join another club. In my case, I joined Chess Club first. Then there was Science Bowl, and I was interested in Science Bowl so I joined. I did Science Bowl for around 2 months and now I am finally going back to Chess Club, and I have Robotics afterschool with Mr.West. It seems like I have my plateful and I am very busy. That is true. For Chess Club we had a tournament which was my first tournament a while back. I had a lot of fun there, but the thing is I didn't place. I was a bit upset, but I asked one of my other friends on the Chess Club team who didn't place how many tournaments has he been to. He answered about 20 which I found funny. I almost placed in my first tournament, and my friend didn't place at all after 20 tournaments.
In Robotics, there are three of us in a group; Corbin, Prabhmeet, and me. The three of us usually argue and fight alot, and it is surprising the amount of work we still get done. Now, we are almost done with our line follower which me and Corbin are working. Prabhmeet has been working on the Battle Bot, and it seems like he has made no progress. All he does is screw around with the controls. I mean really! Is that all you do during Robotics. All he did yesterday was add a layer of two pieces to the Battle Bot in 40 minutes. That is just wasting time. He really hasn't been doing anything for the past few days. I don't know if he is practicing the controls so he could be the Battle Bot controller even though our group has chosen me, but I am very confused.
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