Team 2875 MITiBot MITiBot (Mighty-Bot not Mitty-Bot) Jared Bessette-Kirton Daughters Day April 2009

Team 2875 MITiBot In The Beginning ROLL hosted summer Lego robotics workshops The task –Two people –One robot –Four challenges –One ROLL mentor

Team 2875 MITiBot The Team Members − Ben Chang − Ben List − Daniel Biedrzycki − David Rayson − Jared Bessette-Kirton − Kim Yie − Matt Waldron Mentors − Brian Shucker − John Peabody

Team 2875 MITiBot Face Off 30 second autonomous 2 minutes driver controlled Score plastic hockey pucks –1 point square –3 point circle –5 point triangle

Team 2875 MITiBot Playing Field

Team 2875 MITiBot Engineering Design Process 1.Define problem 2.Brainstorm solutions 3.Pick best solutions 4.Prototype solution 5.Test solution 6.Evaluate and return to step 2 with issues in design 7.Communicate final design

Team 2875 MITiBot Our Design Process 1.Win Game 2.Bucket design 1.On arm 2.On body of robot 3.Gear tower with bucket 4.KO Robot Rally 5.MA and CT state championships Final Robot

Team 2875 MITiBot

Team meetings Team meets once a week for 4 hours Plans for meeting Organize tasks Wrap up Plans for next meeting

Team 2875 MITiBot 2875-MITiBot Competitions –Robot Rally –Massachusetts State Championship Second place –Connecticut State Championship First Place –FTC World Championship Semi-Finalist

Team 2875 MITiBot At the Event Qualifying matches –Two qualifying points per win –Ranking points number of points opponents score Top 4 teams go to alliance slection –Teams pick two other teams for championship rounds Judged awards –Inspire

Team 2875 MITiBot Questions?