Lego Meeting Summary: 8/22/2013

Hello BrickBusters,
            In today's meeting, we reviewed what we had learned in the last meeting about the Move Block in the NXT Programming Software. In addition, we learned about the functions of light/color sensors on the robot, and loops. Then, in the same groups that we worked in the last meeting, we worked on an assignment in which we had to program the robot in such a way that it would move, touch a black line on the mat, and then come back to its original position. This activity helped learn and get used to using the light sensor so we can implement it when designing our robot. Another big thing that happened in today's meeting were that we voted on the Team Cheer and the Team Logo. Samarth's Team Cheer and Team Logo had the most votes, so they "won". In his Team Cheer. everyone lines up by age(youngest to oldest or oldest to youngest; depending upon the way that you look at the line). Shaun counts down to 1 from 3, and then the cheer begins. Shane starts a wave with his hands, and then everyone does that all the way down to Sriya and back to Shane. When the wave is passing from Shane to Sriya, everyone says "Brick!" and on the way back up to Shane, everyone says "Busters!" We are also going to include Shaun's idea into Samarth's cheer, which that at the end of the cheer, we are going to kick or push a foam block that we are going to use as a brick. Samarth's Team Logo was a wall of bricks that has bricks coming out from the center of it. Around the wall are the pictures of all of us. This shows that we all work very hard together to "bust" the wall.

Reminders:

1. If you haven't downloaded the NXT Programming Software yet, be sure to do so. If you have, try to experiment around with it just to get used to the different features.
2. The meetings next week are going to be on Tuesday and Thursday at the same time.

Thanks, and Go BrickBusters!!!,
           Srikar