After staying back many hours in the last two weeks to perfect our robot, my team has finally tasted the sweetness of success. on Saturday, we went to the Science Centre to take part in "RoboChampion" something equivilent to a west-zone competition.
We had to control our robots using a remote and drop ping pong balls in a certain pit at the other end of the playing field we were starting from. that part was easy, but the terrain was difficult to navigate. The playing field was not smooth but was instead the underside of a smooth playing field, which was very rugged.. It made the competition a whole lot harder.
Firstly, our robot "disintegrated" in the first round and we only had 1 robot to complete the mission. this was a major setback. Later on, the other robot also fell apart due to unknown reasons. However, our team was not discouraged and tried our best to repair the robot. I have to admit that we were quite lucky. The opponents made many silly mistakes. Really silly mistakes like falling into a hole when they were just about to score and trying to tilt our robot but causing their own robot to fall in the end.
Our team managed to clinch third while another HCI team got the championship award. Seniors were elated because they said that the school will increase the EP3's budget. I hope they would!
Reflections
This time, we won aa medal, yes we did. But it would not have been possible without teamwork. A team must stick together during trying times to be able to rise up from the crowd. True team spirit shows when a team is in trouble. A good team tries to solve the problem, a bad team tries to blame the person. That is what I learnt.
P.S. I had negative points but I still got 3rd!
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