New Year, New Game

A new competition has been introduced! This years’s competition is called POWER UP, and it has a retro video game theme.

Parents, students, and mentors came to the Chartiers Valley tech wing this Saturday to watch the kick-off videos, which is aired lived from the FIRST Twitch channel.

Immediately after watching the video, our team went to work, reading the manual and making sure we understood each part of the game.

In summary, the game is about using yellow boxes called Power Cubes to gain points on the field. The Power Cubes can be placed on one side of the Switch or the Scale to outweigh the opposing team, or they can be used to activate power-ups and gain a temporary advantage. At the end of the game, robots can climb onto a rung on the Scale to gain more points.

At our first official meeting today, we created a decision matrix to weigh the pros and cons of tackling each part of the game.

-Vicky

Waiting for Kickoff

A decision matrix to determine our robot's focus

Sketching our some ideas