Our live moonbot outreach event is complete!

Today we completed our live outreach event at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.  We will be uploading our final video soon, but special thanks to Michelle & Umar (pictured below) who helped get us setup in the conference center, as well as all of the people who stopped by to watch.  We had a great time.  All of our missions didn't work the first time, but we were able to show the kids who stopped to watch our programs how the robot works, and we even had someone ask how to get involved in FLL.  That's awesome!

Building our moonbot table

Today we were working on building our board for moonbots. We can't wait until we get to start programming!   ~Nathan

Our Senior Mentor - Ms. Joyce

Today we met with our senior mentor for the first time - Ms. Joyce.   We interviewed her about what she did as a child, things that might be harder for her now that she is older, and any advice she had for us.

Working on missions

We've been working on building our new robot.  The missions have been divided up, and each of our team members are going to take two missions to program.  We've also started working on the research project.  Each of our team members has come up with questions to ask our Senior Mentor - Ms. Joyce.  We're going to meet with her next week and hopefully come up with our topic for the research project.

Visit to Goddard Visitor Center!

Nathan and Brendan went to Goddard Visitor Center today to do a site visit.  It was cool.  The rocket garden and the auditorium would both be great places to hold our live webcast.

Starting Phase 2

Today we started learning about our lunar landscape .

 We also had a fun time together while enjoying our relaxing time .

  We sketched out our design on the tiles

We just started making our moon bots project so we can make it to Hawaii .We talked about the missions, where to put them and how many points they're worth .

 Will

We made it to Phase 2!!

We are so excited!  We checked the website last night and we made it to Phase 2 for the moonbot competition!  

Next we get to create our lunar landscape design and make up a mission for our robot.  We can't wait to get to work!