8th Grade - Congratulations to the Robotics Sumo Competition

 Congratulation to Team...

RICE and BEANS

The winner from the first half of the year had to wait until the second half determined their winner. Then it was the best of 5 matches to determine the overall winner. Which they did in 2 straight wins, lost one and then another win to end 3-1.

Congrats!!!! Job Well Done. 

8th Grade - Sumo Competition will occur next week.

 To all 8th Grade students

As you can see from the pictures showing only some of the qualified robots, teams are ready for next weeks Sumo Competition. Good Luck to all. 

8th grade - Introduction to Robotics

 8th grade - Introduction to Robotics

The first class of 8th Grade student have completed the Binary worksheets and are now working on Robotics Projects. The remaining 8th grade classes will be finishing very soon and will also be moving onto Robotics

The students will first build their starting robot then start in on the "Driving Test" by completing all four objectives. 

1. 5-3-4

2. Parallel Parking

3. Block Push (Called the O'Brian)

4. Slalom Course 

If any student(s) has not completed their project(s) please see Mr. Falcon to obtain any extra help they may request and/or to make up any work. 

8th grade - Winners of the Sumo Competition!!!!!

 Congratulations to the team of .....Guff123

They won by beating  Team Roomba in a very close best of 7 match 4-3. 

8th Grade Sumo Robotics Competition Schedules

 We are happy to announce the Round Robin Schedules for the second half of the year are set up and ready to be played. Next week teams will have their robot inspected in order to qualify for the competition. Reminder of the most important requirements: 

1. Robots may not move or expand for the first 5 seconds of all matches. 

2. Robots must fit in the 8"x 7" box and not expand until after the 5 seconds.

3. Robots must have their cables routing internally to protect them. 

4. All sensor must be protected from contact except the button which requires contact. 

 8-15 Sumo Competition Schedule Schedule

8-16 Sumo Competition Schedule Schedule

8-17 Sumo Competition Schedule Schedule

8-18 Sumo Competition Schedule Schedule

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Best of luck to all teams, may the best Bot win!!!!

8th grade Lego Mindstorm Sumo Sectional Winners

 The following teams should be congratulated for a job well done winning their class sections. Below you can see the Tournament Schedule for the sectional finals. Pictures of each winner is also below.  

Sectional Finals Round Robin listing

8 - 11

8 - 12 

8 - 13

8 - 14

8th Grade - Lego Mindstorm Sumo competition live updates

 To everyone interested in watching the Sumo competition live:

The following links will be updated as the competitions occur. Each class will have their own Ranking Table and the Round Match Ups link. 

8-11

8-11 Ranking Table

Round Match Ups

8-12

8-12 Ranking Table

Round Match Ups

8-13

8-13 Ranking Table

Round Match Ups

8-14

8-14 Ranking Table

Round Match Ups

As classes are set up this post will be updated along with announcing the actual dates for competition. Stay Tuned. 

8th - Lego MindStorm projects have begun.

 

Students have begun building their robots and will then begin programming them to meet the requirements of the Driving Test project. Stay tuned for more updates showing the student's success. 

Sumo Competition Winners

 Today's competition allowed many different configurations which allowed the students to see how the different design had their own pros and cons. 

In First Place Team Eric  

Team Eric's strategy was to play it safe but then push the opponent around using their positional advantage. 

In Second Place Team Matt

Team Matt's strategy was one of aggression but also pausing before going for the win to make sure. 

In Third Place Team Ruby

Team Ruby's strategy was "Hug the Edge" then attack if you find the opponent. 

8th Grade Sumo competitions have begun.

One of the first battles we got to enjoy.  

Grade 8 - Robotics project 1 is underway.

To all section 1-2-3-4 8th grade students.

All 8th graders should have a working robot and should be working to complete all four driving challenges.

If you have any questions, please speak with your teacher on getting the help you need during Raider Time. 

Grade 8 - Robotics Sumo Competition Winner

To all 8th grade students.

The finals for the EVEN cycle produced a winner after some exciting matches. That winner then met the winner from the ODD cycle. After 5 hard fought matches the winner for the 8th grade was....

From 8-3

Congratulations to Matt and Jack from Team Better Dan Them,

8th Grade SUMO Robotics competition covered by local media

It's always nice to see students hard work covered by the local media so when I learned South Coast released a story about the ODD section winners of the Lego SUMO competition I had to post it here.

South Coast Today - Students Advance in Robotics Tournament

Please head over to the comment section and show your support.

Please note: Photo is the property of South Coast and only used here for educational purposes. South Coast retains all rights.

Grade 8 - Robotics project 1 - Driving tests - Is due

To all ODD section 8th grade students.

If you have not completed all four objectives from the Driving Test Lego Mindstorm project, please speak with your teacher. All 8th graders should be finishing up the Light Sensor project and starting the UltraSonic project.

If you have any questions, please speak with your teacher on getting the help you need.

Grade 8 - We have a Lego SumoBot Winner!!!!

Congratulations to all 8th grade students who competed in this years Lego SumoBot competition

Here is how the day played out.

To start, we had to determine a winner for 8-2 and four teams showed they were the teams too beat.

Block
ASADA
Circuit Breakers
Todd

The top two teams, Block and ASADA ended up tied after 9 round robin rounds so a single elimination ti-breaker was held with Block taking the win. That meant the EVEN cycle finals could begin.

The teams who qualified were

8-2
8-6
8-8

8-2 beat 8-6
8-6 beat 8-8
8-2 beat 8-8

Making 8-2 the winner of the EVEN cycle. That left only two teams, The winners from the ODD and EVEN cycle.

The team of Kyle and Megan from 8-1 proved too strong for 8-2,  winning three straight games in a solid fashion. Here is the winning match.

Congratulations To Kyle and Megan Winners of the 2018 SumoBot Compeition!!!!!!

Grade 8 Lego Sumo competition Results So Far

If you are interested in seeing how your favorite team(s) are doing, follow this link to see all the rankings.

Tournament Schedule - Round Robin for Section 8-2

The above photo shows the craziest moment of the competition for far, how neither team went off is a miracle.

When 8th graders return from their trip we will conclude this competition.

Stay Tuned

Grade 8 - EVEN cycle Sumo Competition Schedule

To all EVEN section 8th grade students.

Here are the competition dates for the Sumo Competition.

Section 8-2   June 5th  (E day)
Section 8-4   June 5th  (E day)

Section 8-6   June 6th  (F Day)

Section 8-8   June 6th  (F Day)

Section 8-10 June 4th  (D day)

EVEN Section finals date TBD. 

Overall Finals - Winners of ODD 
and EVEN cycles will compete
on June 18th. Winner to be
announced at 8th grade
assembly on June 20th.

Your robot must pass inspection prior to your competitions. 

If you have any questions see Mr. Falcon ASAP to get them answered .  

Robotics Week 8th Grade Activities

The 8th graders began National robotics week with a quick inventory of their Lego Mindstorm boxes. Once completed they started building their first robot to complete a series of driving tests. 

Engineering / Technology Dept now has a YouTube Channel

To all students, parents, and staff

Unfortunately our current set up with blogger  has a file size limit which our SuGo Competition is breaking. In order to get around this limitation we got ourselves our own YouTube channel to highlight student work.

A few things of note, any student can contact the teacher directly and obtain any video they are in. Also we have turned the comment moderation feature on so we won't have to put up with people who are less then positive.

At this very moment we are uploading SuGo competition videos. We hope you like them.

Here is but one of the many videos we are working on.

Grade 8 - We have a Sumo Bot Winner

They say football is a game of inches...

Well I say Robotics is a game of centimeters because that's how close the overtime final of the Sumo Bot competition turned out to be.  

Congratulations to .....

The Magical Walrus' who pulled out what can only be described as a down to the wire win. 

After 5 rounds of round robin play two teams ended up tied. 8-1 and 8-3. 

So we went to a tie-breaker. Each team then won a match so that meant it would all come down to one final match. We ran the clock but quite honestly we were going until someone won. When this did occur the difference between both teams were separated by mere centimeters. 

The ODD section has their winner and will now await the winner of the EVEN section winner some time towards the end of the school year.

Work has already begun on getting all the finals matches online for all to see.