Feedback from yesterday.

Thanks for participating in the Naperville Blue. We hope that your day went well and that your team had fun. Below are links to the Judge's Feedback and Table Scores. Please use this information as a learning experience for the team members.

Table Scoresheet Feedback - Round 1 (141)
Table Scoresheet Feedback - Round 2 (115)
Table Scoresheet Feedback - Round 3 (103)
Table Scoresheet Feedback - Round 4 (93)
Core Values Feedback - Round 1
Project Feedback - Round 1
Robot Design Feedback - Round 1

The Naperville Blue results can be viewed at Awards and Scoreboard.

We express the FIRST philosophies of Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition through our Core Values:

• Discovery: We explore new skills and ideas.
• Innovation: We use creativity and persistence to solve problems.
• Impact:  We apply what we learn to improve our world.
• Inclusion: We respect each other and embrace our differences.
• Teamwork: We are stronger when we work together.
• Fun: We enjoy and celebrate what we do!

Please write down your understanding about the core value that is assigned to you:

Discovery:  Chungtai, Jeremy

Innovation: Arthur, Ryan

Impact:  Nathan, Kathryn

Inclusion:  Chungtai, Zoey

Teamwork: Ben, Jonathan

Fun:   Sophia, Zoey

Hey Chinese School prezentashen

Hi people the presentation for Chinese school should be shared with all district 203 members. For students in district 204, the presentation is shared with your parents. Here are everyone's slide assignments:

Title slide: some people
1: Chungtai
2: Kathryn
3: JonJon
4: Sophia
5: Zoey
6: Nathan
7: Ben
8: Ryan
9: Arthur

Hi people, sorry for the super late notice

If you're doing the retractable wind turbine, then you need to do some research on which of the four retractions methods discussed would be the best. Take into account the following:

• How big/heavy should the retractable turbine be?
• What kind of turbine will be used?
• How durable are each of the designs?
• Which ones can we make by the competition?
• Which can lift up/down using the least power?

Here are some places worth looking at:

https://www.elavation.net/ (scissor lift, mast lift, and boom lift)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdyxrY-SNh4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyFJ7LbthjM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HnPJz_9IZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJVWoKj2a4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOSlQn_MdNM

By Sunday, you should have your choice for which design you think is best. You should do research on it and understand how it works. You need to have a drawing of the entire collapsible wind turbine and how it will function. Also do some research on what material you think it should be made of.

Hi guys,
If you are a part of the blade design group, you will need to bring to the meeting one new blade design. Of your design, you will need to follow these directions:

1. Draw a 8 inch diameter circle (4 inch radius) on a sheet of paper using a compass (圆规)
2. from the center of the circle, draw two perpendicular lines running through the center
3. You should now have four congruent quarter circles

4. Trace out your design on one quarter circle (you only need one paper trace-out)
5. find some cardboard
6. use the paper trace-out to cut out 4 of the same blade designs
7. Bring the blades to the meeting to test them
Your blades should only be at most 4 inches in length
Please bring 4 blades. This is so we can change the number of blades that are being tested.

Here are some questions to get you started:
What is the shape of your blade?
Is the majority of the mass in your blade at the tip or in the center?
Is the blade itself large or small?
You can turn these knobs and see what happens to the energy conversion during the meeting.

Parents: If your child needs help setting the drawing the quarter circle or cutting the cardboard, you should help them. But please allow your children to design their blades themselves.

The new information from FLL and NASA

https://robotics.nasa.gov/first/2018fll.php

Evening Robot Group Agenda (9/7)

Jeremy
- Dropping the Shipment Payload for Mission 1
- Build a fork for Tube Module
Jon Jon
- C-Shape baskets for satellite orbits
- Strengthen Food Production Attachment
Sophia
- Build a basket for the 3-D printing red brick, bring the brick back to base
- Build weight for  Crater Crossing Mission
Zoey
- Drop Mineral Sample for 3-D printing mission
- Build an arm to throw the Crater Crossing weight

Please try to finish all of the work
If you have finished your work, help other people out or work on the Observatory Mission.

Programming Mindstorms

FLL gives the following links for Mindstorms programming tutorial. If you are not familiar Mindstorms programming, give a try.

Programming Mindstorms with  Matt Birkel

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wSt959mrFs

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkSkta2GGqg

Some videos about life support

space coffee cup

surface attention

robot in space

Robot evening team time line

Evening Robot Meeting Agenda

Missions to complete
- Space Travel (2 Payloads)
- Solar Panel (away)
- 3-D Printing (brick on planet)
- Crater Crossing
- Extraction (Gas in base)
- Tube Module (only docking)
- Excersize Machine (the pointer is in grey; the bar is lifted)
- Food Production
- Escape Velocity
- Satellite Orbit (all 3)
- Observatory
Expected Points: 252

Sat, September 1
Jeremy built mission one mechanical solution to tip first track section
JJ built the mechanical Food Production solution
Zoey worked on the base and built the basket for Extraction with Sophia

Sat, September 8
Jeremy will build the motorized attachment to lower the payloads for M1 and attach it to the robot
JJ will build baskets for the Satellite Orbit
Zoey and Sophia will work on the strength bar mission

Sat, September 15
- 3-D printing
Refinement of the
- food production attachment
- basket for satellite orbit
- basket for extraction


Sat, September 22
-  Escape Velocity
- Crater Crossing
- Observatory
- Tube Module

Sat, September 29
- Escape Velocity
- Refinement of Crater Crossing and Tube module
- 3-D printing basket to move to planet
- If time allows, food production water sample

8/26 meeting

We break 10 people to 3 group for next 3 meetings. each group will have a group presentation for next 3 weeks. the following is the name list for 3 groups

Group 1:  Rover Power on Mars
Nathan, Arthur,  Ben, Ryan
For group 1, the following are slides from Nathan. if you have problem to read them, please ask Nathan to send you a copy
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vaF5FdDGn0zdDY3lygV8XqJBy-_fjWSv
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BgCChJMaQPw3iCf1nj_p4HOZTRdjE063047HFz3KP4s/edit#slide=id.p
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lJutdzhc0FbBpr-f4DyL1xIQiKMUcmNpsb1mjhWzPDU/edit#slide=id.p


Group 2: Social problem in space
Chungtai, Kathryn
For group 2, have your own plan to do it.

Group3: Life support System
Sophia, Zoey, Jeremy， JJ
Group 3 please read and watch the following documents and video. Write a summary and list the ideas you think we can do (no solution needed). please send your Summary and ideas to me  @ queencai@gmail.com. Due date is 9/1

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/plant_growth.html

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/biofarming.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/meals_ready_to_eat
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/meals_ready_to_eat
https://www.towergarden.com/blog.read.html/en/2015/6/flowers_but_no_fruit.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/863.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/students-help-select-two-of-four-new-plants-heading-to-space
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/students-help-nasa-researchers-decide-what-plants-to-grow-in-space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl350shC4BY&feature=youtu.be

Meeting Minutes 8/19/18

Chungtai’s Presentation - Avoiding Space Debris

• Space Debris is random stuff floating inside space and inside Earth’s orbit
• Spaceships could collide with debris
• Current solution - pizza box detects known space debris and tries to avoid it, however there may not be enough time to avoid certain objects
• Possible solution - Reduce debris, better detection system
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Nathan’s Presentation - Paper Strength

• Pastepaper, paper used in business cards
• Problem - Get a wind turbine on Mars, very costly
• Solution - Make wind turbine out of paper, much lighter
• Force on Mars with wind would only carry 1% power compared to Earth, so paper is strong enough
• Less gravity and less wind speed on Mars
• Can take field trips in illinois

Jeremy’s Presentation - Food Preservation

• Meals can lose nutrition in a year
• Use MRE technology and Microwave sterilization in order to have a more efficient method in keeping food fresh

Zoe’s Presentation - Pollinating Plants in Space

• Problem - plants need pollination to grow in space
• Different fruits and veggies will give astronauts different nutrition
• You need animals or wind to pollinate

JJ’s Presentation - Protecting Astronauts in Space

• Radiation protection - hydrogen rich materials for spaceship building
• Micrometeoroid Protection - high strength kevlar that stop debris and micrometeoroids
• Solution - water or cheaper method

Sophia’s Presentation - Communicating in Space

• Current - softphone, works through laptops on ISS
• Problem - phone signals sent using ku band, specific frequency of satellite transmissions
• Sometimes the ISS is out of range or the ISS itself can block the signal
• Solution - Satellite can be made more powerful

Arthur Presentation - Different Power Types

• Batteries stores energy made on Earth and releases as electricity, limited power, heavy
• Solar power converts light into electricity, positioning, could be overheated
• RTG thermoelectric generators will generate heat as they turn into non-radioactive materials
• Fuel Cells - Limited time, heavy, dangerous
• Problem - Spacecraft don’t have enough energy

Ryan Presentation -

• Finding which planets can we use to survive
• Using mars
• Finding a flat shady and smooth surface as they are ideal for safety
• Areas near water or ice are also ideal
• Settling near the equator can also allow you to study methane
• There are a lot of problems and hazards on mars
• Nasa can put a magnet on a specific area of the planet and protect the planet from solar storms

M04 Crater Crossing

It looks that there are already discussions about M04. From the official interpretation, it may be allowed if we release something and let is go across the fence. See post #19 on page 2.

https://forums.usfirst.org/forum/general-discussions/first-programs/first-lego-league/the-challenge/rules-missions/84982-m04-crater-crossing

QUESTIONS ANSWERED

M01:
The first track connection is the first white area of the ramp

M04:
The entire robot must cross over

M12:
Above means the satellite can be hovering over the target area

Robot Mission Questions

Here are questions that are still unclear to me at this time.

M01: 

"For each roll, the cart must be Independent by the time it reaches the first track connection. As a Mission requirement in any Mission, the word “Independent” means “not in contact with any of your Equipment.” As long as the cart clearly rolls Independently past the First Track Connection, it’s OK if it doesn’t roll all the way east."

Q: Which one is the First Track Connection? This may affect how we release trucks.

M04:

"All weight-bearing features of the crossing equipment must cross completely between the towers."

Q: What is the crossing equipment? Is it the robot, or some attachment?

M12:

"Move any part of a Satellite on or above the area between the two lines of the Outer Orbit."

Q: What does "above" mean here? Which side is above?

Meeting Minutes 8/12/18

We did some core values activities!

• Sorted ourselves by our birthdays
• Sorted ourselves by favorite food

Next, we presented our project research.

Jeremy:

• Exercising in space
• They need

Nathan:

• Generating energy for rovers stuck in sandstorms
• Martian sandstorms block out sunlight
• Rovers cannot recharge and may eventually run out of battery
• The sandstorms can last up to many months
• Rover goes into low power mode
• Currently using plutonium batteries
• These batteries only produce 8 watts
• We can use wind turbines
• Can produce around 23 watts

Chungtai:

• Better ways to launch rockets
• Currently rockets are launched by burning oxygen, making an explosion
• They are slow and a bit hard to control
• Nuclear fuel could continue propelling rockets to faraway places
• Electromagnetic tethers could act like an extremely strong catapult
• Warp drives could teleport us to other places
• These ideas are currently not possible without a major technological advancement

Zoey:

• Planting in space
• On Earth plants need light, water, and nutrition
• In space it is the same
• Plants grow to light
• Roots grow to nutrition
• Plants being tested
• Red Romaine Lettuce
• Tomatoes
• Pepper
• Cabbage
• Need a better watering system
• Need a way to pollinate crops

Ben:

• Food packaging in space
• Canned food is heavy and takes a lot of space
• Dehydrated food requires a lot of water
• Meal packets lose nutrition after a year
• NASA is currently using meal packets a lot

Ryan:

• Living on a new planet
• Try to pick a more specific problem and solution

A compilation of questions for the FLL robot section:
- Is there a specific order that the Core Samples in Mission 5 'Extraction' are placed in?
- What is the thin black line (not outlined in white) for?
- Can you place the meteoroids in Mission 14 'Meteorite Deflection' into the Center or Side of the Meteorite Catcher?
- Of Mission 7 'Space Walk Emergency' Can Gerhard's Body or Ring be supported while being 'partially' within the boundaries of the airlock?

8/5/2018

Hey Guys,
The FLL Season is once again starting, this year's project topic is about space and we will spend the next week exploring new topics about this exotic unknown.

Topic ideas taken from both the FLL Challenge guide and from personal interest,

- Jeremy will explore the significant problem of exercising in space
- Kathryn will work on efficiently recycling waste while in space
- Zoey will contemplate the dilemma of how to grow edible plants while in space
- Chungtai and Arthur will tackle how to generate energy while in space using both reusable and non-reusable sources
- Chungtai will also work on how to perform maintenance on spacecraft
- Ryan decided on how humans can partake in recreational actions while away from our home planet
- My brother and I will work on the ability to inhabit structures on other planets, more specifically, Mars

Each person should bring a presentation of the topic they chose and be prepared to share with the team next meeting.

Yours in FLL,
Nathan Yuan

more videos and articles about this season project topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99i3T1Cw8z8


life support systems
https://www.nasa.gov/content/life-support-systems

The Challenge is out, please check the links below:

INTO Orbit Challenge

INTO Orbit Challenge Guide

INTO ORBIT Challenge Updates (8/1/2018)

INTO ORBIT Engineering Notebook

INTO ORBIT 2018-2019 teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=FmwcCQUdNw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=pdGgp1NIvL0

Core Value Questions 

Roles and Responsibilities
1. Tell us about the role each of you had on the team and how this worked?
2. How did you decide who did what?
3. Can someone else do you your job? What happens when someone is sick?
4. Do you have team leaders? If so, explain how that works.

Gracious Professionalism 
1. What does Gracious Professionalism mean to you?
2. Can you give an example of Gracious Professionalism that your team displayed this season?
3. Explain how Gracious Professionalism is like good sportsmanship.
4. How do you show Gracious Professionalism when you relate to your team? To your coach? To Others?

 Problem Solving, Team Dynamics and Communications 
1. Tell us about a problem your team had and how it was solved?
2. How did you solve disagreements?
3. What happens if a team member is not getting her job done?
4. Does your team have a set of rules? If so, what are they, and how are they enforced?

 FLL Core Values 
1. Tell us what you learned about FLL and how you think it will help you in the future?
2. How does your team share with others your excitement and interest in science and technology?
3. Doe any of your team members mentor others? If so, explain.
4. If you saw something happening to another team and thought it wasn’t fair, what would you do and why?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14r54AdKiJLAfOMPNDCG-57G4pzNSnezu?usp=sharing