Kickoff was AWESOME! Special thanks to 1538, the Holy Cows, for hosting us all at their school.

Thanks also to Canyon Crest Academy's Aluminum Narwhals for joining us in our first day of strategy and game simulation. Only four hours in and we have already experienced numerous epiphanies about our strategy for the next six weeks (hanging is awesome).

Just a reminder that in the coming week, we will be working on prototyping all the variations of the applicable systems for the Breakaway Bot (while we learned a lot, we didn't quite get through our agenda on Saturday, so starting today we will be creating strategy diagrams for the possible combinations of systems and variations before we break into groups and start building our foamy mock-ups).

We are reinstating the "Homework Hour" after school on weekdays, so actual work will begin at 4:30. We do, however, encourage students to stay in the metal shop classroom while they work, because it is both more efficient and the number one study habit of all time is WORK IN A GROUP!!!! COLLABORATE!!!! HELP EACH OTHER!!!! It's both in the spirit of FIRST and I care about your grades, also, it gives Kevin and Willie some time to get set up, and retain their sanity.

To all I wish an invigorating build season!

Isaac