Genesee Robotics Area Youth Team    Leviathons Team 1322

                                   Member of the Mid-Michigan Robotics Alliance           Fenton, Michigan

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01-29-2012: End of third week all the ball rollers are installed. All is going together as planed.

01-22-2012: End of second week we have the frame built, started on the rollers and drives.

01-14-2012: First Week in the 2012 build season is going well. With discussion from the group we have agreed on a design. We will Pick up from the floor, Shoot for the top hoop, be able to go over the center hump and balance the bridge. We also hope to score in autonomous.

12-20-2011: The White Wolves Scored High at the State Championship. They were just a few points from winner of robot performance and won in "Robot Design".

11-19-2011: The White Wolves did it again , made it to the State Championship. They won two awards, one was finalist in robot performance and the other was "WINNER" Core Values (team work).

10-29-2011: Our Lego team The White Wolves did a great job at Lego Fever I. They won the award for mechanical design and had two call backs. The score was in the top five.

09-19-2011: What a GRAYT weekend, We did well at the Kettering Kick off competition. We scored many tubes with out any problems which allowed us to rank 15th out of forty. If we could have solved our mini bot delivery earlier we could have ranked even higher. Our drivers did a first class job and our human player was spot on with the throws. Good Job Alex and Rosie and welcome to the team Jake. The up coming season is going to be our best yet.

08-28-2011: The MMRA workshop went well. All ten Flint FLL teams showed up along with two other teams. Video (a) & (b) of the mechanical sessions can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qThMr-4CrAE&feature=uploademail and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roVpZiFRLpM&feature=uploademail  Video (a) & (b) of the sensor sessions can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIWf77OLbxI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IavywAh1Tgw

08-21-2011: Back to the Bricks was fun. We displayed our robot to thousands and looked at many old cars.

08-14-2011: Taste of Fenton was a GRAYT time. Plenty of food and many local residents enjoyed seeing our robot.

08-06-2011: The Sloan demonstration went well, we displayed our robot to many.

03-17-2011: We were on Good Morning America this morning on Three words.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/words-dreams-true-13389628

 2011 State Competition at Eastern Michigan University did not turn out the way we expected. Although the robot worked good we felt that it was not raising the tube fast enough to the top row so we change from a pneumatic lift to an electric lift. After working on it for two day's we finally got it working correct but it was too late. We could not over come the losses and we finished last at the event. We did however win the Coopertition award thanks to team 3536. We worked together and built two robots that were almost identical to each other and than we traded them for the entire event. It was GRAYT fun anyways. The team worked together very well though the tough rebuild and we are very proud of them.

2011 Pictures from Ann Arbor District

2011 Pictures from Kettering District

3/15/2011: I have been working on a Idea for a new mini robot.  This Idea looks good but is a failure. It smokes the motor when I try it.

3/8/2011: The Kettering District was a GRAYT time,  our robot preformed very good. We were making LOGO'S on the second level with out any problem. Thanks to our friends  the Hartland Electro Eagles we were selected to compete in the finals.

2/23/2011: Ship day has past the robot is ready. It was a close one, 11:58 was the time when it was zipped close. We have a good autonomous that works.

2/12/2011: End of week five and the robot is complete except for the shell and logos.

2/11/2011: Week five is moving along.

2/8/2011: The Robot is looking GRAYT. Week four is moving along very quick. We had our claw plates cut using water jet. We thank Tram Tools very much for their help with it.

2/2/2011: Robot with Wheels

1/29/2011: End of week three and the robot build is going GRAYT. The lift is done, gear boxes are done, mini robot goal guides are done, mini robot delivery is 90 percent done (tweaking needed), mec wheels just need some bolts and they will be done. We should have it ready to test at the end of week 4.

1/11/11: FRC Game release is a throw back to the 2007 game which will make it easy for veteran teams who have played it before. We had learned allot about what not to do and believe that we will be able to build a highly competitive robot this year. Mondays review meeting showed that we have very talented students who gave very plausible ideas for our new robot. Most all have agreed with the idea of  a claw to grab the rings and a vertical lift of some type to move the rings up to positions.

12/29/2010: FRC team has received money from FIRST in Michigan and will be purchasing a trailer to carry the robot and tool boxes. We have also completed building the new robot cart for competition.

12/29/2010: The White Wolves finished 6th out of 48 teams at the state competition. They won first place in team work. We are very proud of our students for working so hard. Thank you to the FRC students for helping with the Lego team

11/20/2010: The White Wolves did GRAYT at Lego Fever II, they won a trophy and scored well over all and are going to state.

11/06/2010: The White Wolves did well at Lego Fever I

11/04/2010: The White Wolves FLL team is doing well with the Project, Teamwork, Engineering and Programming the robot. Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KRM_svKOk4

09-18-2010: What a GRAYT day at the Kettering Kick off fall event. Robot worked well and the drivers did a great job. Would have done better but had too many penalties. We were selected to got to the finals and did a good job scoring but was unable to go farther. Good fun.

09-13-2010: The team had some fun with the Israeli team today, we met them at Spicer's Apple Orchard and let them try some cider and donuts. We took them through the three corn maze and even took them on a buggy ride.

08-21-2010: Back to the Bricks was GRAYT fun. Joe rode on the time machine of the Goodrich Martians

08-07-2010: We held a penny hockey tournament at BC Comix to fund raise. We made some money and had some fun. Thank you BC Comix.

06-26-2010: Our team joined other MMRA teams at the Sloan Car Show with our  robots to demonstrate there abilities.

06-06-2010: What great fun at the Autism Walkathon. Kids loved our Lego's.

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