SKILLS
For the Skills Challenges, Team 7407 competed using our 2020 robot, BB2. We competed from our Macquire Gymnasium practice field using the field elements we had built back during the original INFINITE RECHARGE season.
Germanium Group
- 4th in group
- Total score: 404.08
- Autonav: 48.7s
- Hyperdrive: 59.7s
- Powerport: 76 points
ROBOT
BB2 v2.0 updated design included revisions to:
- Hanger: dual telescoping arms with “skywalker”
- Shooter: continuously variable hood angle
- Intake: more compact retraction
Excellence in Engineering Award
Germanium Group
GAME DESIGN CHALLENGE
The Game Design Challenge was an opportunity for teams to design a FIRST Robotics Competition game and compete against other teams for a chance to pitch their game to the FIRST Robotics Competition Game Design Team.
Team 7407 designed a came titled “Mineral Mayhem”, a game where teams work to uncover and research new minerals discovered deep in the Earth! Teams must work fast to collect as many minerals as possible before the cave collapses. Each three-team alliance could score points in four different ways: dropping “minerals” (game pieces) off into the “workshop”, delivering minerals to the “lab”, setting the Combination Station (similar to Infinite Recharge‘s color wheel), and autonomously running their “mini-miners”, or miniature autonomous robotics that operate within a small grotto locate behind the combination station. During the last thirty seconds of the game, miners traverse the escape bar to escape the collapsing cave. The alliance with the highest points at the end of the match brings fame and glory to their lab with the discovery of new minerals!
As a team, we developed robotic restrictions, rule violations, tasks and point totals, and ranking point allocations to make our game make sense as a FIRST Robotics Competition game. A team of Game Design Challenge team members (Kenadi, Valerie, Peter, Anna, and Mia) presented the game and the design process to a group of judges, and “MIneral Mayhem” ended up winning the Rubidium Group Engineering Design Award.
