Spring Cleaning

Hi my name is Erik Svetin and I am blogging about the March 5th practice.

Today, we continued practicing our jobs, but today, myself and Noah cleaned the competition mat because it was NOT CLEAN! There may still be stains on the mat. After shooting down our board we hung it up to dry. Then, we got together and went over our lines for our project presentation. We were very RUSTY! We then practiced with our acting; still, very RUSTY! After going over our presentation, we brought the competition mat back in and put all of the pieces on the board. The mat looked brand new and could not have been cleaner!
We then finished with a couple of missions.  We were worried that the newly cleaned mat may affect our light sensor readings for one of our missions, but we didnt have time to run that one. We will find out next week.



Erik

Coming together and splitting up to get the job done!

My name is Caele Manley, and I am on the Molokai Middle School Golden Eyes Robotics Team. As many of you already know, we as a team qualified for the national competition that will take place in California in the middle of May. This means that we only have a little over two months to prepare for this event. We are only meeting one hour a week so the time that we have is very valuable. This past week we discussed the decision of letting Sarah J. continue in the role of being our student mentor. We all agreed that she should be a part of preparing us to be ready for the upcoming competition. After we concluded this decision we split up in to three teams to focus on our different responsibilities.  Lily J., Sarah J., and myself were responsible to create a new song for our core values presentation. The other groups worked hard to fulfill their own responsibilities, too. This week was a good week for thinking things through and making decisions to lead us to California.

Check back next week for a new blog!

Here we go again

Hi, Molokai GoldenEye blog readers. On our second practice of robotics we had to write a half page of why robotics is important to me?
                    This piece is written by Lily. Robotics is important to me because through out the years that I’ve been here, I’ve learned so many things that I probably wouldn’t know like gracious professionalism, cooperation, but most of all learning to be a team. At the same time it made me who I am today, if you knew me before I started robotics I was shy and I would never thought I would be in the same position I am today. Robotics has opened me to fields never even knew were here. It also gives me a chance to share my ideas with others.
                          The next piece is written by Caele. Robotics is important to me because it helps me learn a lot and it teaches me how to work with other people and it is very fun. It is also important because I get to go to new places and have a great time and I am proud to represent the state of Hawaii.
                    This one is written by Katy. Robotics is important to because it helps me in school when I had science fair I could present my board to my friends and sound and act professional. Its also is important because I got to research things that I did not know about seniors. It is important because I get to learn more about my team mates and got learn to work better in a team with boys and girls.
                     Also this piece is written by Noah It is important to me because it is fun and get to learn new things that could help other people. Robotics is also important to me because it is what I like to do. And because we get to see new places and meet new people.
                            This paragraph is written by Eric. Robotics is important to me because it helps me prepare for the future, I have to understand and present a project. It also helps me in teamwork because we are a team, F.Y.I one of our core values. If we don’t work together we won’t win and we wouldn’t be going to Nationals. The core values are a bunch of values that teams must follow to compete. Also, if I don’t do robotics, my mom would make me play an instrument, not the ukulele or guitar. She’ll probably make me play the piano or something for three hours.
                           Last but not least Kaitlin, also know as me. Robotics is important to me because I get to participate in something that I am really good at. I enjoy spending time with my team and coaches. Also in the future I know I will be able to work with anybody boy or girl. Also I have been doing very good in school since I been in Robotics.
                 Those were the half page pieces we did on February 12, 2013 at Molokai GoldenEyes robotics practice. There will be different articles each week. We’ll keep you posted.

Its out of order, but we dont want to leave it out!

My name is Caele Manley, and I am on the GoldenEyes Middle School Robotics Team. Over our fall break we had three practices which took place on Tuesday, October 2, Thursday, October 4, and Friday, October 5. On Tuesday we went to Na puuwai Health Center to spend time with the senior citizens in an effort to get to know them. We each had to pick a senior citizen as a partner and hang out with them throughout the duration of our practice. On Thursday we started our day in Mr. Gonzales’ classroom setting up the First Lego League Robotics Challenge table and assembling the pieces for the competition. Later that day we returned to the Na puuwai Health Center to spend some more quality time with the senior citizens. We completed our day by once again returning to Mr. G’s classroom to complete the construction and gathering of all that was needed for the FLL Challenge table. For our team Friday morning came very early as we met at 5:30 am in Mr.G’s classroom! We set out on a mission to go and find senior citizens who were up and drinking their coffee. We had been told that The Drive-in and Mrs. K’s were the elderly peoples’ hangouts, but evidently our sources were not very reliable. Though we drove all through Kaunakakai town, we only found 5 people that were 65 or older. We did share our project with them, and they were very encouraging. The said that they thought our eye ware which is designed to help senior citizens with facial recognition is a great idea!

We have been so busy we forgot to blog!

On October 9th we all came together to rehearse and make changes to the script. Then we all had about 15 minutes to work on the robot . And while that person was doing the robot the rest of us we worked on the script. When we all had a turn at the robot we all came together and all worked on the script for the rest of the time. I had fun seeing the script come together, I think it is funny and gets a lot of our research out to the audience. Thanks for looking at our blog! -Katy

Our team and new challenge!

Hi my name is Kaitlin. I am part of a First Lego League (FLL) Robotics team called the Molokai Middle School GoldenEyes. Our team is made up of a variety of ages, grades and schools. There are 6th, 7th, and 8th on our team. There is Lily, Katy, Noah, Eric, Caele and me Kaitlin. Our coaches names are Mr. Gonzales and Aunty Jenn. The theme this year for FLL is to create a device that will help senior citizens to be independent, connected, and engaged. We are judged on a variety or components including- The FLL Core Values, Robot and Project. We have to create an innovative solution that solves a common problem facing senior citizens and present it, as well as build and program a robot to complete specific missions as well as present and justify it to a panel of judges. They will be checking to see how we built our robot and why we choose to program it the way we did. It is a lot of work, but for many of us this is our 2nd or 3rd year so we are looking forward to the challenge. Thank you for visiting our blog! ~Kaitlyn

Interviews!!

My name is Caele Manley, and I am on the GoldenEyes Middle School Robotics team. On Tuesday, September 18, we had the privilege of interviewing two different people who deal with senior citizens on a daily basis. The first person is a public health nurse, and her name is Lulu. She told us that the biggest problem for senior citizens on Molokai is that there are not enough services for them. The second lady that we interviewed was named Rachelle, and she works for the Maui County Office of Aging. She told us that she services over 150 people and 30 of them suffer from dementia. When we told her about our project, she said "a device that would help senior citizens with facial recognition would be just wonderful!" Thanks for visiting our blog.