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This is a review of what we did on a week by week basis. == Week One - 9 June == We met and started with the reading materials [[Media:VEX for the Technically Challenged.pdf]]. We did the first chapter, the introduction. At the start of the second hour we used the [http://www.vexrobotics.com/docs/Vex-Quickstart-Guide-10072008.pdf Vex Quickstart Guide] to build the tumbler bot. Most teams had two people on them, so the initial assembly went pretty fast. Our mentors tonight were Charlie, Kelly, Sue, Scott, Jon, Matt, Shaik, Siri, Steve and Foster. == Week Two - 23 June == Due to vacations we were down to one builder for each robot. So we took most of the session to get them all up and running. The controller guide [http://www.vexrobotics.com/docs/inventors-guide/main-2008/12-d-control-configurations-06272008.pdf VEX 2008 Inventor's Guide Reference - Appendix D, Control Configurations (2.6M pdf, 06-27-08)] has the correct documentation. There were some minor problems, the robots were wired (and the control set up to do arcade). It took some time to break out the documentation and figure out the connection details to get them to do tank drive. But at this point we have 6 working Tumbler Bots. Next week we will race them to see who the better driver is, and to also change the wheels to show the difference in wheel sizes. We added two new mentors, Gail and Ken. == Week Three - 30 June ==
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