SKULL- TEAM #65090 - Check back often for more information here ...

10/28/2025 - ONLY 11 more meetings (Meeting 11 of 21)

• Start putting the table together, get the challenges put into place on the table topper.

• Must have three robot built and everyone working on completing challenges

• Everyone working on task list items:

  • Placing Challenges on table topper

  • Fixing Challenges that are broken

  • Planning your robot scoring path(s)

  • Saving your code

  • Writing code

  • Testing and changing your code

  • Working on Research Project sheets

  • Working on team promotion table top

• Strike marks

• *** NO MEETING NEXT TUESDAY ***

10/28/2025 - Half Way there !!! (Meeting 10 of 21)

• Research Project - One Run Though - New Small Updates

  • Seven email requests for project feedback to people that we met during Archeology Day trip.

  • Everyone pick one research project from the following:

    • 1. Nazca Lines  *

    • 2. The Pyramids of Giza *

    • 3. Moai of Easter Island *

    • 4. Machu Picchu

    • 5. Terracotta Army

    • 6. Stonehenge *

    • 7. Pompeii

    • 8. Angkor Wat

    • 9. Petra

    • 10. Göbekli  Tepe

    • 11. Roman Colosseum *

    • * Have a scale models of these

• Missions Solves -  Suggested Solutions  (Not the same robot model as ours)

  • Work on Solving Robot Missions

  • How to build a basic DroidBot Attachment: DroidBotIVAttachment.pdf

  • Archaeological Institute of America

10/23/2025 - crunch time (Meeting 9 of 21)

• Research Presentation "LARGE ARTIFACTS SCALE" first run thru - Judges Ms. Sherrie, Ms. Smith, Mr. Terry 

• Setup the robot practice field

• Build those robots

• Complete those challenges

• Programming Notes:

  • • SKULL Program Name on Chromebook - Saving it, to recall and use later!

      • • 1. Pick your start location

          • • Left Side Start Area - use "L"

            • Right Side Start Area - use "R"

        • 2. Show the challenges performed - "01" or "02" ... "15"

        • 3. For example "L0102" program will...

          • • a. Start from the left side.

            • b. Does challenge number "01" and then does challenge number "02".

            • c. Then it will end on the right side of the board for teammate's pickup.

        • 4. For example "R1204" program will...

          • • a. Start from the right side.

            • b. Does challenge number "12" first and then does challenge number "04". 

            • c. Then it will end on the left side of the board for teammate's pickup.

        • 5. Each program run should do AT LEAST TWO challenges before going to the opposite side of the board.

        • 6. You can store an endless number of programs on you school Chromebook.

          • • Just use the naming convention outlined above.

            • You can add a letter like "a", "b", "c" ... to the end of the name to show multiple versions of the same program.

        • 7. We have three teams, make sure that two teams or NOT working on the same program.

  • THE TEAM SKULL ROBOT HUB programs:

    • • 1. You can store up to 20 programs on the FLL Spike Prime Robot Hub.

      • 2. These programs or numbered from "0 to 19".

      • 3. The TEAM SKULL ROBOT will use even numbers "0, 2 ... to 18" for Right Side Programs that start with "R".

      • 4. The TEAM SKULL ROBOT will use odd numbers  "1, 3 ... to 19" for Left Side Programs that start with "L".

      • 5. Draw a picture, to show the robot's starting position and location for each of the 20 programs.

      • 6. Also, list any attachments that are needed on the drawing (step 5) above.

      • 7. Punch and place these drawings in your team's binder for safe storage.

10/21/2025 - NeylaND scale (Meeting 8 of 21)

• Our research project introduction - Mr Terry (as a student)

• Mr. Terry to answer the judges questions - Students will be the Judges.

• JUDGING SESSION FLOWCHART

• Get to work on designing team a robot

• Get to work on completing one of the challenges

• Read the robot game rule book

  • Must start from the Pie Shape Corner (Someone verify this?)

  • You can pick up the robot inside the black space or Pie Shape Corner

10/21/2025 - sunday - archaelogy day (Meeting 7 of 21)

• Group went to Archaeology Day at the McClung Museum on the UT Campus 

  • We met at the school at 2pm and stayed at the site until 4pm

  • Got to learn about:

    • GPR - Ground Penetrating Radar

    • SEM - Scanning Electron Microscope

    • Skulls - We could see the child's skull baby teeth and the adult teeth waiting to come in.

    • Got to meet many Archaeologist on campus, we got names and email addresses.

10/16/2025 - trouble At skull (Meeting 6 of 21)

AGENDA

• Discipline Issues last meeting

  • • • Oh boy! It is screen time now

      • Why are we here?   Team Members and Mentors

        • We will go to the Tournament in December.

        • Team Rules

• Go to this site often, review, watch linked videos ( fll.terrytech.biz )

  • • • Teams that we will compete against on December 13, 2025

        • Note: Teams that qualified to State last year (*)

        • 1 336 Atomic Eagles *

        • 2 3131 Radio Active Brix *

        • 3 5358 Webb Robotics - FLL - Green

        • 4 22000 Ranger Robotics

        • 5 28883 Northwest Robotics

        • 6 43352 Ready Rangers

        • 7 51985 Webb Robotics - FLL - White *

        • 8 52998 Gadget Girls *

        • 9 59099 Webb Robotics - FLL - Black

        • 10 60651 Secret Innovation *

        • 11 65090 SKULL

        • 12 66223 Bro Bots *

        • 13 71393 RECA Eagles 1

        • 14 71394 RECA Pythons 3

        • 15 71395 RECA Robots 2

        • 16 71423 Maverick Robotics

        • 17 74124 Young Archeologists

        • 18 74345 Brick Bros

TEAM SCORING

SKULL 2024 Robot Design 3.0 of 4.0 Robot Game 105/140/115/130 Innovation Project 2.625 of 4.0 Core Values 4 of 6

SKULL 2025 Robot Design 0.0 of 4.0 Robot Game 020/000/000/000 Innovation Project 0.000 of 4.0 Core Values 1 of 6

AT THE TOURNAMENT

AT THE TOURNAMENT

• • Can You Dig it? 2025 - Archaeology Day - McClung Museum Sunday Oct 19th

  • Practice Time - Being quiet

  • Get Busy - We have a lot to do and little time to do it.

10/14/2025 - Fall break over, start digging (Meeting 5 of 21)

AGENDA

• • Three teams - RED, BLUE and GREEN

  • Team Binders

  • Can You Dig it? 2025 - Archaeology Day - McClung Museum Sunday Oct 19th

    • Everyone meet at the School at 1:45pm

    • We will carpool from the school. Leaving promptly at 2pm - SHARP (Maybe 1-3 cars)

    • We will return to the school: 4:00pm - 4:15pm

    • We must have some project ideas to ask them about on this day (SUNDAY)

    • Ask them...

      • 1. "Are you an Archaeologist?" 

      • 2. "What pieces of equipment do you use to do your job?"

      • 3. "Fill in the blank... If I had      blank      it would make my job so much easier."

      • 4. SKULL TEAM - Come up with questions to ask...

  • Nazca Lines - 4th Graders

  • Easter Island - Moai Statues (33:55)  (In class - Just watch a few minutes)

10/02/2025 - Only 4th grade, DIG with a spade (Meeting 4 of 21)

AGENDA

• Fifth graders off on a trip, only four graders today.

• Core Values

• Robot Design

• Innovation Project - Archaeology

  • Nazca Lines

  • Google Map - Peru, South America

• Watch some videos

• More Programming

9/30/2025 - Lets get down and dirty (Meeting 3 of 21)

AGENDA

• Team SKULL CREW - Behavior Matters

  • Ask yourself, is what I'm doing helping them team win in December?

  • If NO, don't do it.

• Team Roles - Engineering Notebooks

  • Team Captain, Creative Designer, Researcher, Communicator, Project Manager, Material Manager, Builder, Mission Strategist, Coder

• Team Building - All Aboard!

• Core Values

  • Fearsome Invaders Intimidate Inept Treasure Diggers

  • Fun, Inclusion, Impact, Innovation, Teamwork, Discovery

• Robot Design

  • Inventors Design Crazy Incredible Contraptions

  • Identify, Design, Create, Iterate, Communicate

• Innovation Project

  • Archaeology - The study of people who lived long ago.

  • Identify a problem faced by Archaeologist today and propose a solution that can help.

  • Archaeological Process

    • Identify the Site, Survey and Map, Excavate, Reconstruct and Restore, Share & Publish

  • Project Sparks

    • Page 6 in Engineering Notebook

    • Project Ideas: 

• Program the robots - Katie DeVinney to help with robot programming instructions

• Pirate pictures - Team Pictures - Need hats, eye patch  (Do this Later)

• Engineering Notebooks

  • Ten Questions

  • Snacks

9/25/2025 - DIG in (Meeting 2 of 21)

AGENDA

• Kid Robot Control - (mask and cones)

• Project Sparks - Five Questions

• Build those challenge sets

• Ten Questions

• Snacks

• Watch some video:

  • Welcome - 5:20

  • UNEARTHED - 1:20

  • Field Setup - 8:21

  • Game Missions - 7:35

  • Innovation Project - 9:29

  • All 15 missions solved (one team's example) - 3:39

  • FLL Tournament - 4:13

• Season Resources Page - Not Video

9/23/2025 - Meeting number 1 of 21 - Welcome

Meeting Recap:

We completed our first team meeting it went well.  Introductions were made, good overview of FIRST LEGO LEAGUE and started building our challenge sets for our practice table.

Attending: Terry, Shay, Katie, Mark, Bentley, Kaesyn, Braylon, Timothy, Titus, Cove, Kameron, Andy, Sherrie

8/5/2025 - Lego Supplies Arrived Today

We just got our field and challenge kits!  What fun awaits our team!  Our first challenge is building all these kits for us to practice on.

7/24/2025 - OUR team's First Grant money gets approved

BAE P&S paid for Team Registration - $275.00

Coach Terry paid for FIRST LEGO League Challenge Set - $135.48