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12/13/2025 - Marble city qualifier - 2025

• The Judges Award is presented to a team that the judges feel deserves special recognition for outstanding effort, spirit, accomplishment and remarkable improvement.  

• This award is a discretionary award given to a team that strongly represents the FIRST Core Values, even if they don’t win a technical or performance-based award. 

Innovation Project - Average Score 2.6 of 4.0

• IDENTIFY - 2.5 of 4.0

• DESIGN - 2.0 of 4.0

• CREATE - 3.0 of 3.0

• ITERATE - 3.0 of 4.0

• COMMUNICATE - 2.5 of 4.0

Robot Design - Average Score 2.3 of 4.0

• IDENTIFY - 2.5 of 4.0

• DESIGN - 2.0 of 4.0

• CREATE - 2.5 of 3.0

• ITERATE - 2.0 of 4.0

• COMMUNICATE - 2.5 of 4.0

Robot Game - Best score 130

Practice Round - 50

• Equipment Inspection - 20

• Mission 01 - Surface Brushing - 10

• Mission 02 - Map Reveal - 10

• Mission 04 - Careful Recovery - 10

• Precision Tokens - 0

Round 1 - 95

• Equipment Inspection - 20

• Mission 01 - Surface Brushing - 10

• Mission 04 - Careful Recovery - 10

• Mission 10 - Tip the Scales - 20

• Precision Tokens - 4 = 35

Round 2 - 130

• Equipment Inspection - 20

• Mission 01 - Surface Brushing - 20

• Mission 04 - Careful Recovery - 10

• Mission 10 - Tip the Scales - 20

• Mission 12 - Salvage Operation - 10

• Precision Tokens - 5 = 50

Round 3 - 115

• Equipment Inspection - 20

• Mission 01 - Surface Brushing - 20

• Mission 02 - Map Reveal - 10

• Mission 04 - Careful Recovery - 10

• Mission 10 - Tip the Scales - 20

• Precision Tokens - 4 = 35

12/12/2025 - “Special friday pracTice”

• Only had one hour - We got done what we could.

• Attending - Titus, Samuel, Joseph, Kaesyn, Bentley

12/11/2025 - “Adventure ho! Crew, let’s roll out!”    (Meeting 21 of 21)

• Last regularly schedule meeting is today.

• Shirt may not arrive until the last minute - Wear a dark tee-shirt, if you have one, to the event on Saturday.

• We may have to bring the shirts to the event and put them on there.

• I'll hand out Hats and Eye Patches at the end of practice - TODAY! 

• Run through our Innovation Project presentation one more time.

• Titus - Do want to practice your Robot Design presentation today?

• Get table setup and challenges in place.

• Work on robot runs - **** GET THOSE POINTS ****

12/09/2025 - “The wind favors us, lads! The sea herself calls for battle!”   (Meeting 20 of 21)

12/04/2025 - “At marble city, they'll have no pity !!!”  (Meeting 19 of 21)

• Only three more practices to go...

• If we are not ready to go, those other teams are going to crush us!

  • Remember - Compete - BUT BE NICE TO THE OTHER TEAMS!

  • Gracious Professionalism - The FLL Way.

• Get busy!!! 

• Help, any way that you can. 

• Get your team some points!  

• Everyone work together.

• Braylon - You are not on the official roster - Your mom needs to respond to the emails from FIRST ROBOTICS!

• Extra Practice on Friday Dec 12, 2025 for ...

  • Titus, Sam, Joseph, Walker (Shay - Kaesyn & Bentley - Optional) (Katie - Hopefully she can make it)

• Meet at the front of the school at 6:30am on Sat, Dec 13

  • Timothy, Braylon, Jack, Raymond  (and everyone else)

• Reminder - At the competition, only four team members allowed at the table.

  • Two Team members at each corner (I'll switch out teammates)

  • If the Robot gets stuck, lets talk about this.

    • 1. The corner for the next run should grab it.

    • 2. The corner that sent it out should grab it.

• We'll run though our Research Presentation again today.

12/02/2025 - “Four more and out the door !!!”  (Meeting 18 of 21)

• Project Presentation - I'll find some others to be judges.

• Team Roster - Braylon and Walker (not signed up yet)

  • You parents need to respond to the email from FIRST Robotics

• Titus - Start working on the Robot Design Presentation

• T-Shirts - We can use the same pattern as last year, if you want.

  • Sponsor Names - On the back of the shirts

    • BAE P&S  (BAE Systems Platforms & Services) FLL Team Registration Fee

    • Arconic Foundation - (Formally Alcoa Aluminum)

    • South Knoxville Elementary School - Various Items

    • Terry Technologies - Books and Challenge Set + Plus other Items

    • tsin.org (TN STEM Innovation Network) - Chromebooks, Cabinet and Trip money for State Finals - T-Shirts

    • TNVR (TN Valley Robotics) - Team Event Fee for Marble City Qualifier Event at Hardin Valley Academy

• Set up the table

• Work on Challenges - Get Points for the Team!

  • We have to define our runs and get them programmed into one robot

    • ADD THE PIRATE FLAG AND CAPTAIN JACK

    • We want everyone to recognize our robot at the tournament

  • We can duplicate this in the other two robots also.

11/25/2025 - “Move yer boots, we’ve only a heartbeat before doom!”  (Meeting 17 of 21)

• Easter Island Head vs Joey Aguilar

11/20/2025 - shiver me timbers - only 6 practices (Meeting 16 of 21)

• Welcome Jack to the team.

  • Terry will spend some time with Jack to get him up to speed.

• Review the crew pictures.

• We have got to see progress today on robot runs - getting points - solving challenges.

• If we have a conflict, we'll call a "PARLAY" to resolve the issue.  That's what Pirates would do!

• Get busy... doing something that will get us points (see the list on 11/13 below...)

11/18/2025 - Don't Let your team down (Meeting 15 of 21)

• Update Pirate Pictures

• Run through Research Project again

  • • SITE SHEETS and Artifact Overlay Assignments

    • Joey Aguilar Poster - Olmec Head

• T-Shirt Idea ???  (Or we can pick something else)

https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/14074045-funny-pirate

11/13/2025 - Got to get busy - count those points (Meeting 14 of 21)

• Things to be working on...

  • • Pirate Crew Pictures

    • Setup the practice table and challenges

    • Fix or replace broken challenges (Terry purchased another challenges set)

    • Building another robot (For a total of three practice bots) (another new robot kits)

    • Working on Coding the robots

    • Iterating code to make improvements - try and try again!

    • Build attachments - attachments for each challenge (if needed)

      • • We also need two more attachment BASEs

    • Plan our RUNS - tournament paths for getting point

      • • Let's shoot for 4 or more RUNs from one side of the table to the other.

    • Work on the team PIT presentation table (Titus has got this started)

    • Practice our research project presentation when we have an audience.

• If in doubt ... DO SOMETHNG THAT WILL MAKE OUR TEAM SOME POINTS IN THE TOURNAMENT

• Do not goof off, be working on something to help your team for the tournament

11/11/2025 - Coding Day (Meeting 13 of 21)

• Must Watch Video - Length 2:30 - Gets Max Point of 545 !!!

  • Simple Robot - MANY ATTACHMENTS

• PARLAY - formal negotiation or discussion

  • What is a Pirate "PARLAY".

  • How our team will resolve disputes

  • CALL A PARLAY

11/06/2025 - Captain Jack Day (Meeting 12 of 21)

• We got a response from a real archeologist.  Dr Ervan Garrison - Professor - University of Ga

• Show me a complete robot cycle - First Team gets Jack and a Flag for your robot

  • Cycle - Start, finish 1-3 challenges, go to the other side of the table home

• Find something to do...

  • Set the practice table and challenges

  • Work on building the third robot

  • Coding for challenges

  • Work on team PIT table presentation

10/30/2025 - 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