FIRST Robotics 2020 - Moving In (?)

Just a few days after our tournament appearance we had to get the robot and team up and running again.  It was STEAM night at the high school, an event that happens every two years.  The robot was ready.  The team did their best - and it was quite good - but we had a number of members absent due to illness.

It was a very busy night.  We set up in the cafeteria and were showing video, shooting balls up at the target, chatting up prospective team members.  To be honest I was too busy to take many pictures.  We even challenged the Army bomb disposal robot to a race but they declined.  

More importantly we had a nice opportunity to show off to both prospective sponsors and to the school administration.  Regards the latter, the high school just finished a new addition dedicated to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.  Well by golly I think we got all those covered.  But so far we have not been formally offered a place in it.  Looks like they have room....

I proposed that we take our team flag and have the robot slam it down in the middle of the floor claiming it for The Robot Empire.  That was considered amusing by the team but perhaps a bit much.  So we just tried to make our case.

Regards potential sponsors we simply drove up to their tables and extended the robot's climbing mechanism to its full height.  Which deployed this sign:

If that did now sway them we backed the robot up a ways, took aim and launched this at them:

Time to relax, get everyone healthy.  We will have some sort of end of season social occasion in the weeks ahead.  And then...

Onward!