We had a joint FLL practice at the GEARS center last Sunday a ran matches against Chuck's Northern Middle School team. It was fun competing against another team for once.

Afterwards, both teams got to run Meshach (our FRC robot) for a while to burn off some steam.

Our Space Elevator presentation is also going well. The team presented it to the parents and educators that showed

The loft area's ralings were pretty basic, so I just finshed beefing them up, and walling in the bump-out. Now we have a cool Sky-Box that can be a "Member Only" space when running competitions.

The Sky-Box will also be a fun spot to control the robots from.

The next project will be adding benches to the loft area so we can setup a Lab (for building electronics and writing software.

We had a fun day at Swan Meadows School this Sat. Matt Abrams, the StarClimber team leader, came and did a presentation on Space Elevators in general, and then talked about his recent entry in the X-Cup Space Elevator Games.

I worked with the two "southern" FIRST LEGO League teams tonight. Things are shaping up pretty well. So far here are the missions that are fully functional:

I was at the new GEARS building today. There was an area in the main meeting room where the tiles had curled up (no idea why).