Last year me and a group of friends decided to enter into a Robotics Competition called FLL. In total we were allowed to have ten people maximum but we couldn't get enough people so had to make do with just 6. We did put it off until the last few weeks, and in the end we realised that our robot was inconsistent, and we hadn't even started making a presentation for the theme - Trash. So in the last 2 weeks we made an entirely new robot and made our presentation. We did quite well on the day itself as we came 3rd in the Robot Challenge and won the award for best presentation and idea! We were really proud as were up against only schools, and were 1 of the 2 teams that were doing it for the first time, out of 14 total teams. Something we really struggled doing was getting everyone together, as weren't doing this as a school and we all had different extra-curricular activities and hobbies, even though we were all from the same school, apart from one. A really great thing is that even though we didn't have a single practice as a whole team, and 2 of the team members had never even met before the day of the real thing, I think we all got along well together and we had a really good team chemistry. Out of 6 of us, only 2 of us had ever used Lego Mindstorms before and done the programming with it, so we really had to play to everyone's strengths, especially in the short time that we were left with. Our team name was RY8 consisting of me - Aadi, Rayaan, Shashank, Aporv, Leo and Ayush and we will definitely be doing this again this year.
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