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Today, my mission is to get published.  I will first try national geographic kids.

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Last week was the "fine bombing night" or as others say, senior project night.  This is where the seniors got together to show off their hard work.  We demonstrated the VEX robotics system.  On the first trial, we only missed the ball through the hoop.  We towed the vessel, planted the buoy, and sank the other vessel all with in three minutes and eightteen seconds; however the other group missed every challenge.  I think that it was an overall success.  There were a few juniors there that had a chance to test our VEX kit because that is what they will be doing next year. 
Note to the future: Black is a great display color.

Pictures

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Last week, we did tests conserning only the foam.  We found that one sheet could hold five pounds, the weight of our entire robot.  We decdide to use four sheets.

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Yesterday, we cut two sheets of the foam so that the metal framework can sit into the foam.  then we cut another, smaller hole int the remaining two sheets so that the propulsion mechanism can fit through ant be submerged underwater.  We then conducted tests.  We observed that the forward port side was sinking, so we then screwed on more sheets foam to that side. this corrected the problem.

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Tuesday, my partner and I were forced to stay after school in order to get our bearings.  Here we re-designed our entire propulsion system.  We made great progress in the construction.  In school, we cut our foam we ordered off-line in to four equal slices.  We then bolted them together.

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On Monday, I contacted the four e-mail addresses at the end of the article.  I received six different responses from different people.  Two merely sent us the link to the VEX robotics website, while the others provided with great information.  One was even great enough to provide the packet given to the participants of the AIM challenge.  This was the most valuable piece of information we have ever received.  We are now on the right track.