Organizing pieces of Lego

EV3 is new to us. We have lots to learn !!!!

Missions are growing

 Work

Building missions

The 25th of June we received all the materials!!! It is better than Santa Claus !!

Hands on !!

Working hard on something you like, is not work... it's fun

First trials. It is going to be very hard!!!

Changes at the workshop

The first mission still to be solved

Our first crazy ideas!!

We still do not have received all the materials, so we decided to start working on the floor with a big piece of paper as a Play Mat.

There is no time to lose. Any time, any place to work, is good

There is no time for long celebrations. The real hard work stars now!!

 On the 16th of June, after a little break, MoonBots organization announced the 25 finalist teams for phase 2. DALTON BRobots celebrated it with a
 "Dalton Cake"!!! 

Congratulations to all the other teams!!!

DALTON BRobots team with the Mayor of Pamplona, Mr. Enrique Maya, and Mr. Ricard Huguet, director of FLL Spain.

It was an amazing experience!!

Being volunteers in the FLL European Championship is fun but tiring

DALTON BRobots team went to Pamplona to the European First Lego League Championship volunteering to all the teams. We met lots of teams from 42 different countries and we explained them about MoonBots !!!!! 

They show lots of interest and they were very excited about our 

STEM Project showed in Phase 1 and MoonBots !!!!!!

We also had the chance to met Incredibots, another team from MoonBots. They win the second position in FLL competition. Congratulations!!!!

 Dalton BRobots Moonbots 2014 video

Dear members of the DaltonBRobots team, my name is Daniel Selva, and I am Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Your sheriff Carlos e-mailed sent me the link to your website and video, and asked me for an "expert" opinion. After reading your blog and watching the video, I can only start by saying that these are the kind of experiences that inspire us teachers and aerospace researchers to keep on working.

Not only is your video scientifically enticing and accurate, with references to advanced concepts such as the Gauss Cannon or the Yarkovsky Effect, it is also educational for the general public, and truly fun to watch. I certainly wish the video were longer to be able to see in more detail some of your accomplishments. In any case, the design of the ring-shaped painter spacecraft definitely is a provocative new idea that proposes a new kind of maneuver in space, different from landing and docking, which for lack of a better name I will call "passing through". It is simply amazing to see what a group of kids can put together when their raw talent and motivation are masterfully steered by the right mentors. One can only imagine what they will be able to do in a few years! This is exactly the kind of people we need to make our plans to build a settlement on the Moon come true, be it for protecting us from NEO, for obtaining valuable resources, or simply for learning valuable skills that we will need to colonize other planetary bodies of the solar system, such as Mars. I sincerely hope you will consider a career in aerospace science or engineering, perhaps in our aerospace department at Cornell University, where I would be honored to work with you. In the meanwhile, I can but offer you my humble help - within my possibilities - in whatever endeavor you choose to take in the future. Keep up the good work! Best regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Daniel Selva Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Cornell University 212 Upson Hall Ithaca, NY 14850

Although it is hard work, we don't realise it because it is fascinating and charming!!

Watching the first video essay

Time to put all the work together

 

Playing guitar to record Pink Panther

Filming

Video editing

It is time to start filming our video.  

Planning working time.

 

Organizing the video script.

 

Calculating the quantity of paint necessary to paint the asteroid

 We need a "yummy" break.

Now it is time to work at all times.

The rocket is ready to go.

Nearly there!!

 

Eureka!

Studying new ideas.

The visit was fantastic, but we had to go 

to the whiteboard again to rebuilt our project.