Week 4 Day 2: Filing

Today

Filing is the process of smoothing rough edges. 

Today, we had a good amount of people to show up, so with the surplus of people and a limited amount of work to do due to our well-planned schedule, we had people filing the edges of our metal hinges and other sharped edged pieces, which is a necessity.

We had our moments these past few days. Having lots of people brings comfort to the team, assuring them that there are always members who are willing to devote their time and help. However, some got too comfortable. As the sporadic breaks start turning into habits, we noticed a plethora of members giving in to video games and movies. These gave some of our hard working members an edge against those who spent their time having fun. On the other hand, the relaxed slacked on their quota of work. This experience alone caused two edges in our schedule.

Of course, there were those who were natural leaders. Having stepped up to their comfort zone, they gave inspiration to the others. Motivation and an unplugged TV brought both the reclined and relentless new motive to work hard and together, we all came to a consensus on our new work habits. At the end of the day, with lots of work finished, we dulled out the edges and made everything come around.

Earlier weeks

A test of good spirit and wills is always important in a team.

As we've neglected the process of updating our blog the last couple weeks, we'll give a minor recap here:

• Having checked our Inventory, we came together to come to agreement on our idea.
• With our ideas, we split into two teams in our building process. One to work more on the base and wiring, the other for our prototype of the upper robot.
• More materials have come in, as our mentors works relentlessly to assist us in every way possible.
• We built a prototype out of spare wood and pipes from previous years competition.
• Having messaged to our members, we gathered to test the prototype.
• The bitter winds left many of us sick, but even then, we continued to test and improve the prototype to reach the ideal goal.
• The cold and rain slowed us down, but it could never lower our spirits as we finally reached our goals of how the prototype should work.

This was our schedule. We always hold our heads high and continue to work, even in the hardest conditions. Of course, we care about the safety of our members, as there were plenty of heaters and jackets to go around. But the hard work of our members never stops growing, because that's the nature of a true Spartan.