KnightKrawler MinneTrials Season

MinneTrials Kickoff - First Meeting

• 6-9pm regular meeting
• Students are broken into 2 groups by mentors and captains
• KnightKrawler builds 2 robots for Minnetirals, Red Team - Blue Team
• 1 hour student game manual review
• Design Session - 20 minutes
  • Students- what makes a good robot (different archetypes ideas)
  • Captains and Mentors - define archetypes to give students 3-4 robots
  • Some mentors begin marking out field with masking tape
• Strategy Session - 20 minutes
  • Students - how to build the best alliances using the give archetypes
  • Captains and Mentors - Finish marking out the field with tape, find game piece analogs
• Human robot simulation 45 minutes - students in rolling desk chairs simulating archetype robots to play the game at full scale
• What we learned discussion and end of meeting announcements

Following meetings

• 1 week of design and brainstorming on mechanisms
• 2 weeks of design/prototyping 1-2 options per mechanism class
• 2 weeks of final prototype build/testing
• 2 weeks of final mechanism build and programmer testing
• 1 week of testing/tweaking and practice
• competition

Note: Multiple holidays and MEA are part of MinneTrials season

TODO Items prior to MinneTrials Kickoff

• Reserve multi-purpose room or library for kickoff event
• Acquire enough masking tape
• Find/acquire game items to simulate game pieces
• Collect rolling chairs from classrooms
• Create score card in Google Sheets for robot simulation