And so it begins...

Late September 2016 to December 2016
Our application has been accepted...
Now we have to plan this endeavor...
Getting a team of Community College Students from Albuquerque NM to Cambridge UK for a robotics competition is an exciting and daunting task.  Originally there were 18 students interested in the robotics competition.  Over time this number dwindled to the 4 remaining student team members and me, their faculty adviser.  We started out first throwing ideas up on the whiteboard, (This is common when I am involved...) about who could participate, how much it would cost to participate, how are we going to raise the money to participate, and so on and so forth. Paperwork was started, robots were played with, Raspberry Pi learning was happening, and plans were hatched as to how we were going to pull off this adventure.  As our winter break approached, we decided to send the interested team members home with one of our 5 Dexter Industries GoPiGo robots or one of the 2 PiBorg DiddyBorg robots we have in the HackerSpace Lab to work on their individual skills.  Oh, and this blog was planned, and... it is now March 22nd, 2017 and I am writing our first post in retrospect.  For what it is worth we have been chronicling quite a bit of progress on my twitter page.  @MyITInstructor  Check it out if you are impatient.  we will fill in the details here on the blog and tweet the blog post as we work diligently to complete this competition task!