The first incident that i would like to record is the NRC competition which was held at 29-7-2010 ( Thursday). For the best performance at the competition day, all 3 teams were gathered at Hooi Min's house to do final preparation for it at Wednesday. We practiced and tested from 8pm night to 2am midnight non-stop!
On that particular day, I woke up at 6am and gathered at school gate. We departed for the competition venue, SMK Buhaimuddin, Taiping. We were given some briefing by the organizer before the competition started. We were given 1 and half hour to assemble and test the robot before round one of the competition. We finished assembling our robot within 10minutes and our team was the first team who finished building the robot. After that we brought the robot to be tested. It was successful. The robot managed to climb the pole and get the ping pong ball smoothly. We were really happy as we could finish all the works within 15minutes. For the rest of time, we watched movie and played computer games by using laptop in a relaxing manner, while the other teams were still busy assembling their robot. Even the prefects on duty were curious.
One and a half hour past. Here comes the first round competition. When it was our turn, we brought our robot to the map confidently. Seng Kong activated the robot right after the judge said "start". At first, the robot managed to climb the pole smoothly. But, to our surprise, the robot failed to get the ping pong ball as expected! We were shocked and wondered why as it was a success during testing. We only scored 35 marks for this round as we only managed to climb the pole but failed to get the ball.
After round one competition, each team were given 30 minutes to modify their robot before round two started. We decided to modify the program of the robot to overcome this problem. Soon, 30 minutes past. It's time for the second round. For this round, the robot managed to get the ping pong ball. We were relieved. For this round we scored 60 marks as we managed to climb and get the ping pong ball. The best score will be counted.
After lunch, it's time for prize giving ceremony. The best 10 team will be announced, starting from 10th. We thought our team will not be in the list as there were many teams which were much better than us. But, suddenly, our team was announced as 7th(out of 34teams)!! we leaped with joy as the result was out of expectation!
In overall, I was satisfied with our result as it was my first time to participate in this competition. It was a wonderful and memorable experience. We became closer after this competition as we had the chance to get to know more about our teammates during this competition. I think I am not going to participate in Robotic Competition for next year.Its finally over and we managed to get a good result for it.
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