Off to the First Competition!

Week 9

This week, we helped the team make finishing touches and pack all of the necessary equipment for the competition.

The car isn't the only thing that the team takes to the competition. They also pack extra parts in the case of an emergency, and pack parts from the old cars to demonstrate their tweaks in design from previous years.

What surprised me the most was that the team also packed broken parts that malfunctioned during the testing process. These parts are taken to describe the engineering and testing process to the judges and to explain considerations that the team had to make while building and modifying the car.