Destination imagination

Destination imagination is a tournament that goes on yearly to challenge students to make a item to salve a problem that is provided. They spit it up in to different types of problems my team had to solve a technical challenge. The first step was to create the script and story to find out what the item has to solve. Our challenge was to solve a maze using technical methods. So we though about how a story could revolve around a maze. We came up with a few story’s with one based on another planet with a rover going though the new terrain on the new planet, I personally preferred this story but my teacher wanted use to do something more creative so we made a story around a bomb treat. The rover was used to navigate the building with the bombs and remove the bombs.

After getting our story we had to build the props and the technical method that would solve the maze. We where thinking about using RC car but it was too simple and wouldn’t be something that would be very interesting so we dissuaded on coding our own car. Me being the electronically knowledged person in our group i was the one to build this. After learning from peruse years of DI I dissuaded on doing this on my own maybe getting help on parts of the build but we it was time to build the rover I had so problems getting sick and being busy with other homework. So i just built it because I had a clear idea of a design to build and outside input would slow it down. I realize now that i should have gave some of the work to people in my group that would have a similar understanding of what need to be done, but at the time a had the mind set of just wanting to finish it. On the way to the end product i had some troubles with building. Having some wires having weak connections from dry sounders. The gears where also hard to get to in line. After get those to thing to work we where ready to preform but in typical DI fashion the faulty sundering completely stop work as we where performing.

Now we have to fix this for provincials.