1. Did I manage to send this to everyone on the listserve? I'm not  

sure I am posting correctly.



2. My team has decided to pick a challenge that feels fairly  

complicated to me.  The United States is their chosen community and  

they are very concerned about fuel efficiency and the environment.   

They have been focused on some alternative fuel sources, car design  

and power sources.  They have found a lot of interesting research on  

what already exists, and in my opinion have brought up two ideas that  

I think are innovative- but there is no way to prove they are  

possible. Every now and then a team member will say "that won't work"  

and I've been reminding them that all things that have been invented,  

we would have never imagined we would have today and started with  

imagination. Can the innovative part of their research be primarily  

imagination based?



3. I am feeling a little nervous as our team seems to be having  

trouble deciding on the basic robot design- I have tried to steer them  

towards focusing on a certain mission and what does the robot need to  

look like to complete that. I feel like this particular challenge has  

more obstacles than others I've seen- just to get access to missions-  

seems like it's harder for a simple first time team robot to work in  

these situations.



Our team is having fun- I'm just feeling the time ticking away-and I'm  

thinking they are going to start to feel some frustration if we don't  

get closer to accomplishing a mission,

Laura Dysart, Richmond, VA



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