DC Best Mall Day 25 Oct, 2004
Over the weekend, I went to DC Best’s Mall Day event. DC Best is a program for high school students to build a robot using a predetermined list of parts, in six weeks or less. I participated several years ago, and now my younger brother is too.
Although six weeks are allowed, from start to finish, in reality it's the last two weeks of crunch time when actual work gets done. Mall Day is held one week before the competition itself, in order to let the teams try out their (partially completed, of course) robot on the real playing field.
We also noticed a couple of hoodlums from TAMS there, who seem very confident that their robot is completely going to work. So much so, in fact, that they juggled instead of figuring out a strategy.
