Team - Marcelline Inc

Building the robot

What I’ve learned:
-I learned how to balance my school work and the extracurricular of robotics.

What I liked:
-Robotics already interested me, but it helped me orient myself even more towards engineering and chose to practice it as a profession for the future.

Challenges:
- I would say that the biggest challenge I had to overcome was being meticulous, to cut the stems (T-slotted) properly and be careful that they’re the right size.

Léa Tannoury

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned how to manipulate certain tools, such as a saw and a sharpener.

What I liked:
- I liked being able to work with friends. We have all undoubtedly been able to create a strong bond that gave me more will and motivation to work.

Challenges:
- I’d say that one of the toughest challenges, as one of the conductors, is to conduct the robot, especially with all the pressure on our shoulders. The slope does not really help.

Maya Sultanem

What I’ve learned:
- The importance of communication in between team members during the work
- Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, we have to learn to accept them and use them to advantage our team.
- We always discover new things while working.

What I liked:
- The team spirit we developed.

Challenges:
- Accepting that sacrifices are essential (especially the time)
- Organizing myself

Vanessa Siev

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned to use new materials, like T-slotted.

What I liked:
- I liked to see that the robot was working efficiently after many weeks of hard work, all our efforts have been rewarded.

Challenges:
- Precision is very important because an error, no matter how small it may be, could cause very big problems for us.

Alina Tran

What I’ve learned:
- Even if it seems frustrating, you have to run different tests on the robot, you have to assemble and dismantle the pieces to make sure that the robot will work on the day of the competition.

What I liked:
- Working with my teammates on the robot, I liked sharing my ideas with them. It’s a very nice ambiance.

Challenges:
- Thinking about the construction of a robot isn’t something that comes naturally to me, so I had to put a lot of effort.

Ioanna Korbis

What I’ve learned:
-How to install motors on t-slot bars, I also learned to be more precise.

What I liked:
- Realizing my ideas and constructing a robot, it really is a great experience!

Challenges:
- My biggest challenge was to organize my time and to plan ahead of time all the materials that would be needed.

Angela Nauleau Javeaudin

Programming the robot

What I’ve learned:
- Being in programing taught me a lot in the past year. We had to learn how to program a robot in an autonomous manner and in such way that it would be controlled with the use of a controller.

What I liked:
- Personally, I really like programming the robot and finding solutions to the problems that we encounter.

Challenges:
- Finding a way to avoid the motor from turning when it has been stopped.

Rooshnie Velautham

What I’ve learned:
- It is essential to keep communicating in between the girls in charge of the construction of the robot because we work in parallel with them.

What I liked:
- I liked being able to control the robot, such as deciding if it has to step back, move forward, throw objects and even the speed at which it has to execute all of these tasks.

Challenges:
- I would say that my biggest challenge is to program a robot that is functional on different levels because it is all pretty new and difficult for me.

Yasmin Haghighat

Building the kiosk

What I’ve learned:
- Finding quick solutions to the problems we encounter
- Being meticulous, constructing a kiosk requires paying attention to details

What I liked:
- I really enjoy the ambiance of the team
- Being apart of a team that shares the same interests as me (in the construction of the kiosk)

Challenges:
- Organising reunions in between the members of our team

Alessia Proulx

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned that the first idea that comes to mind isn’t necessarily the one that will work out for you. For example, we had an idea for the little doors and the scream tanks, but after running a few tests, we realized it was unrealistic.

What I liked:
- I liked transforming my prototypes and my ideas to reality and being able to work with new people.

Challenges:
One of the biggest challenges for us was to finish our kiosk in the restricted amount of time we had.

Angelica Serano

Challenges:
- I couldn’t participate in other extracurriculars, because this one required all my time, effort and energy.

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned that you always have to start working ahead of time, because unexpected incidents may occur.

What I liked:
- I really liked that all the members of the team helped each other in order to create such a marvelous project.

Meghan Kanou

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned to plan the work in advance, for example, estimating the exact number of doors we had to print out.

What I liked:
- I liked seeing the final result, to see that all the effort we put into the kiosk gave us a fructifying outcome.

Challenges:
- Being constructive is hard at times when you need to be realistic, because some ideas don’t work.

Gabriela Ghawerghi

What I’ve learned:
- In order to succeed, we must work as hard as possible and always try to do our best.
- In order to help the group, we must always express our ideas and opinions.

What I liked:
- The team atmosphere
-The competitiveness.

Challenges:
- To separate the tasks in between my teammates.
- To manage my time in order to have balance my studies and the work that needs to be done in robotics.

Sabah Abu Assi

What I’ve learned:
- How to work in a team
- How to organise our work
- How to separate the tasks so our work is efficient

What I liked:
- The process of execution (running tests)
- The communication in between the team members

Challenges:
- Certain communication problems
- Some little unexpected incidents or details that we’ve forgotten about

Sarah Abdelshahid

Creating the Website

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned how to program a website
- As the director of the team, knowing how to manage the team properly isn’t obvious, but it’s a skill that I’ve learned to develop.

What I liked:
- The big charge of work helped me push my limits.

Challenges:
- You cannot quit when things do not work out, you have to try several times and make mistakes before succeeding.

Minh-Chau Le

Team Leader- Web Design

What I’ve learned:
- Creating a website requires a lot of research that needs to be done on the Internet in order to find solutions for the problems we encounter.

What I liked:
- Using and familiarizing myself with new logistics and learning how to do some coding.

Challenges:
- Because I hadn’t even done coding before, it was a big challenge to overcome, but thanks to the Internet and certain classes to which I have taken, I was able to develop my data processing capacities.

Elizabeth Luk

Web Design

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned to use the information that was given to me by other team members to apply them in my work as a journalist.

What I liked:
- Being a journalist helped me express myself in a more clear manner, especially in the explanation of the game and the robot.

Challenges:
- Learning how to manage my time to hand in my work for the set deadlines.

Ava Rezvani-Taban

Journalism

What I’ve learned:
- Being in this team is a very gratifying experience, I was able to improve my writing, especially when it came down to explicative texts.

What I liked:
- Because there aren’t any journal clubs in our school, I enjoyed having the chance to expand my hobby in a school setting.

Challenges:
- Respecting the deadlines was a pretty big challenge for me because it required a lot of organization and I have tendencies to procrastinate.

Christina Isgro

Journalisme

Making of the Video

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned to make animations with a new logistic that I had never used before.

What I liked:
- Expanding my creative side in order to find original ideas to make a unique video.

Challenges:
- The biggest challenge for me was to find the time to realize all my ideas.

Sabina Popa

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned to establish deadlines and to plan in advance our ideas for the videos because we cannot improvise.

What I liked:
- What I enjoyed the most was the shooting. I love wandering around the school with the tripod on my shoulder and filming scenes.

Challenges:
- Our biggest challenge in video was the animation. After Effects is a very difficult program to control and we must run several tests before achieving a short animation.

Clara Jacqoudet

3D Drawings and Animations

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned how to film and to familiarize myself with the different types of equipment.

What I liked:
- I liked working with new people (mostly 11th grader students) and implicating myself in new teams, whether it’s the video team, the website or even the construction of the robot.

Challenges:
- Drawing very complex objects with a logistic is hard to master.

María Carla Hermida Borroto

What I’ve learned:
- How to animate and draw a robot, this required a lot of thoroughness.

What I liked:
- I liked working with this team because there is a very pleasurable ambiance.

Challenges:
- My biggest challenge for me was to animate in 3D, but after watching a couple of videos on youtube, my skills improved significantly.

Song-Ly Tran

What I’ve learned:
- I’ve learned to create 3D drawings and to animate.

What I liked:
- To see all the progress we have made and realizing that we were able to complete our tasks and the goals we set for ourselves.

Challenges:
- Replicating the exact characteristics of the characters of Monsters Inc because it required a lot of precision and we had to pay attention to the little details.

Hannah Nguyen

What I’ve learned:
- My knowledge of 3D models and animations is significantly more enriched.

What I liked:
- I loved the ambiance of the team, the girls made the past Saturdays very pleasant.

Challenges:
- Accomplishing all the tasks in a very limited time.
- Finding original ideas to match the theme.

Nishtha Chadha

What I’ve learned:
- As a creator of 3D drawings, I was able to develop furthermore my sense of creativity while living a unique experience as a student.

What I liked:
- I really liked drawing in 3D, it was really a new experience and I’ve discovered a true asset!

Challenges:
- I’d have to overcome certain obstacles such as mastering the different functions of a computer program and especially managing my time.

Lily Alacchi

What I’ve learned:
- How to animate and draw while using new logistics.

What I liked:
- The ambiance of the team and that we all helped each other, it made the experience even more pleasant.

Challenges:
- Because all of this was new to me, I had a little bit of difficulty learning how to animate.