Robotics FinaleIzzy Bider As this year's Gatorbotics season is gradually coming to a close, Gatorbotics met on campus on Friday, 5/7 for an exciting movie night. The team ate Mediterranean food on the Circle while watching Mamma Mia, inspired by the team’s naming convention for this year’s robot. For reference, the Diagonavor on the robot is named “Feta,” the Flywheel is named “Falafel,” and the Intake is named “Shish Kabob” or “Bob” for short. Following these exciting events, the team played a fun game of karaoke together. Katherine, one of Gatorbotic's upcoming programming leads, reflects on how the movie night was the perfect wrap-up for the season. Entrepreneurship Update Izzy Bider The Entrepreneurship team continues to regularly update the Gatorbotics' website and social media. The sub-team has also been busy working on the Chairman’s Award in addition to capturing footage for our team video. The Chairman’s award essay focused on Gatorbotics’ foundation for success, how the team builds on previous accomplishments, their innovative responses to challenging situations, and community impact. Recently, a group of Gatorbotics students presented their proposal to a panel of judges. We are still waiting on the results. The team video that the Entrepreneurship team has been developing has two primary target audiences: Gatorbotics’ team members and sponsors. For the sponsors, the Entrepreneurship team has been interviewing team members, mentors, leads, and coaches on questions revolving around members’ growth and what members have learned through Gatorbotics. For the team video, the sub-team is focusing the interviews and the video as a whole on personal reflections and memories from this season. The videos will soon be sent out to the team and our sponsors, as well as posted to social media accounts. Team Member Feature: Janet Meng Izzy Bider with Janet Meng
Janet Meng is a current Sophomore in Gatorbotics. She initially joined both the build and programming team her freshman year but found a pension for programming. So, this year, she decided to pursue programming. Currently, she is the programming team’s vision specialist. While participating in this role, she has been able to take on more active roles in the programming sub-team, interact with the leads and specialist team, as well as the programming members. Next year, Janet is going to be a co-lead of the programming team with her fellow teammate, Katherine. Janet’s favorite part of robotics is the debugging stage. She reflects on how “The process of debugging is a very collaborative and rewarding one. One by one the errors will resolve and, at the end, when everything works, that moment is tremendously satisfying and very accomplishing.” In the future, the skills that Janet has gained and is still developing with Gatorbotics will allow her to tackle her future computer science-related endeavors head-on and with confidence. She has had “the opportunity to learn technical skills in terms of programming, and gain skills involving communication, time management, and commitment with Gatorbotics.” She will take the cumulation of these skills and lessons with her in her future endeavors.
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