Thursday
A brief history on Giant Zucchini's life as of last recorded date:
1. Actually PASSED Grade 8 mock exam. And passed it WELL. How in the world did THAT happen?
2. Won 1 match in Singapore Robotic Games Gladiator, defeated SHERMAN (ITE), but lost the rest of the matches in its group, including quarterfinalists Red October (SP). No easy feat considering we had run out of compressed air by the start of our 1st match due to leakage and our flipper was not working.
Continuing on the SRG Gladiator topic, that our robot was even able to move was quite something.
1. We were the only Secondary School in the event, all the rest were all Polys and Universities (except for the ITE team which we beat).
2. We started programming 2 hours before the event started.
3. We got our compressed air 2 1/4 hours before the event started.
4. We only managed to wire everything 1 1/2 hours before the start of the event; that's 1/2 an hour before caging.
5. We were probably the only team there that started from scratch...literally, sheets of aluminium. I mean we were probably the only team there that needed to saw the thing by hand.
6. We were probably the only team that experimented with pneumatics.
7. We were the only team there without the Gladiator set, meaning we had to resort to Tamiya motors.
8. We were probably the only team without an active mentor. The whole robot was an effort of the "students", term used rather loosely.
Some robots even went up our flipper :D...if only it was working...
Ah well, great effort, guys, it was great fun. Especially the train ride from Pasir Ris back to the NEL (Potong Pasir for Lim the Silent and Giant Zucchini, and Kovan for Snowstorm the Techinical Director), when the train got delayed and subsequently got swamped. It was all great fun. I enjoyed every minute of it. Well, almost...
Lord, You were there the whole time...it was Your Will that eventually prevailed, Lord...thank You SO MUCH...I'm Yours...use me to fulfill Your Will Lord...I am Your servant...
Soldier
Can't nobody stop me now
Cause i'm part of the army now
Praise the LORD is what i wanna shout
Even in a crowd i'm gonna sing it Loud
You can see what you want to see
But i know what He's done for me
Every day i can feel His power
'Cause the spirit of the Lord
He lifts me higher
All the word, can't stop, can't stop Him
All the word, can't stop, can't stop Him now
My God is the strongest tower
Turn to Him in the scary hour
Even when it gets harder now
All i wanna do is just praise Him louder
Keep singing 'til my voice run out
Keep running til He lifts me out
keep singing it cause i can't stop
Oh, i can't stop
You got the give yourself up
You got to lose your pride
You got to see it different
Open up your spiritual eyes
The devil wants you beaten
He wants you lying, cheating
But that won't last much longer
My Dad is bigger, stronger
Sound off, 1, 2 Sound off 3, 4
Bring it on down, 1, 2, 3, 4... 1, 2....3, 4
1. Actually PASSED Grade 8 mock exam. And passed it WELL. How in the world did THAT happen?
2. Won 1 match in Singapore Robotic Games Gladiator, defeated SHERMAN (ITE), but lost the rest of the matches in its group, including quarterfinalists Red October (SP). No easy feat considering we had run out of compressed air by the start of our 1st match due to leakage and our flipper was not working.
Continuing on the SRG Gladiator topic, that our robot was even able to move was quite something.
1. We were the only Secondary School in the event, all the rest were all Polys and Universities (except for the ITE team which we beat).
2. We started programming 2 hours before the event started.
3. We got our compressed air 2 1/4 hours before the event started.
4. We only managed to wire everything 1 1/2 hours before the start of the event; that's 1/2 an hour before caging.
5. We were probably the only team there that started from scratch...literally, sheets of aluminium. I mean we were probably the only team there that needed to saw the thing by hand.
6. We were probably the only team that experimented with pneumatics.
7. We were the only team there without the Gladiator set, meaning we had to resort to Tamiya motors.
8. We were probably the only team without an active mentor. The whole robot was an effort of the "students", term used rather loosely.
Some robots even went up our flipper :D...if only it was working...
Ah well, great effort, guys, it was great fun. Especially the train ride from Pasir Ris back to the NEL (Potong Pasir for Lim the Silent and Giant Zucchini, and Kovan for Snowstorm the Techinical Director), when the train got delayed and subsequently got swamped. It was all great fun. I enjoyed every minute of it. Well, almost...
Lord, You were there the whole time...it was Your Will that eventually prevailed, Lord...thank You SO MUCH...I'm Yours...use me to fulfill Your Will Lord...I am Your servant...
Soldier
Can't nobody stop me now
Cause i'm part of the army now
Praise the LORD is what i wanna shout
Even in a crowd i'm gonna sing it Loud
You can see what you want to see
But i know what He's done for me
Every day i can feel His power
'Cause the spirit of the Lord
He lifts me higher
All the word, can't stop, can't stop Him
All the word, can't stop, can't stop Him now
My God is the strongest tower
Turn to Him in the scary hour
Even when it gets harder now
All i wanna do is just praise Him louder
Keep singing 'til my voice run out
Keep running til He lifts me out
keep singing it cause i can't stop
Oh, i can't stop
You got the give yourself up
You got to lose your pride
You got to see it different
Open up your spiritual eyes
The devil wants you beaten
He wants you lying, cheating
But that won't last much longer
My Dad is bigger, stronger
Sound off, 1, 2 Sound off 3, 4
Bring it on down, 1, 2, 3, 4... 1, 2....3, 4
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