WSU 2005 LEGO MINDSTORMS Challenge Trial Day
February 12, 2005, 10am - 4pm
Engineering Building & Wallace Hall, WSU Campus
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February 12, 2005 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
How to Improve Your Mindstorms Challenge Oral Presentation
Presented by: Don Malzahn, Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wichita State
Don has judged previous LEGO MINDSTORMS oral presentation will present some ideas on how to maximize the effectiveness of the 4-6 minute oral presentation and 5 minute question and answer period. This presentation is open to all registered teams.

On Trial Day the mission boards will be set up so that teams may practice with their robots.  The courses will be in two separate buildings; Engineering Building and Wallace Hall. Several extra rooms are reserved to allow teams to meet and practice. Representatives of the College of Engineering will be available to answer mission questions.  No laptops will be available for checkout or use.  If teams want to be able to program on that day they will need to furnish their own computer, software, and IR tower. Remember to bring extension cords and power strips for your computers and batteries for your RCX and IR tower. 

You may bring food and drink to the Engineering Building on trial day.  Please use your best judgment and behavior while eating and drinking around all equipment and mission boards.  We request that each team clean up after themselves.

WSU Mindstorm T-shirts Sales:
If you would like to purchase a WSU Mindstorms T-shirt they will be on sale during Trial Day.  Trial Day will be the last day that coaches may make a bulk T-shirt order for their team in order to get them printed for Challenge Day.

LEGO Name Badges:
Trial Day will be the last day that any LEGO Name Badges can be requested and engraved before the Challenge.  Please put all requests in writing to mindstorms@wichita.edu.