READ OUR PORTFOLIO FOR THIS YEAR! It contains all that we have done over the year and is a good summary of our year. It’s available here. This year, our challenge for my robotics class in school, was a game called Freight Frenzy, sponsored by Amazon (because of course it was). The game was a lot more organization, delivery, and automation-centered. The game centered around taking cargo to certain places, in the fastest, most efficient way possible.

This may surprise you, (with me being an 8th grader who can barely tie his shoes), but I use Linux as my daily driver. I love Linux, the openness, open-source utilities, libraries taking 10 seconds to install instead of manually moving DLLs. God, it’s so nice to have literally everything in my computer available with a couple key presses. Wanna install an entire new desktop environment? $ sudo dnf install @kde-desktop-environment Wanna make a cow say the first lines of The Bee Movie script?

Last year, I had my first FTC competition. If you don’t know what FTC is, FTC is a robotics program for middle and high schools. My school offers a robotics elective from grades 7 - 12th, so I thought “Oh that’ll be cool instead of keyboarding class, and I’ve done First Lego League I’ll do it.” That probably changed my life, but that’s a story for another day. The challenge That years challenge was Ultimate Goal, in which the goal, (no pun intended,) was to shoot rings into a tower.