Attachments....

The items needed to complete mission 1, in their prototype stages.
After unit testing, each one needs to be integrated with the base

Items remaining to get mission 1 complete

The team divided into subteams to tackle them

Experimentation...

John conducts experiments to detemine whether the lance or the bucket will do a better job of catching the rat

Better computers! Thanks. Mr. Painter!

Claw prototype

An early trailer pickup prototype featues a spring loaded trigger to grab the trailer

Lance design complete

... not too excited :(

Test buggys

A test buggy ( actually 2 ) allows the lance team and the trailer pickup team to test, without needing to use the base, which is in use by the base team for programming