Introducing - "Smitty" - Finally!

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Hello -- I'm Smitty.  The Techno Knight Robot.
My name is a play on the name of the school I represent, Smith Middle School.

I was created from a box of strange looking metal parts that made no sense when I first arrived for my team of 11 Smith Knights.  It took my young knights and older mentors over 18 hours to build me from the ground up with some hiccups along the way.  One being that they tightened a screw so tight that it took lots of tools just to get me loose.  Took over 2 hrs just to pull me apart so my kids could try changing my chassis which was too wide and too long when we tried to fit me in a competition -sized box. That was painful.  Then they built an arm that kept getting stuck and I had to have surgery with some of my nice long arm cut off and gears changed.  I've gone through lots of changes over the past 8 weeks.  We've only got 3 more weeks till I need to show off my talents at our local qaulifier. 

Recently, my team decdied to treat me to some new Stealth Wheels -- I hear they are very "grippy" as I've been having trouble getting over into the crater to collect my minerals.  Now we don't have the right size and length screws to attach them to my motors but we're figuring that out this week and I'll have more have more to share soon.   See you later.  

















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