[Lydean] One of our major sponsors, J. F. Taylor, Inc., hosts a picnic for their employees every year. For the second year in a row, we have demonstrated at that picnic. We build playbots for the attendees to drive and modify the game to make driving the playbots challenging. This year we placed four homezones and four bowling balls on the field and asked the four playbot drivers to drive down a ramp, up the ramp diagonal from their playbots, and knock the bowling ball from the divot on that ramp.

Renee, David, Erik, and I operated the booth. Renee is now a mentor, and Erik was representing the Robobees, FRC 836. It was a comfortable temperature that day, but the pirate clothes made it warmer. Renee likes them too much to demonstrate without them. We always try to display our colors with a tablecloth. Jack is sitting on a new box that Grandpa made for the team. We painted it before World and that allowed us to transport the robot more securely.

Mostly children were driving the robots, but even the adults tried their skills. We brought Jack to show how this past season's game was played. His lift was as tall as the garage, which is short by World Tournament standards, but was still impressive to the picnickers.