I was told to post this in the general discussion for help, so I did.
So we have 2 periods to work on our robot. Sometime during the day someone is ruining our robot. All of the work we did yesterday was taken completely off and disappeared. One of the other teams we know is copying us but we don’t think too much of it since the time we’re in there I’m always by the robot. Yesterday I was absent so I wasn’t in there at all. My team is in band for the extra period. I’m worried if we wait too long to find out who it is, they might completely destroy it. The last of a certain gear we built the robot around so it functions, was taken off and filed down. Can you please tell us what to do? I’m dumbfounded and super worried. We have worked countless hours on it and I would cry if it was ruined. Please give us some advice. I would’ve left this on a different discussion but there wasn’t one on it.
Talk to your teacher immediately. The robot should be put away in a secure place and only brought out when you are working on it. So sorry you’ve experienced this!
Since your teacher isn’t there today, you might find another teacher or administrator you can talk to and ask if they can put your robot in a safe place when you aren’t working on it today. Then when your teacher is back tomorrow they can figure out what to do long term.
So we have 2 periods to work on our robot. Sometime during the day someone is ruining our robot. All of the work we did yesterday was taken completely off and disappeared. One of the other teams we know is copying us but we don’t think too much of it since the time we’re in there I’m always by the robot. Yesterday I was absent so I wasn’t in there at all. My team is in band for the extra period. I’m worried if we wait too long to find out who it is, they might completely destroy it. The last of a certain gear we built the robot around so it functions, was taken off and filed down. Can you please tell us what to do? I’m dumbfounded and super worried. We have worked countless hours on it and I would cry if it was ruined. Vex staff, please give us some advice. I would’ve left this on a different discussion but there wasn’t one on it.
Also, this is where a great engineering notebook can come in handy. While this is terrible, a multitude of other bad things can happen with your robot. For example, when I drive to tournaments, the robot is in the trunk of my car. I have thought many times that it would be terrible if I got rear ended and the robot was crushed. However, with a good engineering notebook, you should be able to recreate your robot. Documentation is king. That being said, whoever is destroying your robot needs to stop.
You could take pictures of the progress that you have made on the robot for multiple days. And when you come back take pictures of the destroyed robot. So you can show proof to the teachers or mentors that this is happening every time.