Day 5: The day of the presentation

Preparation for Departure

The day started as usual with breakfast in the downstairs cafeteria. However, this time we had to make sure to take our bags with us since checkout was at 10 a.m. We didn't want to carry our bags 30 minutes to PXL and back, so we arranged to leave them at the youth hostel and pick them back up at the end of our day.

Finishing Up

Once we were at PXL, we had one last workshop in the morning. Both the technical and ideation tracks had to be finalized. For the technical track, this mostly involved making some final tweaks to attempt to make our robots follow the race tracks as well as possible. For the ideation track, most groups did a few rehearsals to decide who would present what.

The morning session concluded with the distribution of attendance certificates for our BusITweeks. Interestingly, there was a spelling mistake on the certificate. Instead of "robotics," it says "robitics".

Our Final Presentation & Departure

After the morning workshop, we had our final lunch in the PXL cafeteria. Following that, it was time for our final presentation. The presentations went relatively smoothly. The most enjoyable part was the demonstrations of the autonomous robots and the algorithms other groups came up with. It was evident that driving autonomously was challenging, and following the race track didn’t always go as planned.

Once the presentations were over, we had a little chat with the other students before heading back to our hostel. From there, we all went our separate ways back home.

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