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	Diary Entries Robot Challenge John's Visit Under the Sea Botball Goodyear Brothers at the Dunes

Robot Challenge!
The Mobile robot programming class had a final challenge where they had to program the robots to learn a maze and then navigate through the maze to a series of goals. After the competition we let the student release some frustration on an amigobot pinata. We had a great time!
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John Richard Visits Doha
Emir Cup Semifinal match Inside the Emir's Arabian Horse Stable (yes the stables are air conditioned) John works on our robotic Segways John sprained his ankle Big lizard near Fuwairit An old fort in northern Qatar	John enjoys the game Watching camels at the camel race track Then he tests a standard human Segway When driving we must always watch out for Gas Gas Vehicles Historic ghost village Inside the fort
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Under the Sea
We watched this cuttle fish for about 30 minutes. During that time it caught about three fish with two extremely long tenticles. It could also change colors. Sometimes it would look like a rock or sand. When threatened it turned blue on the edges. Check out the blue highlights	John swims above a tropical fish
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Botball
Exciting Botball action	John and I pose with the team that won the tournament
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Goodyear
	The first english thing we saw in Qatar was this sign. This store is parallel to the airport runway, and we saw it as we were about to land in this country. This really has been a "good year."
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Brothers at the Dunes
No trip to the dunes is complete without a belly full of good cooking from Rick's Kountry Kitchen. The serve great omletes and authentic buscuits and sausage gravy. John goes Xtreme on the dunes Catching a very small amount of air	John at the top of a huge dune. Above Sealine beach resort
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