Does anyone have pictures that their parents took during the barbecue? Mr. Koenig suggested attaching them to the next parent newsletter, which I would like to send out fairly soon
Thanks
Saints Robotics
Team 1899
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BBQ Pics
Important PR/FR meeting Friday 6/19 (after school)
We will be making dates and preparations for our first sponsor pitch to Albertsons. This is the kick-off of sorts to our summer sponsor presentations, so it is important that anyone who is interested in doing FR over the Summer attend.
BBQ Coming up (important news)!
Hi everybody!
So as you already know, the BBQ will be happening this Saturday starting at 6:00 PM in crossroads park. The address is:
Crossroads Park
16000 NE 10th St
Bellevue, WA 98008 US
It will last about three hours and we will be doing fun things like handing out medals, talking to parents and having a lot of fun. However, this is also a potluck (for the ones who don’t know already) and we need students and parents to bring food items, otherwise it will be pretty lame. Since we are expecting a lot of people we will also need a lot of food.
The most important thing that we need are entrees and desert. Nobody has signed up for those yet, so we are asking if you or your family could bring something like a: salad, pasta salad, cold pasta, chicken or anything that you know people would enjoy at a BBQ. If everybody brings a little something, then it will be awesome. We also need desert, so bring cookies, cake, fruit salad, brownies etc… Soda is also in high demand so if you don’t want to bring anything like desert or an entree, bring some drinks (cans or bottles).
Thanks for making this an awesome event, and don’t forget to bring something!!!
We’ll see you at the event on Saturday!
Parent BBQ-Important Update!
So for those of you who don’t know, our big BBQ is scheduled for June 13th, exactly one week from now. In preparation, we have been sending your parents E-vites for the event, which is useful in getting out information as well as giving parents a chance to sign up for their “potluck” item. This is why it is very important that if your parent has not received one to contact me ASAP! My e-mail is mandymay_0@hotmail.com.
Thanks!
PR/FR Meeting Monday 5/18!
@2:45
We will be working on creating sponsor materials, specifically the presentation ppt 
Work call 5/16-Walk for Aidan
Today, we were asked by the Interlake ASB and Sammamish Robotics team if we would bring our robot to their Walk For Aidan event on Saturday the 16th for a ‘robot race’.
We will thus be needing volunteers from our team to help at the event. Jobs could include robot monitoring/maintenance or running items, on top of what Sammamish wants us to do.
The event will run that day from 10-2, so we will want volunteers showing up around nine. I understand that it would be a lot to ask of you guys to stay the entire time, so perhaps we can break it into shifts:
Shift 1: 9-11 (setup)
Shift 2: 11-1 (event work, important for anyone managing the robot to be here, obviously)
Shift 3: 1-3 (break down and clean up, money counting)
This event can help us build alliances with a number of neighboring schools, spread the word about our team, and even earn brownie points towards a chairman’s award. Therefore it is important that as many of us as possible be there to support our team. So everyone try to at least show up for one of these shifts!
One caveat: volunteers do have to pay $10 admission to the event (wearing an Aidan shirt gets you in for 5). However, all proceeds are going to charity, and you get a shirt out of it. Plus, you are doing so to support everyone’s favorite robotics team!
Please tell me if you can make it!
New Offer
I received a note from the office containing an email with this inside during 5th period today:
“Hi, my name is Maia Sebek and I’m 15 years old and homeschooled. I read in the Seattle Times about your amazing accomplishment and how you built the omnibot and were selected to go to an international robotics compeition.”
*”Im writing to you because I’m working on a project to send the Woodland Park Zoo elephants to an elephant sactuary, and one of the goals of this project is to build a very basic prototype of an elephant robot.”
*”If it’s big enough, it could be in the Fremont Solstic Parade and/or Greenwood Seafair Parade. If it’s smaller, we have lots of ways to use it, such as showing the Woodland Park Zoo how it could teach people about elephants using robotics, instead of keeping elephants. Would you be interested in working on something like this? It would be a pretty basic elephant robot; maybe it could flap its ears or move its trunk, and we will be starting it very soon”
*”If you are intersted or would like more information, please call me at **********, which is my home phone number. Thank you very much!”
It sounds like a very exciting project that we should pursue. We need our PR people to contact Maia and Woodland park zoo. Any thoughts on what course of action would be greatly appreciated.
An Important message from FIRST!
Greetings Teams:
Do you have valuable FIRST experiences to share? Do you want a FIRST keychain? SharingFIRST is a social networking site especially for girls where FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge, and FIRST LEGO League members can all share technical and non-technical experience with peers as well as with newer and/or younger teams. To help us complete the grant supporting SharingFIRST, we invite you to add information to the site. In late April, we will be contacting you to help us evaluate the site.
Things you might upload on the site include: lessons on torque, an explanation of gears, instructions on how to build a robust robot, advice for recruiting and retaining new team members, how to use a particular tool, applying to colleges, career information, etc. We want YOU to upload documents, presentations, and anything else that may be of interest to members of the FIRST community.
Because a major goal of the grant is to provide FIRST girls and women with a place to share their experiences, we ask that you share this message with the girls and women on your team. The site is open to everyone, but we ask you to actively encourage the girls and women on your team to participate.
You can check out the site at www.sharingfirst.org. To upload materials, you will need to request a username and password. Please send the following info to ksullivan@usfirst.org:
your name
your preferred username
your chosen password
tell us if you’re a student or a coach/mentor
tell us what program you’re involved with (FRC, FTC, or FLL).
The first 50 girls and women to upload materials will receive a limited edition SharingFIRST keychain. Just be sure to let us know as soon as you have uploaded your materials (contact ksullivan@usfirst.org).
Go Teams!
– FIRST Robotics Competition Phone 1-800-871-8326 ext. 0Fax 603-666-3907frcteams@usfirst.orgwww.usfirst.org
Vex Worlds
“Interlake High School ninth graders Dennis Liao (foreground) and Eric Sun (directly behind him) and 12th grader Edward Jiang (behind Eric) watch as their robot, The Omnibot, goes through its moves, lifting blocks and dropping them at different goals spots. The three Bellevue students are part of the only team from the state selected to go to an international robotics competition Wednesday in Dallas. The team of about 34 studetns built tabletop-size robots designed to pick up blocks. All five of the team’s robots qualified for the international competition, which will feature 280 robots from 12 countries”
The Vex team has appeared in the Monday issue of the Seattle Times! If you have a copy, please save it - the picture is on the back of the “NW News” section.
Tomorrow, the Vex team will leave for the Vex Worlds tournament in Dallas, TX! The competition will be from Thursday-Saturday.
If you’d like to watch the Vex competition from Seattle, you can view it on NASA’s website: http://robotics.nasa.gov/
Cancellation Update - Important
Sorry about the previous message… there WILL be a meeting this Wednesday the 29th, as well as the other days of the week. However, the other days still apply, and we will NOT meet on the 6th and 13th. Please excuse my error, sorry for confusing everybody.
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