Don’t forget that ROBOTICS IS BACK! We do have a meeting this wednesday so be sure to come. We will be working on organizing the end of the year BBQ and many other fun activities, so make sure you can at least try to come.
Archives for May 2009
PR/FR Meeting Monday 5/18!
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We will be working on creating sponsor materials, specifically the presentation ppt :-)
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!
Send Amanda an email if you can go! We really need volunteers!
(Quoted from OpenGoo Note)
End of the year Picnic!
Hi everybody!
The end of the year Picnic will be held at Crossroads Park (check back for more details) on June 13th from 7PM to 9PM. These are approximate times, but we will need people to be there at around 6:30 to 9:30 to help set up and break down. See the OpenGoo note for specific details on what is needed.
This event will basically sum up our year together, and don’t forget, this event is also made for your parents and family members! This event will be a kind of potluck so everybody should try to bring some food (we will have specifics later, but eg: chips, buns, hot dog meat things, condiments, cookies, salads etc…)
This will be a super fun event so we hope everybody can come! Don’t forget to write it on your calendar then highlight it with a red sharpy!
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