Attention Robotics updates!

This coming Friday will be an extended meeting because we need to make up the for time we will lose from labor-day weekend. Expect more of these types of meetings in the future!
Friday 11/5/10 Meeting 3:00pm~7:00pm

As talked about in the meeting today, make sure you keep voting for the Pepsi grant. This is the link:

http://www.refresheverything.com/saintsrobotics

Text: “103624″ To:73774
Get your friends, family, and teachers to vote by e-mail, facebook, and text.

Remember the Pre-season workshop is Nov 13th in Tacoma and we will be providing carpools. The VEX competition at Redmond High School is on Nov 20th. Keep those day open because we will ALL be going.

Pre-season Workshop for new members!

We recommend that all new members attend the Pre-season workshop!

What:

This workshop is intended to introduce all new FRC teams to the FIRST program. We will cover many topics in workshop sessions, listed below. Come visit some of the veteran teams, attend our workshops to find details on various topics. We will have a robot expo, last years game setup, robots on the floor, and some veteran teams (mentors and students) who can answer your questions.

Where:

Aviation High School
615 S 200th St
Des Moines, WA 98198

Who:

All new teams, mentors, and potential teams and mentors. You can bring all or just part of your new team. We highly recommend teachers, mentors, and your key students attend this workshop. Your entire team is cordially invited.

When:

Doors open at 9:15 am and we should be wrapping up around 3:00pm. The venue is a small high school. Bus facilities are available. Parking is not abundant, so carpooling is suggested.

How:

If you are coming, let us know about it. At the top of this page is a quick little form to tell us how many you intend to bring. This helps us plan for food and drinks.

Cost:

This event is free, except for lunch. We will do the usual Pizza and Soda style lunch. $5.00 per person for lunch.

For more information visit:

http://www.firstwa.org/FRC/Workshops/RookieWorkshop/tabid/155/Default.aspx

Showing the robot during the Link Crew Orientation

Hey guys! We have been given the opportunity to show the robot during the Link Crew Orientation lunch break which is from 12:00pm on August 24th (Tuesday). We will be trying to recruit new students as well as getting more people to know about our club.
If you haven’t been going to summer meetings this is a great chance to get involved!
The Orientation is on

Robotics Poster Making!

Attention ALL robotics members!
We need to make posters and put them up at Interlake High School and we need EVERYONE to come help make posters!

We will be meeting Wednesday from 1-3pm at StudentRND. The Address is: 12729 Northup Way, Suite 30, Bellevue, 98005

Then we will be meeting on Friday at 9am to put up posters!
We need all the help we can get so bring your friends along too!

Programming meeting at the King County Library

There will be a programming meeting held at the Bellevue King County Library in room #1 On Sunday (8/15/10) from 12:00pm to 4:15pm. If you’re interested in programming or just plain want to see the FRC robot you should come!
If you’re there to program please try and bring your own laptop!

Car Wash ticket Selling!

We’ll be selling carwash tickets around the Neighborhoods at Interlake on Saturday from 1-5pm.
We need as many people to come as possible!

Just meet at the front of Interlake at 1pm and we’ll split up into teams to sell carwash tickets! There will be ice cream too!

Robotics Build Meeting

We are now starting on the build process of the robothon competition.
We will be having a meeting from 1pm to 5pm on Saturday again at sRND

Build Meeting

there will be a build meeting from 1-5pm on Sunday (7/11/10) at StudentRND
the address is:
12729 Northup Way, Suite 30
Bellevue, WA

Everyone in build needs to come because this will be the official start to building the robothon robot.
We will be testing and brainstorming. Also, this is a chance to learn CAD.