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Important News Update

Hi Everybody :)

So the competition is over and we performed very well this year. I’m really proud of everyone: the scouts, the safety people, the spirit people, the pit crews, the mentors, the drivers, the programmers, the pit reps, the people who brought food to the pit people etc. Thanks to everybody.

Now, we have three things to do:

1) If you took pictures at the competition, please upload them on facebook (to the Saints Robotics page) if you have one. If you don’t have a facebook, send (or exchange through USB) the pictures to someone who has facebook (I think Marc-Antoine volunteered to put up pictures). We can all look at pictures and then upload the ones which aren’t inappropriate on the website forums so that we can still have a record but we can control who is able to view it.

2) We will have a meeting this Wednesday and we will go over the competition in what is called a “Post-mortem” – which literally means “after the death”. But for us it’s more like “after the win”. But in any case we will brainstorm and review the whole season and see what we can do better and what we can do better next year (I hope you’re all coming back!) We really need your feedback to improve the program!

3) We will start working on new projects! We have a ton of cool ideas for off-season projects, and we need your creativity and ideas too. It’s a great time to get more experience with engineering outside the crunch-time of build season :) PR/FR also needs to start working on budget for next year and Kevin and I need to find new officers!!

Great job to everybody, I’m really happy so many people showed up. I hope you had as much fun as I did!

Olivier

Important Update

Hey everybody!

A couple quick reminders:

1) Final meeting this Wednesday! Make sure to come!

2) Get your teachers to sign the pre-arranged absence form.

3) Sign up on the FIRST website and get your parents to approve you!

4) Talk to your parents about Carpooling! We need A LOT more parents to carpool! Call or send an email to Kevin Kimura at 425-533-7098 or Kevinsushi2@hotmail.com

5) Make sure you have a T-shirt. Pick it up on Wednesday if you do not have one yet.

6) Get all the information necessary from your teachers concerning missing work. We don’t want to ruin your grades.

Thanks everyone!  Get ready for the highlight of this year’s season!!

The Build Season is over!!

The build season is over and the robot has been shipped off!!! Thank you to every member who participated in the construction of the robot! Also, a special thank you and shout out to all of our mentors without whom we would not be where we are today. They have spent countless hours helping us build this robot, spending time on the design, programming, construction and testing phase.

Also, a big thank you to our Sponsor STI Optronics for letting us use their facilities during the Build Season.

Thanks to all the parents who let your kid go to the robotics meeting, and also thank you for feeding us at meetings when we were hungry. :)

We are really proud of our finished product, so anticipate awesome videos on the website in the near future.

GO SAINTS!

FTC Competition Volunteering!

Hey everybody,

There’s a First Tech Challenge competition this Sunday at Bellevue High School from 8 AM to about 5 PM! This is a great opportunity for us to help out Kevin Ross (FIRST Washington President) by volunteering there. This is a ton of fun because FTC challenges are much closer to real FRC competitions than Vex or FLL. You get the whole package: the fun environment, free food at lunch, a cool t-shirt, volunteer hours and you get brownie points for Saints Robotics!

There are two shifts: about 8AM to 12 PM and from 12 PM to 5 PM. We already have four people signed up to go (Dmitri, Vivek, Dom, Daphna) and it would be super fun if more people showed up! Come on people, you have time, do something and help out the community and robotics! This isn’t even annoying or boring, you’re going to a FULL FTC COMPETITION! With tons of robots from other teams! Great sneak peak into FIRST competitions if you’ve never been to one :D

Send an email to Kevin or Olivier if you’re going and we’ll get in contact with Kevin Ross about it immediately so he knows you’re there. If you just feel like showing up, that’s fine too! You don’t have to stick to the shifts, but it would be preferable.

Thanks!

PAY YOUR DUES!

Everybody, remember that we will start bothering you about paying your dues on time! We only had 39 students pay their dues from a total of about 60+ students!! Remember we will harass you in a legal and constructive manner until you pay your dues! Go to Mrs. Brown and give her $25! NOW! The official due date is past! Other clubs would start charging more at this point, but we’re nice! Go pay your $25!!!

You can sound my tone of voice. I’ve used a lot of exclamation marks. This is the type of annoying voice that will follow you until you PAY YOUR DUES! See it’s still here… Just remember to… i won’t finish that sentence. NOW!

Parent Meeting

Hi all members!

Remember that we will have a parent meeting on September 30th from 7PM to 8PM in Mr. Cooney’s room (1808). Please make sure your parents come, especially if this is your first year participating in Saints Robotics. We will be discussing what the club does, how we are different from other clubs as well as how parents can help us succeed in many ways this year.

Make sure they can come!

DUES ARE DUE!

Remember to pay your $25 participation fees by September 30th!! Go to Mrs. Brown, the accountant to pay. Checks must be made out to Interlake High School with Saints Robotics Fees in the memo line.

See you all tomorrow team!

CARWASH!!

Hi guys,

Important notice to all of you and all who want to participate. Saints Robotics is organizing a carwash THIS SUNDAY (August 2nd) anytime from 8AM to 6 PM. We have the whole day to ourselves and it will be at Jitter’s coffee next to Sears.

The full address is “15010 NE 20th St, Redmond, WA 98052″

Jitters provides all the water for the carwash, but we need to bring our own rags, soap and sponges. That means that if you come, we would like you to bring at least something that we need. We will be organizing days to make posters before then so we are ready for the carwash. If we can make a hefty amount of cash this is something we will probably repeat, and don’t worry, it will be a ton of fun.

if you can come, please tell my brother, Marc-Antoine and email him or text him (ma-fontenelle@hotmail.com or text at 425-516-9069. Really try come and we will have a lot of fun. You don’t have to come for the whole thing but if you can come for a couple hours, tell Marc and we will have a really successful and fun event!!!

Olivier

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!

Wednesday Meeting

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.