We are not meeting on Thursday due to many students going to prom that night, so our next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 25.
There is homework that is due by Tuesday. If you are not able to be there at the meeting, make sure to email your homework to Mrs. Danner and/or Mrs. George to get credit for doing it.
The first assignment is to pick a drive system that you saw on another robot that you liked. Make sure you do not choose the same drive as another person. There should be eight different designs turned in on Tuesday. With the design, you have to explain why you like it, why you think it will work, and what the challenges might be in driving or building the drive system.
The second assignment is for recruiting. We are planning on going to the elementary schools in Salem County soon to recruit 8th graders for next fall and the 5-7 graders for the county wide FLL team we are starting. In order to visit these schools, certain things must be accomplished.
- Sammy is in charge of drafting up a letter explaining what we would like to do the assembly about and when we would be interested in doing it.
- Ally and Rachel are in charge of putting together the presentation for the students. This includes the demo and any speaking that is going to be done at the assemblies.
- Collin, Shannon, and Mikey are in charge of the agenda for the hour we will be there. They are to include the demonstration of the robot in the agenda.
Mat and Christian are in charge of surveying other teams about their most successful techniques of fundraising. Our goal is to do fundraisers that have profits of thousands of dollars, not hundreds. Mat and Christian are to each have 25 good ideas each by Tuesday.
Over the course of the rest of the school year and the summer, we are planning on having a new drive to work with, the demo bot running, and students learning programming and computer drafting if they are interested. This is the time to learn these skills, not during build season.
Another thing we need to do is fundraise like crazy. In order to go to one local and one away regional and Nationals next year, we need to raise about $20,000. There was discussion tonight about possible incentives to raise the money: if the students raise $X, the mentors have to do X. If the students raise $Y, the mentors have to do Y. The mentors are in charge of coming up with the levels of money and what they will have to do if we raise that much money.
Check your emails, students, to read what Mrs. George needs from everybody as well. Hope everybody who has prom on Thursday night has fun! Hope everybody has a good week, and I'll see everyone at robotics next Tuesday.
-Sammy
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