Team Update: April 2, 2009

Tonight Mr. Hinde gave tasks out to everybody who was here. Mr. Don is coming up with tasks for the other students to complete. All of these tasks are to be completed before PARC because we want the majority of these things on the robot for PARC.

Shannon -- Finding information on the accelerometer
Mark -- Finding information on the gyrometer
Collin -- Looking up code to program the robot to track trailers and follow them
Sammy -- Look up codes for accelerometer and gyrometer that have already been created
Mathew -- Take VEX bot home and program it
Mikey -- Make the Safety Animation Video for next year's season. This is to have MAJOR progress on it before PARC
Rachel -- New pit design. Make a model of the pit the way you want it to be.
Ally -- ???
Christian -- ???
Que -- ???
Montrey -- ???

Everybody who is not on this list, get in touch with either Mr. Hinde or Mr. Don to find out what task you are to do before PARC.

SATURDAY
For anybody doing the 5K......Wear your practice shirt and team sweatshirt to the race. Remember, registration starts at 8 and the race starts at 9. For students, so far we have Sammy, Shannon, Collin, Christian, and Mark.

Team Update: March 2, 2009

I need everybody's section of the robot book TOMORROW because the book needs to be put together and packed tomorrow. You need to have pictures included in your section of the book. If you don't have, contact somebody to get pictures.

For anybody who needs a reminder (which hopefully you don't need one and I will get an email back from everybody today with their section of the book included/attached in the email before midnight.....), here are the assigned parts again:

Section 1: Drive system - Shelby and Rachel
Section 2: Wiring - Sammy
Section 3: Pneumatics - Mat Moran
Section 4: Ball Collector - Mikey and Q
Section 5: Dumping Mechanism - Christian and Montrey
Section 6: Framework - Ally and Shannon
Section 7: Progamming - Collin and Mark
Section 8: Build Season and Schedule - Mrs. Danner and other mentors

It is YOUR responsibility to print out your section with pictures and it is YOUR responsibility to make sure it gets put in my hands tomorrow.

Team Update: February 13, 2009 (Part 2)

For those who were on the team last year, hopefully you all remember the robot book we made up. For those who are new on the team, each year we make a book about the robot. We put as much information as we think is important in there. It is a great help when a judge asks you a question and you aren't sure of the answer and you know it's in there. It helps us be prepared which could possibly help us win an award.

Here is the breakdown of our topics and who has signed up for what:
Section 1: Drive System - Shelby
Section 2: Wiring - Sammy
Section 3: Pneumatics -
Section 4: Ball Collector - Mikey
Section 5: Dumping Mechanism - Christian
Section 6: Frame work - Ally/Shannon (Shannon for bumpers)
Section 7: Programming - Collin/Mark
Section 8: Build Season & Schedule

We need someone to sign up to do the Pneumatics section of the book, and we still need Matt F., David, Mat M., Montrey and Q to sign up for something. We will have doubles on some sections of the book, which is a good thing. The people that still need to sign up for something, I will be asking you today (in 2 hours hehe) what section you want to work on. It is important that you put as much information as you know on that subject in this book.We need to have the rough draft by tomorrow, and the final draft must be turned in by Monday at the latest. We will also like to have pictures for each section. If you aren't able to take pictures, chances are either I have already taken a picture of that part of the robot. If you want more or I didn't take a picture of that part, tell me exactly what it is that you want me to take a picture of, and I'll get the best angle to take the picture. Today during the morning since there will only be about 2 mentors there with us, each person is to start writing up their section of the book unless they are actively working on the robot. Come lunch time, it will be too hecktic to write up parts for the book.

4 more days til we ship SAM off!!!

Team Update: February 13, 2009

Here is an updated list of who is doing what section in the robot book:

Section 1: Drive System - Shelby and Rachel
Section 2: Wiring - Sammy and Matt Fordham
Section 3: Pneumatics - Mat Moran
Section 4: Ball Collector - Mikey and Q
Section 5: Dumping Mechanism - Christian and Montrey
Section 6: Framework - Ally and Shannon (Bumpers)
Section 7: Programming - Collin and Mark
Section 8: Build Season and Schedule - Mrs. Danner and all the other mentors

I need a rough draft by tomorrow and a final copy of your section by Monday. We don't have time to put this off. If you don't have your section tomorrow, you are going to be working on your section instead of working on the robot. And if you aren't working on the robot, Mr. Hinde and the rest of the mentors here will not be happy because there are many things to do. So, make sure to complete your section of the book. And remember, PICTURES!!!! :) Put pictures in your section. If you can't get any pictures, tell me and I will take pictures of the things you want me to take pictures of and will send it to you. The pictures don't have to be in your rough draft, but definitely in your final copy.Oh, and as a reminder to everybody: Make sure to bring your shiny shirt tomorrow. Somebody will be down in our workshop at around 11 to take a picture of all of us and our robot. So, be here, awake and ready! :)

Sammy

Team Update: January 21, 2009

Mr. Hinde - Shannon
Mr. Mohrfeld - Sammy
Mrs. George - Shelby
Mr. George - Ally
Ms. Kirk - Collin
Elmo - Christian
Aaron - Montrey
Mr. B - Mat Moran
Mr. Weick - Mikey
Mr. Jerry - Rachel
Mr. Fordham - Matt Fordham
Mr. Don - Q
Mrs. Danner - David
Mrs. Callow - Mark

That is the list we had as of last Thursday. Tomorrow is Mentor's Day. Everyone, please bring your gift/card/whatever you're bringing with you tomorrow to the workshop to show your appreciation to the mentor you chose. If you haven't gotten it yet, remember that we put a $15 limit on the gift to make it fair.

3 more weeks of build season left!!

Team Update: January 13, 2009

Hello everybody!

For everybody that was at the meeting tonight, hopefully we got closer to Mr. Hinde's goal. I was primarily working programming, so I have no clue how far anybody else got tonight.

As for Mentor's Day, we managed to get everybody but David and Q signed up for a mentor. Here is the list we compiled tonight:
Mr. Hinde - Shannon
Mr. Mohrfeld - Sammy
Mrs. George - Shelby
Mr. George - Ally
Ms. Kirk - Collin
Elmo - Christian
Aaron - Montrey
Mr. B - Mat Moran
Mr. Weick - Mikey
Mr. Jerry - Rachel
Mr. Fordham - Matt Fordham
Mr. Don - **Still need somebody**
Mrs. Danner - **Still need somebody**
Mrs. Callow - Mark

Q and David, we need to know whether you want to do Mr. Don or Mrs. Danner, preferably by Thursday. If I don't have an answer from you by then, I'll either get it from you that night at the meeting, or will get a hold of you somehow.

If anybody needs help coming up with an idea for the mentor you chose, please ask for help from somebody. Remember, we are putting a $15 limit on whatever you're getting your mentor. Be creative! For anybody who was on the team in fall of 2007, you'll hopefully remember that little contest we had to figure out who knew the mentors best. One of our mentors had wanted to be on Broadway. An idea for whichever mentor that was could be to create kind of like a trophy for them, one like they would get for being an excellent actor/actress on Broadway.

See everybody on Thursday!

Team Update: January 12, 2009

We've gotten a few responses back on who wants to do which mentor:
Mr. Hinde - Shannon
Mrs. Danner -
Mr. Don -
Elmo - Christian
Aaron -
Mr. Mohrfeld - Sammy
Ms. Kirk - Collin
Mr. Fordham -
Mrs. George -
Mr. George -
Mr. Weick - Mikey
Mr. B -