DeWALT Robotics 2775

The Holidays came early for the team yesterady…..come to the meeting tomorrow and findout what we got.

For pictures of robots and different types of drivetrains, manipulators, collectors you can visit this site and see examples  http://www.firstroboticscanada.org/site/node/96

A listing of the FIRST Scholarships is here, please pick the ones you would like to apply for and we well help you get those in. http://usfirst.org/scholarshipsearch.aspx

For videos of previous competitions  visit this site. http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/

This is a list of all the teams competiting with us in st. louis: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&event=MO&year=2009&sort=teamnum

This is a list of all the teams competing in the competition this year you can view their websites by clicking on the team name: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&year=2009&sort=teamnum

The meeting scheduled for Tuesday November 4th is moving due to election day. That meeting will now be Wednesday November 5th. The time and location have not changed.

The topic for this meeting is drivetrains. If you would like to get a head start on this top take a look at the information located here. http://www.simbotics.org/files/first-robotics-canada/workshop-presentations/mobility.pdf

Tomorrow we will be holding the internal vex competition. Try and make sure your robots are done by 6:30pm. The field will be available for practice at 5:45.
The rules to the game are below for reference.

See you all tomorrow,

Greg

Nice job everyone yesterday with the straw exorcise. It was really great to see you all starting to form into a team and jumping right in to solve engineering challenges. As I said we are going to take a little break to get some paperwork done. Hopefully it will be a very short break. I will be posting the photos, as soon at I get the gallery up and running on the site so keep your eyes pealed.

In the mean time it might be a good idea for you all to take a look at some of the past games, robots, and start getting a feel for the FIRST organization. I urge you all to take a look at the following websites.

www.usfirst.org - the website of the organization. We are going to be involved in “FRC” so you can read about that. The documentation from old games is on this site if you browse around.

http://www.thebluealliance.net - has loads of videos from past events

www.chiefdelphi.com - forums with almost 30,000 members talking about this competition. Check them out, there is lots of information on that site. Also the photo gallery is a good place to start.

I hope to see all of you soon, for our next meeting. We will start building robots like the ones found on www.vexrobotics.com

Greg

We will be having a table setup at the Parent Teacher night on Thursday 9/11/08 from 3:00-6:30 pm

Also our first after school team meeting will be held Tuesday 9/15/08 at 2:30 Room TBA.

keep checking our calendar for the most up to date date and time information.

Lots of info to come, but lets get ready to roll.