Tech High Robotics 675

     On February 21st, 2012, the robot was bagged at 11:43 pm. It weighed roughly 104.4 pounds. With build season over, we had a short three week period to manufacture team buttons and get the whole team CPR certified.

     On March 15th, roughly fifteen team members drove down to U.C. Davis to prepare for the competition. On March 16th, the rest of the team, roughly forty members drove down to U.C. Davis. We ended up placing 48th out of 50.

     On March 30th, the team will be driving to San Jose for another competition. Hopefully, we’ll place in the top ten.

     Good luck to all other F.I.R.S.T teams out there!

There are three days left of build season! Most of the team is at Larry’s shop working on transmissions and the payload. We hope that we can get a lot done and get the robot up and running.

      Happy end of the third week of build season! The robot is still being built, but we should finish it by the 4.5 week mark.

     The parts for the robot should be arrive on Tuesday. Manufacturing is making a prototyping of the shooter. Programming has been working with the test bot, making sure the basic program works. CAD is polishing off the design. Presentation is waiting to go to Portola Systems, Inc. Media and Website finished the recruiting video, and it will be played at local middle schools.

     The team chose the Titan theme, and it will be a black shirt. The robot will be silver, with white mist.

          Happy third week of build season, everyone! The robot is coming along, and the pressure is on to finish it at the 4.5 weeks mark.

          Manufacturing has finished the prototype, and the parts for the robot are supposed to arrive this week. Programming has been working with the test bot. CAD is working on the final details of the design. Presentation is polishing off their upcoming presentation at Portola Systems, Inc. Awards is working on the Woodie Flowers award, as well as the Chairman’s award. Media and Website have been keeping all media outlets updated, taking pictures, and working on a recruiting video.

         Members spent Sunday cleaning the shop and making sure all of the tools were in order. Tomorrow, the team will be voting on a theme and t-shirt designs.

• Dragon theme
• Card Suit theme
• Titan theme
• Preposterous Rhinoceros theme

• The team website has some new content on it. Hopefully, all content will be up by the end of the week.
• Field Elements are getting finished.

• February 16th: Award Applications Due
• February 21st: Bag-N-Tag
• March 29th through March 31st: San Jose Competition
• April 26th through April 28th: Championship

Group Updates:

• Presentation prepared for an upcoming presentation at Portola Systems Inc.
• Awards is currently working on nominations for awards as well as working on the Chairmen award.
• Manufacturing finished the chassis designs and came up with three preferred payload designs. They also started building field elements.
• Programming is setting up and testing new software and a Kinect. They have received a test bot and have tested the transmission on it.
• CAD transferred paper designs onto the computer.
• Website/Media is keeping all social media outlets updated, as well as taking pictures.

Manufacturing

Leaders: Grayson and Skyler

Members:  Aaron, Arthur C, Ben A, Ben D, Corey, Curtis, David, Devon, Giorgio, Janel, Jeremy M, Jeremy S, Josh, Katie B, Max, Michael G, Peter, Ryan C, Ryan G, Samantha, Sebastian, Toni, Will H.

Safety

Leader: Karl

Members: Adolfo, Corey, Jacob, Janel, Josh, Ryan G, Ryan S

Programming

Leaders: Charlie and T.J.

Members: Dylan, Evan H, Geoffrey, Jesse, Julian, Lena, Michael G, Neil, Noah D, Noah P, Skyler

Website/Media

Leader: Rebecca

Members: Ashley, Austin, Brad, Gower, LeeAnn, Megan, Ricky, Vincent

CAD

Leader: Toni

Members: Alex, Gower, Livy

Awards

Leaders: Annique and Bailey

Members: Brent, Jeremy M, Jon T, Megan, Parke, Zack H

Scouting

Leader: Grayson

Members: Annique, Ashley, Bailey, Jeremy M, Jon T, Katie B, Megan, Emily

Presentation

Leader: Megan

Members: Annique, Bailey, Brad, Jeremy M, Josh, Katie B, Vincent

Things we completed today:

• Finished cardboard prototypes
• Built a ramp

Things we started today:

• CAD