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We here at team 135's head quarters, also have a summer camp for kids! In fact, last summer's session was our best one yet! We got kids from around the area involved with the autodesk inventor programs, photoshop, and they also welded some of their own trophies! Its good to know that there are other teams out there spreading the goodness of robotics around!

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team 815 usually does some street fairs and loads of fundrasing

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We are going to chill together and gets people ready for next year. We will prolly do some fun "team-bonding" stuff! yeah!The teamwill also be organizing IRI! can't wait!

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IRI! YEE HAW! Definitely the best off-season competition...also the only one I've ever been to ;) :o .
Other than that, we'll be teaching the newBs the basics of the tools, fundraising, fixing our bot for IRI, maybe some prototyping, and more fundraising.

Jay TenBrick- look out in that talent show, I hear there's this kid who is really good on the banjo...and another that's got a guitar, he got the judges' vote for best act last year, and that banjo kid was second... Dean Simmons and the Kamens couldn't hold a candle to 'em last year, and I'm bettin that it will be the same way this year...but I reckon I'm a little biased, that guitar-playin guy is on our team and that banjo kid is my little brother :cool: :p .

Seriously, IRI is great. we use it to teach our new members (we do recruiting in the spring) and to decide on next season's drive team. I hope y'all can make it, if ya do stop by the pit and say howdy, if I'm not there, I'm probably drivin the bot and will be back soon, or I'm outside givin bullwhip lessons, and then I shouldn't be too hard to find :yikes: . JH

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YAY IRI!

and powertrains....

and robot camp....

.... :D

-Q

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I think we're planning on hosting a Lego camp for middle-school age kids in the community. We also are gonna take a crack at fund raising, possibly with some sort of VEX competition and a laptop/iPod raffle. What else...

The robot will show at the Chelsea Community Fair as well as the Ypsi Heritage Festival. We've realized it's a good way for the people in town to learn what's been going on lately. Most of them don't even have an inkling of what FIRST is.

Heh heh heh...research and development. We're gonna try to fix all the stuff that didn't work too well this past competition season, as well as (possibly) develop a transmission or an omnibot.

And lastly (but certainly not leastly) we get to teach a lot of people proper tool usage/maintenance. This past season, training started a little late...like, during the build. This led to all sorts of issues, like inexperienced people gouging the XYvice on our drill press, etc. We need these things to stop happening. It's bound to be a busy summer!

~Anna

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Team Goals: (Fundraising is a given)
1) Get a really good 3pt shooter for Cal Games in October!
2) Learn to CAD designs
3) Clean the entire room
4) Team bonding (unofficial, but its gonna include all our team members because our mentors have a problem with our team going paintballing "team 100".


Personal Summer Goals:
1) Do Deans hw (already worte the letter and got the address, now I just need to mail it)
2) Learn CAD <--- (Mandatory before we build things next year...)
3) Learn enough C to not have to use the easy C
4) Program the camera to sense blue, green and red
5) Learn to prgram the gyros...
6) Robotics Camp!!! @ Palo Alto Research Center!

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Our simple plans;

Fundraise to no end. I want everyone in the club to see a competition other than just the AZ Regional at least once before they graduate.
Plan the year BEFORE it starts for once. Lay out guides on how to finally keep the 40 people who come the first meeting.

And if all that works, maybe a tiny bit of robot work on the side, but not much.

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Team 987 will be fundraising......like everyone else. We also are going to design new gearboxes and expiriment with new drivetrain designs. We will also make a whole new website and expiriment with new sensors with our 2005 robot.

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What is this summer you are talking about? I thought FIRST was year round...