[221Sarahborg]

This summer my team is really going to go through a lot of organization and trying to restart after some methods of doing things that didn't prove to help us in the best of ways. The first thing being that we stressed the roles of what our captains should be. Our voting was more focused on what our captains would bring, and how they would benefit the team.

For our team, we're really set on making sure people know the SolidWorks that we use so we can have people ready and set to know it enough to help mock up the more serious designs at the beginning of build season, as well as doing very similar with electrical (since they're putting out a new alternate for the cRIO). We're planning on finishing projects that we've had for years like our penny smasher and our t-shirt canon robot mark two (named Mr. Ballista, also a remodel off the chassis of our Breakaway robot). We'll be testing different drive trains and also modeling them in CAD as practice and seeing if we can obtain a CNC Router somehow.

We'll be starting fundraisers including FIRST's light bulb program, and trying to find others we can do to help fund extra stuff. I will be working on our new website whenever I can since our old one is very out of date.

For other than our team, we're currently in the middle of teaching an Android App Camp through KC Power Source that's offered to middle school and high schoolers. It's teaching basic apps on Android devices that they can download or expand on to introduce them into the idea of the programming mindset. We're going to visit sponsors and a Cub Scout day camp with this year's robot as well as a Girl Scout day camp with last year's since he's been based off of Tow Mater from Cars and their theme is Disney so it fit better. We're also going to be showcasing at Kansas City's Maker Faire.

I definitely doubt that's all, but ti's enough to keep us busy!