Robotics Summer Plans?

[jaganser]

-Community outreach events (state fair, ect.)
-Summer camp (design-build-program-compete; robot in a week)
-Underwater robot for cleaning the bottom of the lake
-flying robot (because its cool)
-elevator lift (for practice)
-chairman's video (you never have enough time during the season)

[Duke461]

Lots of stuff.
For most of the summer, our meeting schedule is Monday (6:30-9:00), Wednesday (6:30-9:00), and Saturday (1:00-5:00). We are currently making our robot better for the 2011 season, as we have three offseason competitions: MARC, IRI, and CAGE Match. Making it better consists of Programming, Fixing the lift system, improving minibot, improving deployment system, driver practice, etc. We also have VEX and FTC teams and sometimes start working before the beginning of the school year.
The previous week and this week we are hosting LEGO robotics camps for kids ~5-10 years old, and VEX camps for kids ~14 years old. This starts at 8 in the morning and ends at 3 in the afternoon. During this time, some FRC students like me, are there the whole time helping them and working on the FRC bot.
We also do outreach such as library visits, mall demonstrations, elementary and middle school demonstrations, Dodge for Cancer, etc. These are usually done on weekends in the afternoon, when little kids are most free to visit places like libraries. Usually we demonstrate with an old robot, like Rowdy 10 from Lunacy, or Jumpdrive.
Another thing we do consistently is go to the state fair and state house. This is a great way to get recognition in the community and with big name politicians.
Other years we have worked on making or designing new robots or robot aspects, such as Jumpdrive, as mentioned earlier, or a CAD for a Crab Pod. This year we might be making a robot that will shoot little ~2" diameter balls that have the school's name and whatnot written on them for events like basketball games and so on.
Hope this helps,
Good luck,
-Duke

[ATH1RSTYM00SE]

This coming summer a few members of team 1676 will be converting our 2010 robot to CAN as well as reprogramming it with the labview update so we can train our programmers. Its going to be one heck of a fun summer