Amazing!

It's been another productive couple weeks. It's been very impressive to see and feel the energy at our meetings.

Fundraising:
Much thanks to Donna Hawkins from the PTSO for helping us make follow up calls to potential sponsors! This is much appreciated.

The disc golf tournament is right around the corner! Let's get the word out and get more people to sign up. Also, let's check with Mike to see if there is anything we need to do to prepare for it.

Dylan has been heading up the Bake Sales and is also organizing our first Smoothie Sale tomorrow during school. But, we need to do more! We only have a little over a month to raise $3000 more! Let's ALL pitch in and help fund raise. Do whatever you can think of ask friends, family, businesses, post on Facebook, etc. If we don't achieve this goal, there will be NO robot competition for us this year!

Roger the Robot:
He is coming along stupendously. The key ways in his wheels seem to be staying in now. We'll have to monitor these to make sure that the fix is holds up. His solenoids are finally working and the pneumatics system is 90% up and running. His autonomous line tracking is also working except for a few minor changes that need to be done to the code. That's right, he can drive himself now! His arm supports have also been re-attached and he is looking more and more like a finished robot. The team working on the gearbox has done great by making the box smaller and minimizing the flex and play in the gears. Once that is complete, we will be able to attach it to Roger and try to grab and hang some tubes.

And More:
The crate is in the process of being built. We made some headway last week but now we are in need of some tools before we can finish that up.

Blayne has been teaching the noobs how to program. The more programmers we have, the more we'll be able to divide up the work during build season.

Also, Megan did great in writing up a tutorial for Autodesk and getting all the new recruits to learn that as well.



Very proud of all the hard work,
Team Mom

PS Thanks to DJ for babysitting during club!