Paly Robotics

1) Shirt Money was due today! We are still accepting late checks.

2)FIRST update!
-The new controller has been shipped to us and will be arriving soon!
-The animation is due Dec. 1.

3) Projects
-E.M.M.A -Electro Magnetic Mass Accelerator
-Crate- a new crate for the robot
-Pocket Bike- Rasmus has completed his pocket bike!

NO MEETING NEXT WEEK! HAVE A NICE THANKSGIVING!!

Paly Robotics now has a Twitter!

To sign up you need a free twitter account.
Just go to twitter.com/roboticslab

We hope to be using twitter as one way we relay information to the team, such as when we will be opening the lab, etc.

1) CAL Games- (10/24-10/25)
- Saturday, Pits Open At 7am
-Saturday, Opening Ceremony is at 8:30am
-If you would like to car pool please meet at the woodshop at 7am. Call Alek at (203) 247-1890 with any questions.

2) Sign up to learn stuff!!
-Nobody has signed up yet; we need to know what you want to learn.

3)Safety Animation is being worked on.

4) Chris introduced Twill Tech. For more info visit www.twilltech.com

1. CAL Games (10/25) in San Jose
-We need to:
~Finish fixing arm
-Driver Tryouts are THIS Saturday at 1.
-Times will be posted here soon.

2. Safety Animation
-The rules have been released by FIRST

3. Learn Stuff: Lathe, Mill, Weld, Programming, etc.
-Let us know what you want to learn, and we will be happy to oblige.
-On the white board, write your name

4.Chis's News
-Got more money for Laser Finger
-The Fogarty Institute (helps get ideas to market) may add the Laser Finger to their education division.

There is no school on Thursday and Friday, so we will not have a meeting.
We WILL open the lab on Saturday starting at 1pm.

Hope to see you there!
Alek Ornaf
Captain

1.Introductions, name and grade of everyone on the team

2.What is FIRST?
-For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
-This is the main competition that we compete in each year, and is what we use most of our resources for.

3.What are the subteams?
-Build- construct the robot.

-Public Relations- contact sponsors to raise money to compete in competitions

-Animation- a separate FIRST challenge in which the teams makes a 30 second animation using 3d Studio Max.

Sponsors are what makes Paly Robotics possible. We take no money from our high school, so all of our activities are covered by grants and private sponsorship.

We accept donations from private enterprises and families, but also encourage companies to sponsor the team. Our sponsors gain many benefits, such as logo placement on robots and the website, sponsorship plaques, and a tax deduction (as we are a 501.3(c) non profit organization).

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Here is a complete list of our sponsors for the 2007-2008 season. Thank you all for your generous contributions!

by Jane Volk-Brew
The Palo Alto High School Robotics Team, The Vikings, also known as “Team 8”, which had participated in three regionals during the February-March competition season (Portland, Silicon Valley, and Las Vegas) traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for the FIRST Robotics Challenge championship last weekend. 18 team members were able to go.