Welcome to another fantastic year with the PALY Robotics team!

The PALY robotics team has had to readjust this year, as several key team members graduated. However our prodigious Nick Clayton has won us our award for excellence in programming, and remains our Programming Captain this year. Our new PR captain is John Xia, a senior who's been with the team for 3 years. Rasmus Rossen is our new Build Captain, so that has been an easy transition since he and Eric "Vlad" Vicenti were good friends. Our new Animation Captain is Daniel Naymark, who has plenty of talent. Most of the animation team graduated last year, so it has been a more difficult transition.

All of our alumni from last year found good universities at which they are studying engineering. Among them are Stanford, Cal Poly, CAL, UCLA, and UC Davis.

Our team is going to visit and tour the Dreamworks campus, on October 8 after the meeting. We are hoping that it will be especially instructive to Daniel and the rest of the Animation team, as we will be partnering with the company this year. We will also be displaying last year's robot at the campus. We do not have all the details yet, but if you are a parent able to drive students on October 8, after school, please let us know!

A special thanks to Dreamworks and all the supportive parents.