Team 980 is meeting at NEY Community Center on Mon. Jan. 18 (Martin Luther King Day) from 4 pm to 7 pm (some of us will be there in the early afternoon). We then resume our regular schedule: Tues and Thurs at John Burroughs HS from 5 pm to 8 pm, Wed and Fri at NEY from 6 pm to 9 pm and Sat 1 pm to 6 pm, also at the NEY Community Center.
For those who have not yet joined us, there is still time to become a member of our robotics team. Please visit us!
We’ve made good progress with the robot design in Week 1. Our first prototype of the ball control roller showed we can easily possess a ball, even when driving backward! We now need to develop the ball shooter concept and decide on a drive system design. By next Sat, we should have our robot capabilities fully defined and design concepts well in hand.
Team 980 has a new website in development: www.team980.com has launched! Students interested in working on the website should come to at least one our NEY meetings this week. Excellent internet access on multiple computers available at NEY. Once we’ve decided on web-site content, students can continue to improve the site at home. The website needs to be complete by Feb 18 to be eligible for awards. We will also discuss the Chairman’s Award this week (also due on Feb 18).
See you this week!
Team 980 Outreach: On Saturday afternoon, Team 980 received a special visit by several Cub Scouts from Delphi Academy. They are FIRST Lego League members and likely future FRC participants! They came to interview engineers to earn activity awards towards their Webelos rank. Our engineering mentors enjoyed describing their experiences in product design and space exploration.
