2015 Week #4 Update

Hello Members, Parents, Guardians, Family Members, Supporters and Alumni of Team #203:

 

Sorry for the late e-mail.  We usually try to get the update out on Friday,  but it has been a very busy week!   Congratulations again to all of our hard working students, staff, parents, and volunteers who are working so hard for this program!!  

 

Here is our weekly updated important information!!! 

 

PARENT / FAMILY BOOSTERS

ALL HANDS ON DECK!!!!!!  Our  DESIGNER HANDBAG BINGO is TODAY -  SATURDAY - JANUARY 31.  PLEASE be sure to check the many e-mails sent out by Denise Barr our boosters president about all of the details about the event.  ONLY WITH EVERYONE's HELP WILL THIS BE THE SUCCESS WE NEED TO SUPPORT  OUR TEAM!!!!    Please contact Denise if you have not sold or need tickets and / or have not connected with her regarding what you are able to help with.   

ROBOT PROGRESS
well with the robot's design and build!  The prototype robot is functioning well and we are now building the official "Rocky the Robot" 2015

 

WEEKEND WORK SCHEDULE 1/30 & 1/31
(ALL WORK SESSIONS IN BUILDING #5)

 

Saturday, January 31 (All Members and Supporters Welcome)
Work Session Starting at 9AM until ??

** All assigned students who need to help Mrs. Barr setup at 10:00AM should report to the Magnolia Community Center.  Rides will be provided by parents for those students to the school to work on the robot after setup.  All others can report directly to the school at 9AM.  

*** Note we will need both parents and students to help cleanup and breakdown after the bingo Saturday Night!  Please be sure to contact Denise and let her know if you will be able to help!!!

 

Sunday, January 25 (TEAM LEADERS AND INVITED WORK CREW ONLY)
Work Session Starting at 9AM until ??

 

ONLINE REGISTRATION

IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO.... Another Reminder ALL STUDENTS / PARENTS BOTH RETURNING AND NEW MUST FILL OUT THE ONLINE REGISTRATION PER THE E-MAIL LAST WEEK.  IF YOU NEED DIRECTIONS CHECK OUT THE BLOG POST.

 

SHIRT ORDERS
Look for a letter to come home regarding team shirt orders.  All information and deadlines will be included in the mailing!

 

Thank you all for your support as always.  Please feel free to contact us at anytime with any questions or clarifications!

 

Mr. Tony DePrince and Mr. Andy McAlpin, FIRST Advisors

 

LET’s GO  FIRST!!! GO ROCKY!  GO TEAM 203!!

 

Bingo Update

Good morning,

Thank you to all the parents that attended Saturday’s meeting.  I appreciate your help and input.  Currently we have 24 confirmed baskets.  Pasted their title and description below.  The executive committee was thinking of making a Gift Card tree—so if you would like to contribute a $5 or more gift card for the tree that would be great—if you have another basket you are working on please let me know ASAP.  I would like to place copies of this list on the tables that night for people to review.

If you contributed a basket already and there is not a description (or mine isn’t the best) please email me.

We are planning to meet at the Magnolia Rec Center (625 Brooke Ave) on Saturday the 31^st at 10 to set up—the Rec center is at the crossroad of Albertson and Brooke ave’s.  If you are coming down Evesham Rd from the White Horse Pike, Albertson Ave is the 3^rd right after the railroad tracks. 

Unless Mr. De Prince asks your child to be at CCTS, please meet us at the Rec if you are available.

If you are available to work the start of bingo please be there at 5:30—the doors officially open at 6.

We only have 50 tickets left so if you need tickets please email or text me.

Basket  #	Title	Brief Description
1	Ice cream sundae	Ice Cream maker and sundae supplies
2	BJ’s wholesale club	Membership to BJ’s and shopping bags
3	Avon
4	Classic Cake
5	Night out	Tickets to the Black box theatre and gift certificate for dinner
6	Color Me Mine	Gift Card to Color Me Mine and art supplies
7	Knot Fade Away	Massage
8	31 Bag	Large tote and flat iron cover
9	Traveler	Includes travel size supplies for a quick night away
10	Pinsetters	2hour Bowling Party for up to 10 people
11	Mary Kay	Includes a $75 gift certificate
12	Hair Care
13	Beach Bag	Supplies you need for a day at the beach, just add the sunshine
14	Girl Scouts	Girl Scout Cookie basket
15	Flyers	Authentic signed puck and T-shirt
16	Coffee Time	Kuerig Coffee maker and K-Cup holder
17	Lottery Tree	Lottery Tickets
18	Baskets	Collection of handwoven baskets
19	Manicure	Supplies for hands and nails
20	Girls night in	Snuggly, chick flick and a slushy maker
21	3-D Mascara
22	Computer Monitor
23	Wine Basket	3 different bottles of Moscato (Must be 21 to win)
24	Omaha Steak and Grill	(Must be 21 to win)

 

Have a wonderful and safe day

Denise Barr

2015 Week #3 Update

Hello Members, Parents, Guardians, Family Members, Supporters and Alumni of Team #203:

As of tomorrow, we will be at the half way mark of build season!  That’s right we are at Week #3!  Although we are making good progress, we still have a lot of work to do. 

We wanted to extend a thank you to a our volunteers and students who have been going the extra mile over the last few weeks.  We have been here everyday, literally seven days a week, working late and long hours.  It is this level of dedication that will set us apart from the competition and makes us a strong, cohesive team!!!!

Here is some important information

ROBOT PROGRESS
As many of you saw from the videos on the blog, things are going very well!!!  We will working this weekend on perfecting our tote “hook” and manipulating arms.  Hopefully by the end of the weekend we will have our final design complete and working towards our permanent robot.

WEEKEND WORK SCHEDULE 1/24 & 1/25
(ALL WORK SESSIONS IN BUILDING #5)

Saturday, January 24 (All Members and Supporters Welcome)
Work Session Starting at 9AM until ??

Sunday, January 25 (TEAM LEADERS AND INVITED WORK CREW ONLY)
Work Session Starting at 9AM until ??

PARENT / FAMILY BOOSTERS

·        REMINDER PARENT BOOSTER MEETING SATURDAY   JAN 24 @ 930AM IN BUILDING #5

·        DESIGNER HANDBAG BINGO JANUARY 30.

BLOG AND VIDEO

Reminder check out our blog at http://cctsfirst.blogspot.com/ to check out team updates, videos and pictures.

ONLINE REGISTRATION

Reminder ALL STUDENTS / PARENTS BOTH RETURNING AND NEW MUST FILL OUT THE ONLINE REGISTRATION PER THE E-MAIL LAST WEEK.  IF YOU NEED DIRECTIONS CHECK OUT THE BLOG POST.

Thank you all for your support as always.  Please feel free to contact us at anytime with any questions or clarifications!

Mr. Tony DePrince and Mr. Andy McAlpin, FIRST Advisors

LET’s GO  FIRST!!! GO ROCKY!  GO TEAM 203!!

First Look at Rocky 2015!

We have made some great progress over the past two weeks and have our early prototype driving, lifting, and moving totes!  This is great with just two weeks of work!  This is a testament to all of our hard working students, coaches, and volunteers!!!  

We are on our way to a great season!!!  We have been here seven days a week since kickoff and have worked many late nights!  This hard work is demonstrated through our accomplishments so far!

Here are some short videos of our progress:

Video #1

This was taken at the end of week one.  This is our chassis design using "mechanum" wheels.  As you can see the drive train is very nimble and easily traverse the step both forward and backwards as well as in hover mode.

Video #2

This was taken this past weekend.  It was the first test of our lifting mechanism.  As you can see, it is working very well.  We definitely seem to be on the right track!

Video #3

This was taken last night at about 7:30PM!  This was our drive train working together with our lifting"ladder" placing totes on a stack!  Again, what great progress.

Again, congratulations to all who are working long hours and days to make this happen.

LET’s GO  FIRST!!! GO ROCKY!  GO TEAM 203!!

Parent Meeting and Update

Good evening,

I hope you had a wonderful, restful weekend.

I wanted to update you on the progress of our Bingo-- I can't believe it is in 2 weeks. 

We have purchased the bags that will be our prizes, I have attached pictures of them.  Sometimes posting on social media helps to boost ticket sales.  We have sold a little more that half of our tickets, keep up the great work. I have also attached the flyer in case you need one to share with friends and family

We currently have 10-12 baskets for our silent auction.  If you are willing to donate items for a basket or an entire basket please let me know.

We would like to meet on Saturday January 24th at 9:30 am in the Electronics shop  -- it is across the hall from the machine shop where the kids will be working. My goal is to finalize what needs to be done and who will be helping with what job that day, who can bring baked goods.   If you have any basket donations can you please bring them that day, then we can spend sometime on basket assembly.  I will also be available to exchange money for bingo tickets probably 9-1:00.

As always thanks for you help in advance and if you have any questions of concerns do not hesitate to let me know.

Please find a link to our event flyer here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-sGgCte189KRWdzSUdJYlMzdkk/view?usp=sharing 

Please find a link to our handbag prize photos here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-sGgCte189KWE4wTUNSTm41SHM/view?usp=sharing 

Denise Barr

FIRST ROBOTICS STUDENT / FAMILY ON-LINE REGISTRATION

CCTS FIRST ROBOTICS  FAMILIES AND STUDENT TEAM MEMBERS:

Hope your weekend is going well, as many of you know we have been very busy already working on our robot and other team projects.  We are here bright and early this AM with our team leaders/ returning members. As I stated in my email this past Friday, we will be here again on Monday, 1/19 at 9AM.  For Monday’s work session, all members are welcome!! 

We are writing you this e-mail to ask you to complete a very important on-line registration for our FIRST robotics organization.  The FIRST Robotics Headquarters requires each student to register on the FIRST Robotics website STIMS (Student Team Information Member System).   This is a very simple and quick process that students can do themselves on-line, however some on-line Parent/Guardian Consent forms will be required to completed by Parents as well.   So both students and parents should make sure that this process is completed together.  This registration must be completed by both returning and new student members (returning students should login with their username and password used previously to update their information/forms).

The following are the directions to complete this registration:

·        Click on the following link to access the on-line registration:  https://my.usfirst.org/stims/Login.aspx

·        Create New Account (Returning users do not need to create a new account.  You should use your current login info.)

·        Login to Account

·        Complete Youth Information sections

·        Apply to your team.  You will need to know we are part of the First Robotics Competition (FRC) and are team #203.

·        Sign and submit FIRST Consent and Release Form – you are done!

·        You will receive a confirmation from the coach/mentor informing you about the acceptance status of your child on the team. If you do not get an email, please contact your coach/mentor.

Please complete this process by Wednesday, January 21.   Please contact Mr. DePrince with any questions.

Thank you,
Mr. Tony DePrince and Mr. Andy McAlpin, FIRST Advisors

 

LET’s GO  FIRST!!! GO ROCKY!  GO TEAM 203!!