Well we are on our way!!!! Tomorrow will be one week since we learned of this year’s FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION (FRC) challenge….. ULTIMATE ASCENT!
In just over 5 weeks we will need to have ROCKY THE ROBOT 2013 ready to accurately throw 11 inch Frisbees and climb an 8 foot tall pyramid.
My goal is to send weekly, if not more often, updates regarding the team to both parents and students.
WORK SCHEDULE
As stated before and at the family meeting, we meet everyday afterschool. We also are meeting Saturdays. On Saturday, January 12 we will be meeting at 12:00noon in the robotics room. We should be wrapping up around 5PM.
PARENT / FAMILY BOOSTERS
Parent Booster Chair Brenda e-mailed everyone regarding support for snacks on Saturdays. Please check her e-mail for more information and be sure to respond to her. Brenda’s e-mail is cctsfirst.boosters@gmail.com.
Also, if any parent wants to volunteer let me know, and we can certainly use the help.
FUND RAISING
Please be sure to let me know if you have any leads for potential funding opportunities or team sponsorships. We are always looking for creative ways to keep our program going.
ONLINE RESOURCES
We will be maintaining a blog with these updates, pics, and more for our team. Check out our blog at http://cctsfirst.blogspot.com/. We will be developing the new team website in the near future, which will include this blog and more. Stay tuned for more information.
Also, you can read about FIRST Robotics, the competition, and more at FIRST’s website at www.usfirst.org. This is a valuable resource. Also, checkout www.chiefdelphi.com which is a great forum and discussion board for everything FIRST robotics.
PROGRESS UPDATE
This week we established our project management team and appointed students Frank F. as senior project manager and Jeff S. as junior project manager. We also established our team structure for this year and working groups as follows:
2013 FIRST TEAM
Working Group Team Assignments
TEAM ADMINISTRATION
Mr. Anthony DePrince, Team Advisor / Mentor (Administration / Operations)
Mr. Andrew McAlpin, Team Advisor / Mentor (Mechanical)
Mr. Otto Ritter, Instructor / Mentor (Project Management)
Ms. Sandy Castagna, Chaperone/Mentor
Frank F., Senior Student Project Engineer / Team Captain
Jeff S., Junior Student Project Engineer / Team Captain
WORKING SUB-GROUP ASSIGNMENTS
Programming / Controls
RJ P., LEAD
Andrew S.
David G.
M
Ryan R.
Jonathan B.
Cullen B.
Tyler H.
Construction / Building
Jakob M. LEAD
Carmen S., LEAD
Adam H.
Tony K.
Adam H
Sean S.
Alex C.
Brian M.
Colin Y.
Graphics / Imaging
Sarah H., LEAD
Anika W.
Ian H.
Susie T.
Brianna J.
Safety
Jackie K., LEAD
Isiah, M., LEAD
Del H.
Arthur S.
Matthew G.
Business / Planning / Fundraising
Colin Y., LEAD
Victor F., LEAD
Britany D.
Domininique N.
Michael T.
Spirit
Tony K., LEAD
Andrew S., LEAD
Jakob M.
CAD / Inventor / Design
David G., LEAD
Blair F., LEAD
Aaron S
Kordell M.
Anthony S.
Website/ Video / Photo / Blog
Robert P., LEAD
Alfonso B.
Anika W.
Briana J.
Susie T.
Research / Scouting
Yazmin R., LEAD
Matt K., LEAD
Blair F.
Robert P.
Khalil B.
In addition, the team has been focusing on strategy development for this year’s competition as well starting to build a prototype Frisbee launcher. Also, our build team is starting to build the field elements that we need to test and practice on. Our programming team is in the process of testing various software configurations on our test chassis. The safety team leads conducted a safety seminar this week, and all of the other working groups are working hard to meet their individual tasks….
We have a nice, hard working group of students this year… We are very excited about our potential. Students keep up the hard work and dedication. Parents thank you for your support!!!
GO ROCKY!!! GO FIRST!!! GO CCTS ROBOTICS!!!!
Tony DePrince, FIRST ADVISOR
