WEEK ZERO!!!!!!!

Camden County Technical Schools and Campbell’s Soup Robotics TEAM #203 welcomes everyone to WEEK ZERO!!!!!!! 

Student team members, parents, guardians, alumni, and other supporters of TEAM #203:

Congratulations to you all!!!!  We have made it to Week ZERO!  Week Zero is the last week before Week #1 of the Competition Season….The competition season for FIRST internationally starts on Saturday, February 28 which is Week #1.  We begin to compete starting on Week #3!

Rocky the Robot 2015 is in the bag, literally!  This past Tuesday (STOP BUILD DAY!) several of our team members, volunteers and coaches made it in on a snow day and worked on the finishing touches for this year’s competition robot!  According to the rules, we have to place our robot in a bag and tag it on STOP BUILD DAY!   Through a lot of hard work and dedication of many, we met that hard deadline of getting Rocky in the bag by midnight this past Tuesday!  See the blog for photos.

Even though the official build season is over, we still have a lot of work to do to get ready for the competition season!  We have spare parts to make, drivers training with a prototype robot, and many other tasks to complete to get ready for the judged awards as well! 

Here is an update for this week:

Work Schedule this weekend 2/21 and 2/22

Saturday 2/21 9AM - ?

Students who have been asked to come in are to report only.  We will be having our drivers tryouts and training.  Other students will be working on our judged award submissions, safety program, and other projects.

Sunday 2/22  DAY OFF!!

This will be the first Sunday we have taken a day off since January 2!  Enjoy the day!!!!

Weekday Work Schedule

We will be still working everyday after school.  All students are encouraged and asked to attend.

Mandatory Parent / Student Meeting Monday 2/23 at 7:30PM

A letter was sent home to all families regarding a mandatory meeting this Monday at  7:30PM in the cafetorium in Building #4.  Please see attached the letter with details that was sent home for details.  We expect at least one parent/guardian along with the student team member to attend.  We are also asking for help to re-stock our water supply.  We would like each family to bring one case of bottled water with them to the meeting.  Important information will be shared at this meeting regarding competition details, parent booster issues, and other information.  We will also show everyone Rocky 2015!

Chairman’s Award

Congratulations to our student team members who worked so hard to submit our team for this major award.   Please check out our chairman’s award video on the blog which was only one part of the submission.

Shirt Orders

A large number of the team members still have not submitted their shirt orders.  We have attached the form to this e-mail.  All team members must have a shirt to be in uniform at the competitions!  Please bring this with you on Monday Night!!!  THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!  If you need to make a payment arrangement for the shirts, just contact Mr. DePrince.  Every student, as indicated in the original letter, gets one shirt for free.

Blog

We have some recent posts to the blog including pictures and video.  As a reminder, the blog address is http://cctsfirst.blogspot.com/. 

As always, please feel free to contact us with any questions!!!!

GO CCTS ROBOTICS!  GO TEAM #203!!  GO FIRST!!!

Mr. DePrince and Mr. McAlpin

FIRST Robotics Advisors / Coaches