CASA MESA, US FIRST Robotics Team 2261

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Last official meeting at 5pm

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Today, we will talk about our strategy and finish our bumpers.

- our mentors will bring our shirts, and other supplemental material needed for the competition on Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

- the students will work on finishing the bumpers, planning out the team communication and other varoius techniques to keep our team stand out from others.

- The team strategy has to be decided or atleast talked about today.

- the roles of each memeber in the team will be given and their responsibilities.

atlast, our hardwork will be going towards good cause for our team and our community.

SI SE PUEDE!!!!!

shipping box

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Today juan ,alejandro and I worked on the shipping box for the robot. There where a few problems but nothing we couldn’t handle. the bottom has broken but we will have that fixed by the end of the day I hope. I have also talked with estaban and kathryn about what to call or awsome robot, so far we have come up with “transformer” “bumblebee” and “mario” still unsure on what to call it though

I see progress!

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

This morning it seemed like much had to be done. After many hours of worked, i came to realize that we were closer than i expected. I worked on getting the electrical done, setting up the kicker and building parts to strengthen the robots structure. We Finally got the robot moving, we tested the robot on the bumps plenty of times and we experimented on different ways to approach the bar on the structure, It was a successful try. Im feellin’ gud!

Finishing the website

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Today, I worked on finishing the website. The components that were suppose to be done today:

  1. all the students page with the translation.
  2. all the mentors page with the translation.
  3. the casa de la esperanza page
  4. ftc page
  5. photos page for slideshow
  6. robot page
  7. mesa page
  8. frc page
  9. blog
  10. all the translations for all the pages
  • They are done and or still in progress.

Things that still need attention:

  • formatting of all the pages
  • looking at the rubric and going over it.
  • checking to see if all the parents signed up so we can submit the page.

Thanks to Tania, we have been getting translations done. Thank you for your hard work and dedication Tania. All the other students and the mentors are working very hard to meet the deadlines that are approaching. At the team meeting today, we worked on choosing a team name, robot name, and the motto for our team. Every student wrote their ideas and later, they will be voted and that would result as our final names and mottos. This is what  happened as of right now.

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Today,

  • The builders worked on the bumpers and the robot, especially the hardware.
  • the programmers worked on the development of the software and the chassy.
  • the website creator worked on the different pages of the website and uploaded different pics to the students page, robots page, and the other pages.
  • All the mentors worked and helped the students in their own field of interest.
  • the shirts are in progress and the spirit team is working on the stuff that will enhance our team.

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Today i worked on translating the students page to put it in our  webpage i also worked in plugging in the wires for the robot.

(Español) armando el robot

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

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progress on saturday

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

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working on a robot

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

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Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Today, I helped Lyle with cutting the wood, helped with the programming code on the website. Feb 5, 2010 Alejandro M.