CASA MESA, US FIRST Robotics Team 2261

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a kick to the face

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Today, Feb 5,2010 I just came back from an engineering confrence at CU Denver,  and the first thing I saw at the first came in is the the kicker mech. that it is the first stages of  building of it so Iwandered what it dose. i asked Lyle what is it and told me its the kicker. I was impressed so i decided to load it and i stood in front of it and bang the ball flew to my jaw and i was downed. not bad for a 5 min. work out

Meeting (1.11.2010)

Monday, January 11th, 2010

This was on a Monday:

-We officially started with the team’s group and discussed:

  • Goals
  • team communication
  • distributes jobs within the team, who and what
  • deadlines
  • Websites, who, how and what
  • strategies for the game

This is what we did, and we have a calendar for the goals that are suppose to be met and followed for each week.

Kickoff

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

This was the second meeting where we went to register our team.

- We waited for the game to be announced for this year. We were there at 7, it was a long day. Then we attended some workshops including labview and hardware tutorials.

- We came back to our place, and did the inventory of the materials we received from the FIRST.

Then, we worked on our team design and the rules and and discussed them.