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15
Jun 10
Officers Present: Haochuan Ni, Alric Siu, Annie Yang, Karthik Viswanathan, Chinmay Jaju, Iris Wang, Reo Sato, Brian Axelrod
Advisors Present: Mr. G
Officers Absent: Aditya Majumdar, Alexander Lin, MG Chi, Karena Cai
Guests:
The meeting was called to order at 10:03 pm.
Hey Everyone,
These are topics we discussed in this meeting:
- Old Business
- Website
- Need to work on officer profiles
- Get rid of the first name last names on the contact list
- Get rid of the bullet points
- Need more people to review the website
- Update news- BBQ
- Team Handbook
- How to make it more accessible?
- Alric- start it
- Find ways to share it
- Sony Product Donation
- Research products some more
- Chinmay- send out email with past examples
- Offer Practice Robot to Fremont HS for Calgames
- Karthik gave Alric the contacts
- Alric- send the email today
- Need to give them some parts as well
- WD Visit Thank You
- Chinmay- send a thank you to WD
- Make it personal- no need to write “on behalf of…”
- Grants
- Need to finish the Applied Materials grant
- Number 3 and 4 need other work
- The rest have all been rewritten
- Have a grant meeting after this meeting
- Botball
- We currently plan to resume botball this Thursday
- List of people who plan to go: Chinmay (has a ride), Haochuan, Brian, Iris, Alric (has a ride), Karthik, Karena
- Leave 9:30, get there at 10:00
- Will probably leave at 5PM
- Brian (1) and Haochuan (2) will lead this
- Botball papers are due tomorrow
- Need to fix them
- What needs to be done:
- Brian- send out email to incoming members, within an hour of the termination of this meeting
- Mr. G- give Brian the parent’s email
- BBQ
- Went nicely
- Got thank you’s from all the teams
- Needs to be posted on our website
- Chinmay - take care of that
- Alric and Chinmay- email out the cost of food
- CalGames Hosting
- Kick-off meeting this Saturday
- Need parent help
- Need signs to tell people where to go
- Alric- make maps
- Ask parents to call other parents?
- Need to write scripts/basic outline of what to say
- New and Upcoming Business
- WordPress Demo
- So anyone who wants to post news/announcements can
- Cleaning up Robot
- Team Posters
- Need to get pictures from the other teams
- Alric- call about that
- Files and photos to HD
- Ask all seniors for any photos they have
- Community Center Demos (25th June)
- Could also demo on any Friday in July
- Demo the robot to kids (5-10 year olds)
- Demo at on community center then drive over to another one
- Not a big demo
- Only need like 3 people
- Counts towards community outreach
- Limited time for botball though- might not have enough time for this demo
- Robot Improvement
- Hold a meeting to work on improvements for the robot?
- Things to think about: power take-off, camera/mirror, dashboard, split roller
- The one that seems most useful is the dashboard
- The split roller is worth looking into as well
- Might interfere with the kicker though
- Perhaps look into a sensor that measures how fast the roller is moving
The meeting was adjourned at 1:25 pm.
News — Add Comment
13
Jun 10
Hi Team,
We, the Funky Monkeys from Lynbrook, and the Quixilvers from Leland gave a joint robot demonstration at the Western Digital company grounds in their annual Engineer Day to express our gratitude for the company’s generous sponsorship. It was a great event; crowds of people, engineers and heads of the company, were fascinated by our sophisticated machines that were largely made in 6 weeks. The audience were excited to see the robots kicking soccer balls, driving over the 13 inch bump, and extending the lift. Our members engaged in active conversations with the company employees, and they displayed enthusiastic interest at our robots’ abilities and team accomplishments.
Our team and Leland’s team were invited on the front stage (pictured below) where both teams presented gifts to the company CEO, John F. Coyne. It was a great demo, and we hope to continue our relationship with Western Digital in the future.
- Haochuan
Announcements — Add Comment
12
Jun 10
Hi everyone,
The following are the list of upcoming activities in chronological order. If you are interested in any of these events, click on the event link and log into your account in our website’s Member’s Area (lynbrookrobotics.com/members) to view the details and description of the event and sign up.
Friday, June 11
Saturday, June 12
Members who are interested in team activities are required to use the Member’s Area. If you have any questions or concerns regarding Member’s Area, such as logging in, contact Karthik Viswanathan (karthik.ksvnull@gmail.com).
Announcements — Add Comment
02
Jun 10
Hi everyone,
The following are the list of upcoming activities in chronological order. If you are interested in any of these events, click on the event link and log into your account in our website’s Member’s Area (lynbrookrobotics.com/members) to view the details and sign up (like we showed you at the meeting today).
ALL of the team’s activities will be posted in the Member’s Area, and any members who are interested any team activity must sign up in that activity’s page of the Member’s Area, the URL of which would be provided below. The events below are also viewable on the “View Events” (http://lynbrookrobotics.com/members/view-events) page of the Member’s Area.
Thursday, May 27:
Friday, May 28:
Wednesday, June 2:
Saturday, June 12:
Sunday, July 6
Members who are interested in team activities are required to use the Member’s Area. If you have any questions or concerns regarding Member’s Area, such as logging in, contact Karthik Viswanathan (karthik.ksvnull@gmail.com).
Meeting Minutes — Add Comment
02
Jun 10
Officers Present: Toshitaka Tachibana, Haochuan Ni, Alric Siu, Annie Yang, Karthik Viswanathan, Chinmay Jaju, Karena Cai, Yusuke Sato, David Liu
Elect-Officers Present: Aditya Majumdar, MG Chi, Iris Wang, Reo Sato, Brian Axelrod
Advisors Present: Mr. G
Officers Absent: Steve Hatton, Brandon Liu, Eric Jan, Manami Yokoyama, Yuya Bessho
Elect-Officers Absent: Alexander Lin
Guests: Mr. Xie
The meeting was called to order at 7:07 pm.
Hey Everyone,
These are topics we discussed in this meeting:
- Old Business
- Meeting Info. Distribution
- One announcement per week
- Done on Wednesday
- Send through email and post on website
- All events will have a page in the member area of the website
- Website
- Karthik and MG discussed the website through email
- Karthik set up back ups already
- Everything else is in the process of being completed
- Team Guidebook
- David hasn’t worked on it in a while
- Deadline: Sunday
- Send email to past officers for feedback
- Sony Product Donation
- HD video Camera- can hold ~13 hr of footage
- 12x optical zoom
- Cost $800-$900
- Vote:
- Still camera: 0
- HD video camera: a lot
- Computer: 2
- Projector: 1
- Final: HD video Camera
- Request this with the Sony grant
- Offer Practice Robot to Fremont HS for Calgames
- Alric- send an email to Fremont about this and ask them if they’d like to use our practice robot
- WD Visit
- Aditya has a list of people who have signed up
- Will send it out again
- He will be coordinating rides and materials transportation
- Karena- ask her friend if he/she could transport the tower
- Iris- get the gifts sorted out by Friday
- Give a framed picture as a gift
- Grants
- Still have many grants we need to apply to
- Karena and Mr. G won’t be able to make the Thursday meeting
- Unless another officer is willing to step in, it will be canceled
- The meeting will be canceled
- Will meet next Tuesday night
- Finished thank you reports today, will be sending them soon
- Botball
- Canceled for June 4 or June 11
- Robocode
- On Wednesdays
- Same small group of people went
- If they are interested in this will continue next year
- RC Cars
- No time because of finals
- Canceled June 7 meeting
- BBQ
- Prospect and Monta Vista have already replied saying they want to come
- Homestead has not given a definite answer yet
- Need to start sending sign up lists
- Announce at tomorrow’s meeting and tell them to sign up on the website
- Prospect and Monta Vista have also offered to help with food
- BBQ’s usually cost ~$200
- Ask them if they’d like to help pay
- If now, that’s fine
- New and Upcoming Business
- Work Area
- Talked to Abhinav’s parents- pretty laid back about it
- Still need to start clearing things up
- As for dismantling the robots, perhaps that could be a transition activity at the new garage
- Display/store robots at Westgate w/ Prospect
- Meet June 2, 7 pm
- Place: Rick’s 1426 Vallejo Dr. San Jose CA 95130
- Will set up a static robot display?
- CalGames Hosting
- Officially submitted the bid
- Found out we could earn quite a bit of money through concession stands (~$11,000)
- Sell prepackaged food instead of grilled food
- Science club and WISTEM said they could provide people
- Monta Vista says they can help too; they can take over all the concessions
The meeting was adjourned at 8:07 pm.
