Officers Present: Yusuke Sato, David Liu, Annie Yang, Karena Cai, Alric Siu, Chinmay Jaju, Haochuan Ni, Toshitaka Tachibana, Eric Jan, Manami Yokoyama, Yuya Bessho, Karthik Viswanathan, Steve Hatton, Brandon Liu
Advisors Present: Mr. G
Officers Absent:
Guests: Edward, Abhinav
The meeting was called to order at 7:02 pm.
Hey Everyone,
These are topics we discussed in this meeting:
- Old Business
- Officer Point System
- Voted on David’s point system
- Yes: 8
- No: 5
- Abstain: 3
- System has been passed
- Still open to feedback
- Feel free to comment
- Garage Setup
- Still need to mount a few things
- Also need to move some more things there
- Call another meeting to fix it up
- T-Shirts
- Finalized design last Tuesday
- Collect money for shirts
- No money, no shirt
- No buying based on credit
- 86 people want shirts and have paid
- Add some other people (Principal, Ms. Reller, etc.)
- Order 6 extras
- Pre-kickoff Meeting
- 13-14 people
- Good turn out
- Learned a lot about past robots
- Lots of repeated elements in the games
- Writing Meeting
- Friday 3PM-5PM
- Worked on awards and grants
- KICKOFF (1/9)
- Many people came (~40)
- Thought of some ideas for robot designs
- Software Installation Party
- A few people were interested
- Bump Meeting
- Lacked tools
- And parents
- Got things done though
- Need more PARENTS
- At the design meeting there are no parents
- We need to convince parents that they can help
- Calder Academy
- Karthik is working on their website
- Ask them how to help more
- Not doing that much now
- Photojournal
- 6 people are signed up
- Need to collect recent photos
- Don’t have any Concours or Fleetweek photos
- Will talk about ideas and decide if we should stick with Kodak
- Robot Storage
- Haochuan has a robot in his garage, and he can store another one
- Alric can send robot over
- Website
- Added in logo, in a very prominent place
- Sponsors placed in order of how much they donated
- Added competition manual
- Edited broken links
- Some pages have no content
- Is making sure no pages are blank
- Over 5 announcements won’t show up and in wrong order; created plug-in for that so now it’s fixed
- In ascending order
- Will continue progress
- Get rid of donation page
- Update script
- Send it to other schools who are coming to kick-off and parents
- Ask parents if they want to be a mentor (technical or not)
- Announce Kick-off on website
- Maybe put it in announcements too
- Winter Newsletter
- One article is not done yet but most are finished
- Need revision
- Calling Parents
- Some officers haven’t called yet
- All officers need to work and be examples
- Right now some people aren’t doing anything
- 5 points per call
- Roller System, Tower, and Trial Kicker
- Have to try out ideas
- Buttons
- Alric- research
- Yearbook Pictures
- We finally got a spot
- We signed up 5 minutes before the deadline so we almost didn’t get the spot
- San Diego
- Need to check airfare prices again (Chinmay’s mom is looking into that)
- Mariott’s cost over double the price of HJ
- Also no free breakfast and no free Internet-connection
- Should revote based on this new information
- Mariott: 4
- HJ: 7
- Abstain: 4
- Grants
- Cisco’s grant seems more aimed at low-income groups and college level teams
- David’s mom and Eric’s mom both work at Cisco so they try to figure out who we should talk to next
- Officer Point System
- New and Upcoming Business
- Build Season Log
- Near the end of the build season take pictures/notes of our progress
- Public or not?
- Good to have this as a record
- Don’t post too much info
- Too much info: design plans, special features
- Stage Making Meeting
- Leave at about 9
- Have one extra spot for a new member
- Some officers might have to step down
- Some parents might need to drive
- Jamaicans
- Coming to San Jose on Friday
- Tentatively 3PM-4PM
- Build Season Log
- Important Dates:
- Feb 18th- Chairman’s (DVD, essay), Website, Woodie Flowers Award
- Feb 23rd- Ship Day
- Mar 3rd- Regional, Entrepreneurship Award
The meeting was adjourned at 9:54 pm.
