Officers Present: David Liu, Annie Yang, Karena Cai, Chinmay Jaju, Toshitaka Tachibana, Yuya Bessho, Steve Hatton, Yusuke Sato, Karthik Viswanathan
Advisors Present: Mr. G
Officers Absent: Haochuan Ni, Manami Yokoyama, Eric Jan, Brandon Liu, Alric Siu
Guests: Abhinav
The meeting was called to order at 7:12 pm.
Hey Everyone,
These are topics we discussed in this meeting:
- Old Business
- Writing Meeting
- Friday 3PM at Toshi’s house
- Mostly done with the rough draft
- May work on the DVD too
- And grants
- Design Meeting
- No more design meetings
- Mr. Xie won’t be here anymore- going on a trip
- Photojournal
- Two people came
- Maybe start writing entries on website and sending out email reports about the completed meetings
- So everyone can know what’s going on
- No good team pictures
- Sticking with Kodak- most trusted
- Chairman’s Award DVD
- Chinmay’s idea- a Verizon-like map with pins
- May be talking to much about Botball
- Need to work on the DVD
- Can have a slideshow during the speech
- Need a really good speech though
- Crate Project
- Need to fix the roof, add a few screws
- Get more eyebolts
- If get other members to help, maybe there could be a double meeting with the kicker
- Haiti Fundraiser
- Only restriction is no transfer payments
- But should take a look at the rules first so we don’t appear “stupid” when we propose the idea
- Thursday brunch ask Ms. Reller for the rules
- Practice Room
- Email Ms. Davidson
- Put the announcement in staff LHS Connect- email to teachers
- Chinmay, David, Toshi- Friday Brunch ask about the practice rooms
- T-Shirt
- Fernando paid for a T-shirt, his shirt was supposed to be free
- Need to give him back his money
- David- talk to office about the T-shirt
- Yearbook Pictures
- Wednesday
- After the meeting we’ll all walk over to the Cove together
- Wear team shirt or black/dark blue
- Send reminder tonight
- Abhinav- bring banner
- Toshi- bring mascot
- San Diego
- 25 people signed up and paid
- Thursday last day to pay
- Team Roster
- Need to update it
- Separate paid and unpaid
- Yusuke has list of paid members
- Website
- There are things you can only do if you are an admin
- Karthik- send out instructions
- Need some of the award buttons (they aren’t on the FIRST website anymore)
- Asking Edward for them but he hasn’t replied yet
- Kicker Prototype
- So far can kick 16 feet
- Tweaking the mass and adding springs might help
- Chinmay- work on the kicker
- Try to get some new members to go too
- Announce at the lunch meeting
- Writing Meeting
- New and Upcoming Business
- Special Meeting Minute Page for Build Season Log
- Need a password per post
- Change it so that it just needs a password to access the page with the log on it
- Next Software meeting
- Tomorrow
- Announce to tonight through email
- Bumper
- Research fabrics and ways to make color stay on it
- Annie- do that
- Special Meeting Minute Page for 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 8:18 pm.
