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
- Meeting Info. Distribution
- 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
- Work Area
The meeting was adjourned at 8:07 pm.
