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Meeting Notes – June 15, 2010

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
      • At 10:00 tomorrow
    • 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.

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