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Meeting Notes – Mar 8, 2010

Officers Present: David Liu, Toshitaka Tachibana, Yuya Bessho, Steve Hatton, Yusuke Sato, Karthik Viswanathan, Haochuan Ni, Brandon Liu, Karena Cai, Alric Siu

Advisors Present: Mr. G
Officers Absent: Manami Yokoyama, Eric Jan, Chinmay Jaju, Annie Yang

Guests:

The meeting was called to order at 7:09 pm.

Hey Everyone,

These are topics we discussed in this meeting:

  • Old Business
    • San Diego Regional
      • Won innovation award
      • Still a lot of work to do on robot to improve its performance
      • Need to gather pictures
    • Garage/Machine Shop schedule
      • David- make one
    • T-shirt distribution
      • Mr. Xie didn’t get a t-shirt
      • Abhinav- give him one
    • Haiti Fundraiser Progress
      • Chinmay- work on that
      • Other teams have motivation to pull together the money
      • Holy Cows get the community involved
      • Get Red Cross Club to publicize the fundraiser
      • Organize a team fundraiser
      • Earthquakes Around the World à more general
      • Collect pledges for Haiti by the weekend
      • Steve, Chinmay, Eric- collect the money
    • Winter Newsletter
      • Never got to print it or edit it because of build season
      • Haochuan- send out draft for revision and editing, add recent activities too
    • Posting Build Season Log/Notes
      • Annie already did that
      • It’s posted in the 2010 folder
    • Website Updates
      • Karthik- send out GoogleDoc with updates
    • Photo Journal
      • Canceling order and reordering 2 copies of photo journal
    • Chairman’s DVD and regional presentation
      • Meeting on Friday and Saturday
      • Other award(s): Entrepreneurship Award
    • Tech Museum Demo
      • Sunday 4/11
    • Other
      • Watch footage that Mr. Liu got
      • Burn that onto a hard drive to use for the Chairman’s Award
      • Did not bring team video camera from Sony though
      • Recover team hard drive ( Western Digital hard drive)
      • Send out a report about SD competition to Mrs. Broman
      • Make postcards for Payton and Fernando
  • New and Upcoming Business
    • SVR
      • Toshi’s mom is making food for lunch
      • Other parents willing to help
    • Buttons
      • We didn’t have any at Calgames or San Diego
      • Everyone wants buttons
    • Cords
      • Cords for graduation
      • $10 each
      • Defined by constitution
      • Who gets a cord?
      • Send e-mail
      • Feel overlooked à don’t get a cord
      • Get a list of cord candidates by Tuesday night
      • Due 3/19/2010 to Mr. Peck
    • Driving Practice
      • Wed, Thu 3-7 PM
      • Software guys à not many = software tuning
      • Driver learn stuff- pivot turn adjustments (driver and software group)
      • Contact Brian and assistance with moving robot
    • Food Day
      • All good food is already taken
      • Waste of time
    • Eligibility for Championships
      • Win regional
      • Financial record à low
      • Raise $6000 to go
      • $800- $1000
      • Discuss price with parents
      • Easier to distinguish from other robots


The meeting was adjourned at 8:15 pm.

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