News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Chairman's We have finished writing the prompts. Our efforts now are focussed on the Main Essay that we will be submitting as part of the application. We are also working on the story board for the movie portion of the submission. If anyone has a video camera…
Read postToday was Team 254's first of three CAD Fridays. After a fun team lunch, we had over twenty team members come together at the NASA lab to learn CAD skills. We started out with an introduction to SolidWorks and went into some of the skills used in basic…
Read postAfter a strong few months of programming, the Zero Robotics team draws the season to an end. At the last competition, which took place at MIT on Friday the 12th, BCP Zero Robotics placed 3rd out of 8 teams in our bracket, but placed 11th out of the entire 24…
Read postJohnathan Chang worked on the opening scene of the Saftey Animation. Ryan Barekat finished the textures used on the main character's model. Erik Anderson is composing the score for the animation.
Read postFor the week of November 8 to November 14 the submissions for archiving were submitted to me. About half the team has responded with their info, and the other half has not contacted me. I will talk to everyone on the team this week and I will shuffle…
Read postThis September, we got a team of programmers together and applied to participate in an MIT and NASA sponsored competition called Zero Robotics. After a very difficult application process, we got accepted among 24 other teams out of over 100! Using an online…
Read postCatapults Today, at the NASA Lab, we had a large group of students meeting for FRC Friday. This week, to apply some of the tools usage and mechanical skills that were learned in previous workshops, we split into two mini-teams and had a catapult-building…
Read postChairman's Award We are writing prompts at a rate of one per week. We will be done with all the written portion by the end of December if we continue at this rate. We are starting an outline for the video and a story board will be completed in the next few…
Read postIn light of their upcoming All-Stars tournament in Orlando, 254A has remodeled their robot, moving away from trying to hang, towards becoming a good scoring and descoring robot. 254B, C, D, E, H, and S are all getting ready for their upcoming tournaments at…
Read postFor the week of November 1 to November 7, archiving had its first meeting. The meeting Thursday after school had 7 students who showed interest in helping in archiving. I recieved the 2009 and 2010 rosters from Mr. Janke, so on Friday in the lab after the…
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