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Cleaning up the Lab

Today at the NASA lab, several students and mentors were working together to clean up the workspace and prepare for the build season. The computer workstations upstairs were put together after the painting. All of the wires were nicely ziptied and the process…

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Floor Painting Complete

Today the mezzanine floor was completely dry which allowed the tables and chairs to be moved back upstairs. A few students were present and helped set up the computers and get things ready for the upcoming FRC build season. The office supplies and mentors…

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254D High Hangs!

VEX Team 254D has been working hard since their last tournament to improve on their design as much as possible. After a lot of work, their robot successfully high hangs on the ladder for a whopping 20 points! All of the Team 254 VEX Teams are busy pulling…

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Lab Floor Painting & Cleaning

Today, more team members met at the NASA lab to apply a second coat of paint to the floor on the upstairs mezzanine. The newly painted surface looks great and we will move the furniture upstairs tomorrow once the paint dries. Furthermore, we mopped and…

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Lab Floor Painting

Today, several team members met at the NASA lab to paint the floor of the upstairs mezzanine. Two weeks ago, we sanded the floor to remove the chipping paint and last week new paint was able to be purchased. To prevent chipping, we are using a urethane-based…

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Scouting/Spirit 12/6 and 12/13

Hey team, First, I apologize that last weeks update didn't get put up. I wrote it, but for some reason it didn't post... So, last weekend (12/4 specifically), teams 254A, B, and D competed in the Pan Pacific tournament, and 254C, E, H, and S competed in…

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San Ramon Tournament Results

On December 11th, 254D and 254H traveled to San Ramon to represent Bellarmine at its fifth tournament of the season. After technical difficulties with the field and limited time, the teams played 3 qualification matches leaving 254D with a 1-2 record and 254H…

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Programming Update

We had a meeting on Thursday at Bellarmine, in which we covered a lot. By this week’s meeting, we will have finalized the programming team’s organization into the two groups, and everyone will have their assignments. We have split the team into two groups,…

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Archiving Update

For this week, no meeting was held. At the large team meeting I personally contacted everyone who has not turned in their assignment. In addition, I gave them the names again so that they can go back and check. Finally, someone on the archiving team agreed to…

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FRC Build Update

Friday the 10th marked our third and final CAD Friday and our final FRC Friday of the semester. We had a great time and started to explore some of the more advanced assembly and sketch features of SolidWorks. Although it would have been nice to have more time…

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