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Chairman'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 weeks.

In 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 Fairfield and San Ramon:

254B has been trying to perfect an intake that surrounds rings, for easy scoring and descoring;

254C has recently moved on from perfecting their multi-directional drive base to an intake that involves grabbing the rings from the center;

254D has improved their four-bar linkage to accommodate their intake that manipulates the middle of the rings;

254E has been making subtle changes to their tournament-winning robot so they may descore even more easily than at the Tracy regional;

254H, after completing their drive base, has been working on a shifting mechanism to power their arm from their drive motors in an attempt to hang;

and 254S has taken the speedy approach with one of the fastest drive bases Vex has seen and an intake that has stirred debate through the team, which spurs new intake ideology.

For 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 first workshop, the archiving team began working on the graduates from 2009 and 2010.

On Friday, numerous Cheesy Poofs met for our second week of the 2010 FRC workshops.  We had a huge turnout of people from 254 and 1868.  All three workshops went great.

Next Friday will mark the start of our 3-week long CAD Seminar, where we will be working in groups to learn CAD skills while working on a super awesome project (to be announced) =D.

Also, we’re starting to organize machine tools training.  Be sure to fill out the form on the event signups page if you’re interested.  More details will come ASAP.

-Nick

Last week we worked on coordinating the script and storyboard.

We have started working on the first scenes of the animation and most of the models are finished.

Last week, October 26th was our first VEX Programming Session. If anyone hasn't had the chance to write a sample program or to look at sample code, please do that so that we can move on in the sessions!

If you haven't downloaded the trial for Robot C, follow the link and start programming:

http://www.robotc.net/download/vex/

If you have any questions, please email Zahi Hakim at [email protected] or Bhargava Manja at [email protected].

Teams 254 A and 254 E are ready to take on the Tracy regional. 254 D is another potential Cheesy Poof team that would want to attend, but is awaiting confirmation from the Tracy director for an extra slot.  254 B, C, H, and S have opted out of the regional in order to get extra time to perfect their ideas before heading into a regional ill-advised.

254 A deploys a "sketchy" at best hanging mechanism accompanied by a claw that has the ability to score and descore.

254 E has avoided the infamous ladder for the time being to focus on their double sided robot.  One side carries a simple spatula to descore while the opposite side of 254 E shows a rolling intake for scoring.

Both robots are tournament ready. There is a scheduled "pack-up hour" for Thursday after school in the Physic's Lab to collect items such as tools and build material the teams may need for the regional.