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Senior Mentor Report February 16, 2010 http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/ Driver Station and LabVIEW updates: FRC LabVIEW Update 2.1 for 2010 http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/lang Senior Mentor Report /en/id/1534 This also updates the cRIO February 16, 2010 image. Hi Everyone, Driver Station Update 1.1 for 2010 “ The finish line is in sight.” “There is a http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/lang light at the end of the tunnel.” If you are at /en/id/1535 Install this update on your the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang classmate. on.” Enough said. Fixed and Known Issues updates here: I have enjoyed talking with many of you http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearc during the build season and hearing your h/487FB316344500E6862576C8004CC3 triumphs and all that your students have 2D?OpenDocument learned during this build season. We have a pre-ship scrimmage here in the Los Angeles area at Harvey Mudd on Sunday. There will be additional Harvey Mudd College information posted later in this newsletter. FIRST Scrimmage We also send best wishes to the teams in Hawaii who are hosting their first off- The FIRST Mentors Club of Harvey season event for their local schools. Mudd College will be hosting the inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition Have a great week! Pre-ship Scrimmage. Teams will play the -Nancy Mc Breakaway game with official rules. Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010 Update from Manchester Cost: $200 per team Robot Ship Date: Schedule: 8 AM Pits Open 9 AM – 12 PM After an in depth exploration of the Practice Matches options and careful consideration of the 12 PM – 12:30 PM Lunch potential impact, the Director of FRC Break with the advice of the GDC decided that 12:30 PM – 3 PM although Robot Ship Day must remain Practice Matches February 23rd this year, all FRC teams 3 PM – 4 PM will be allowed to hold back up to 65 Possible Tournament pounds of their robot’s weight and may 4 PM Pits continue to work on that portion of the Close robot up until their first event. For more details see Bill’s Blog. Location: Linde Activities Center Gym Harvey Mudd College California Regional Robotics Forum’s 340 E. Foothill Blvd annual Pre‐Ship Scrimmage. It's a great Claremont, CA 91711 chance to test your robots, give your drivers practice, meet other teams, and Directions: get help with any problems you might be http://www.hmc.edu/about/visitingcam having with your robot prior to the robot pus/mapsanddirections.html ship date. Quick Overview Dates: Sunday, February 21, 2010 Times: 8:00 Meal Options: AM – 4:00 PM Venue: Harvey Mudd Bag Lunches provided by Hoch- College, Linde Activities Center Address: Shanahan dining hall are $8.50 each 340 E. Foothill Blvd. City: and include a meat/vegetarian Claremont State: California Country: sandwich, chips, apple, bottled water, United States Zip/Postal Code: and two cookies. These must be 91711 Registration opens: preordered by sending an email to Now Registration Deadline: February 19, [email protected] with the number of 2010 Capacity: 24 Contact meat and vegetarian lunches desired by Information Chris Husmann (310) 749‐ Feb 18th. Payment must be made when checking in for the event. Other options 7265, [email protected] or include the dining hall on campus (open [email protected] for a buffet style brunch from 10:30 AM <mailto:[email protected]> to 12:45 PM - $10.50 per person) or Other Information Please park along various fast food and restaurants E. Foothill Blvd. Robot loading zone at N. nearby. Mills Ave and E. Foothill Blvd. Campus Tours will be available. Food will be To Register: available at the campus dining hall for Register on RobotEvents.com $7.00 per person. Payment can be (http://robotevents.com/robot- made by credit card at the end of the competitions/first/scrrf-pre-ship- online registration or by check at the scrimmage-2010.html) registration table at the event. Checks should be payable to SCRRF. For additional information, see Good Luck Teams! http://larobotics.org/Scrimmage2010.ht ml. Schedule/Agenda 8:00 AM – Additional Information from SCRRF for 4:00 PM the same event: SCRRF Pre­Ship Scrimmage A Raytheon Request 2010 Registration: $200 Pricing Information Scholarships available We have many local Raytheon Teams out based on need. If lack of funds is the only there that would love the opportunity to say reason your team cannot attend, please thanks and demonstrate the impact of this contact us and we will work something program on their schools. out. Five robotics teams are needed to bring their Event Description Southern California robots and five students on February 17th. FIRST Robotics Competition teams are We will be having engineer games and a welcome to attend the Southern robotics demo. I would like five working FRC robots and if your team also does FTC or VEX, I would also Thank you and have a great day! like to demonstrate these robots as well. The schedule is as follows: Wed 2/17 - Engineer Games & Lab Best, Tour 11:00 am to 3:00 pm Stephanie - Robotics Demo 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Plan on arriving at 10:30am so you can be checked in and eat lunch. stephanie bondoc sales manager the westin long beach Please get back to me if you are interested, hotel 333 east ocean blvd. long beach, ca 90802 Ric Roberts Sr. Manager, tel 562.499.2013 fax Space and Airborne Systems 562.901.3432 Systems Development Center elevate your senses > westin.com Raytheon Company Office: (310)616-1356 Mobile: (310)658-9553 PS - I will also need two teams do demonstrate robots on Bring Your Kids to Work Day, April 2010 FIRST Awards 22nd, The Award Submission section of the This will be from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Student Team Members website https://my.usfirst.org/frc/goteams/site.lasso is now live. Teams have until 11:59pm ET The Westin In Long Beach Has on Thursday, February 18, 2010 to submit Rooms for Teams, Who Would Like applications for the 2010 Chairman’s Award, to Stay near the Convention Center Woodie Flowers Award and Website Award. Detailed submission instructions can be found here: I would like to confirm that we have http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/Comm availability to accommodate the general unity/FRC/FRC_Documents_and_Updates/A block of the First Robotics Competition wards%20Submission%20instructions.pdf on March 25-27, 2010. Our team would be delighted to welcome your group and we will make sure that everyone will have a memorable stay with us. We would like to offer a discounted FIRST Scholarships rate of $119 and we will set-up a courtesy hold for your group. The Did you know that there are a number of discounted rate will be subject to scholarships that are available to the availability. juniors on your team? Please do not hesitate to let me know 2010 FIRST Scholarships at if you questions or if there is anything www.usfirst.org/scholarships further I can assist you with. I look forward to hearing back from you soon. ATTENTION TEAMS year of college study in the field of math, science or technology. Are you tired of practicing and tuning your The award is non-renewable and will be robot on a small patch of carpet at the recognized at the Los Angeles Regional Regional? Would you prefer to practice on a full FIRST Robotics Competition sized field with all structures? This can happen and FIRST World Festival in Atlanta. but your help is needed. Student Eligibility Requirements: · High school senior SCRRF is building a full‐ scale field for the · Actively participates on a Southern Pre‐Ship Scrimmage on 2/21. This field will be California robotics team available for use at the Regional, and there is o FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team enough space in the venue BUT we need people or to volunteer to pick it up from storage, drive it o FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) team or down to Long Beach, assemble it, supervise it o VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) team during the competition, disassemble it, pack it · Participated or scheduled to participate back into the truck and deliver it back to with robotics team in one or more Southern storage. Most of the people who normally do California qualifying regional events in Los this will be busy building and running the Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis official field, which is unusually complex this Obispo, Kern, San Bernardino or Orange year. counties. Set‐up of the practice field can happen Submission Requirements: either Wednesday afternoon, or evening or · Students write a 500 word essay titled Thursday morning (at the expense of some “The Impact of FRC/FTC/VRC on my Future practice time) and tear down would be around Goals.” A copy of their high school transcript. Noon on Saturday. Loading the truck and · Letter of recommendation from one of the putting everything back in storage are up for · adult members of their robotics team stating negotiation. that the applicant has demonstrated the We need one person who will take on the values of FIRST/VRC and is a member in responsibility to lead this effort, and 6‐8 people good standing. to help every time the field moves. These do · All materials need to be delivered or post not need to be the same people each time. marked by February 25, 2010 to: LeRoy Nelson, Chairman E-mail: Pease contact Chris Husmann at 310 749‐ [email protected] 7265 if you can help.
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