FIRST Robotics - Team 2511 - team2511

Pay attention FIRST team! The bus will be leaving from in front of the high school at 7:30 in the morning on next Thursday, March 31st! We will be back at 7:00 in the evening. If you haven't already picked up your t-shirt come and get it today!  Same drill on Friday (April 1st) and Saturday (April 2nd) - the bus will be leaving at 7:30 am and returning at 7:00 pm.  We won't be waiting around for straglers!

Team Leaders, here's a reminder from Peter Grul about their ongoing LabVIEW seminars.

Regards, Mark Lawrence

Chairman, MN FIRST Planning Committee

FRC LabVIEW Seminar Reminder

Time/Date:

Thursday, 10 Feb, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Location:

Washburn High School (Room 134)

201 W 49th St

Minneapolis, MN 55419

Park anywhere in the 50th Street side parking lot (staff, visitor...it doesn't matter after hours) and enter by door 8. Room 134 will be the first door on your left.

Topics:

Jed, Bob and Craig from NI will return. Session 2 will be a troubleshooting session. They requested that you send them a few questions in preparation. Questions can

be sent to millerbots@gmail.com, and will be passed along to them. Also Washburn will provide a testbed, so feel free to bring along components for troubleshooting.

RSVP to millerbots@gmail.com, thanks!

sincerely,

Peter Grul

Coach/Mentor Team 2549

1) There are new scholarship opportunities for seniors at the U of MN and Itasca Community College. Please see the regional website for details (http://www.mnfirstregional.org/news/01212011).

2) The U of MN will be offering laboratory tours on March 31st during the Minneapolis regionals. There will be more details as we get closer to the event.

3) The U of MN is setting up the opportunity for seniors to shadow a college student on March 31st or April 1st. For more details or to sign up, please contact Erin Lemke at lemkel116@umn.edu

4) We still need mentors to help out with robot inspections at the 10,000 Lakes Regional. This is mostly a Thursday activity. If one of your mentors would like to help, please contact Laurie Shimizu (lfshimizu@gmail.com)

5) Itasca Community College and Simley, Eagan, and Chaska high schools are going to host a pre-ship scrimmages on Feb 19th. Practice events will be held Simley and Chaska high schools and ICC. Ill be forwarding sign up information shortly.

6) Ive heard that order fulfillment for BaneBots products is 5-10 business days so plan accordingly.

7) Washburn is once again hosting LabVIEW Seminars. They were over capacity (~35 computers, 45+ chairs) last time, and request that teams limit their attendance to 1-3 people:

Time/Dates:

Tuesday, 1 Feb, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Thursday, 10 Feb, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Location:

Washburn High School (Room 134)

201 W 49th St

Minneapolis, MN 55419

Park on the 50th Street side and enter by door 8. Room 134 will be the first door on your left.

Topics:

Jed, Bob and Craig from NI will return. The first session will focus on this year's competition, modules, code and a bit of Q and A, while session 2 will be a troubleshooting session. They requested that you send them a few questions in preparation. Questions can be sent to millerbots@gmail.com, and will be passed along to them.

Hello Everyone,

We picked up the kit of parts (KOP) at the University of Minnesota Saturday morning. A link to an animation describing the challenge is posted to the team web site at http://team2511.shutterfly.com/ if you wish to see it.

We have six weeks to design and fabricate our robot. The first two weeks are all we dare spend on concept design as we will need to start cutting metal in order to have a month to fabricate, program, test and problem solve before the ship date. Some design and redesign work will continue during the build session but once we start cutting frame and drive train materials it becomes very difficult to start over within the time constraints we must deal with. We need concrete design assistance up front and professional assistance is certainly the best way to go. If your parents wish to get involved and help with the design process now is the time! Give them my email address: sjullrich@isd194.k12.mn.us and ask them to contact me...

I have a Department Chair meeting right after school (2:45) so I won't be back in the classroom (C103)until 4:00 or so. How long we stay depends on whether we are expecting anyone to show up to help us. We'll be here pretty much every afternoon from here on out until roughly 5:30. Weekend build sessions will be announced via email and posted to the calendar on the team's web site.

Mr. U