Steering Committee 2010-10-29
From DEW Robotics
- Minutes from prior meeting
- Approved
- Financial Reports
- FRC
- Donations from Paul S, Downingtown Foundation, ASME, Arkema (still need about $13K)
- VEX
- Sponsorship from QVC IT and QVC for the fall event. (sill need about 9K)
- FLL
- Donations from Arkema, registered 3 teams for November 6 for January (set for 2010, need reserves)
- Five laptops were donated
- Big box of parts were donated
- FRC
- Fund raisers
- Car Wash - very good
- Flapjack Fund raiser - successful about $300 more than last year
- Raffles - we will do this at the other events
- Moe Fund Raiser - Clem and Faith went to the Wine Tasting event
- Silent auction of donated baskets, trip and 10% of the wine proceeds.
- Grant Status
- Boeing - submitted, and a letter went out from our Boeing contract.
- SAP - Bob got the info from Faith today and will work on it
- Grants in the pipeline
- Will start working on the list of grants from Cat
- We need to be better at showing our success and sustainability need (metrics)
- Julie will take over chair of the grant committee, need a new member
- Media team report
- Storyboarding the Safety Video, well staffed with students
- Working on posters, 6 poster to be submitted for administration review
- Hanna is working on flyer's for VEX event
- FRC - Programming team report
- Laptops that can run Inventor and Labview (Julie / Clem will get software specs)
- Netbooks would work for Scouting
- Labview training, Ben has taken the lead in the classes (5 roboteers)
- Event Calendar
- Ramp Riot - 13 November
- FRC all set, there is a drive team
- VEX to do Girls in Gear program, need to leave Robotics Center at 7AM, back at 1PM.
- VEX Fall Classic presented by QVC - 20 November
- Event Staff
- Food Service
- Scott has a 30 cup maker
- PSU Winter Scrimmage - 4 December
- Practice Kickoff - 11 & 12 December
- Clem is working on the logistics
- Ramp Riot - 13 November
- Space
- Tour of the new building
- Other items
- Rigger will move the lathe and mill - they will use a pallet jack to get the mill out of the building - The rigger will do this for free
- Need to work on a lighting plan
- Gary will bring his truck for the move on Wednesday
- Gary will bring a refrigerator
- Need to run a Safety Session with the roboteers
- Key rack to be assembled
- Doing lessons learned about the pivot
- Clem has contact with an FLL group on 8th of November to see what they need
- Rita is going to work on an article for the Daily News
- They will work on the student portion of the fundraisers
- Need to start working on getting parents more involved
- Need to look at more fundraising (bang for the buck)
- We need to be First Aid Certified
- Sasha can set this up for the EMT Basic First Aide training
- Open house planning
- SWAT Robot
- Science Day in Philadelpia - 15 - 28 April
- Rizzo is working on Robotics day at Hershey Park - tickets $35 - April 19th due date
- Will pick a date in May
Next meeting is December 17, 2010