Steering Committee 2009-11-20
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Attendance: Clem, Faith, Jon, Gary, Foster
- Review of October Minutes
- No changes
- Finance Report
- ~$2000 in account, waiting for DASD checks
- Fund Raising
- Pancake Breakfast at Applebees in Exton - Sunday 6 December - 8AM seating and 9AM seating
- Need servers (+14 years old to serve)
- 300 ticket $7 adults $5 under 11 (we pay $1.50 per person)
- Tickets are out, Rita is still looking for people to sell tickets
- Foster put a request for sponsors in the last Vex newsletter
- Pancake Breakfast at Applebees in Exton - Sunday 6 December - 8AM seating and 9AM seating
- FRC Regional competition registration
- We are registered and paid for two events
- Finger Lakes Regional - Week 1 - 4-6 Mar 2010
- We will start looking for Hotels in the next 30 days
- Philadelphia Regional - Week 4 - 25-27 Mar 2010
- Finger Lakes Regional - Week 1 - 4-6 Mar 2010
- We are registered and paid for two events
- Recruiting Progress
- FRC
- Roboteer population 29, mentors=14
- VEX
- Roboteer population 42-48, mentors=6
- FLL
- FRC
- New Space & Mill Move
- We are waiting on the gate install and the wall to be completed. Faith to talk to Greg on Tuesday
- We need to get boxes and BX cable for the outlets on the new wall, we can install the boxes now and wire them later
- Shelving units are here for the Vex robots
- Clem will design shelves to stack the robot
- We need to do a housekeeping / inventory when we move into the second bay
- We can move the 2009 spares into the common inventory.
- Impact of STEM Academy
- STEM Academy wants to renovate the space. We will need to vacate the current space by June 2010
- We will open discussions with STEM Academy on where we will go and what our space will look like in 2011.
- We should offer to buy the power tools to reload the shop in 2011.
- We need to start working on Plan B in the event that DASD can not find space. This may need to require us to get additional funding
- Outreach to DCC or West Chester University
- Commercial space
- Opera house? Would work for competitions, shops for build, large stage area for construction
- Look at Venture Club via the Boy Scouts
- We are waiting on the gate install and the wall to be completed. Faith to talk to Greg on Tuesday
- Report on FRC Pivot Robot
- Status
- Programming doing well, there is a good white paper out there
- Because we used VEX there will be PID tuning to make the movement smooth
- Future goals
- Want to build one full pivot assembly ~$300
- Request for funds
- BOM done, Clem to start to order parts
- We will order a twist joystick for samples
- Status
- Outreach Efforts
- FRC demo on 4 November at Downingtown East
- Carly ran the event there were some interest from the teacher
- Girl Scouts at Ramp Riot
- Went well, we had 45 Scouts and 6 roboteers and four adults from the team. We did some polling of the last two groups, they said we were the best demos.
- We have the two robots for Bently - where do they go? How long will they be there?
- Plans & Upcoming Events
- December 6 - Abington
- Plan for March 13 VEX event -- need student coordinator
- Discussion about going to the Vex Event in Wesminster MD
- There is a benefit to going as a travel event
- VEX parents polled, as of the 20th only 3 roboteers showed interest
- Need to be set up to ask permission at the December School board meeting
- We will discuss this again in December Steering meeting
- FRC demo on 4 November at Downingtown East
Next Meeting
Next meeting is 18 December (Friday)