Clean Sweep Newsletter 18 November

VEX Parent Update – 11/18/09 We have a number of VEX items coming up! Contact Foster at Schucker dot org if you have any questions!

We had a great time on Saturday playing a series of games with Girl Scouts from Montgomery County that were partipating in the Girls In Gear program. Thanks to everyone that helped out!

Wednesday 11/18/09 T-Shirt night. We need to collect everyone's T-Shirt size. Choices are Youth Large, Adult small, medium, large and X-large. Due to the large number of students they will need to pay for their shirts. Price will be about $11 per shirt. Shirts are blue with yellow sleeves. (The reverse of what the FRC team wears).

Saturday December 5 is our first scrimmage at Penn State Abington from 9 AM – 4PM. We will leave from DEC at 7AM to be at the event by 8AM to help set up. This will be the first chance our teams have to drive against other schools. We will need parents to go and help out some easy things like getting the field reset between matches, etc.

We need help transporting the field, floor, robots and roboteers to the site. If you can drive it would be a big help.

This event is sponsored by Penn State and there is FREE pizza and soda for lunch.

We will return about 5 PM.

Sunday December 6 there is an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast 8AM-10AM fundraiser at Applebee's in Exton. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children. This is a HUGE fund raising opportunity for the robot team! Faith McKown and Rita Wall have tickets, please help out selling tickets to friends and extended family. You can pick tickets up any of the times the robot team meets. There are only 300 tickets so act fast!

Overnight VEX Event We have an opportunity to go to a two day VEX event in Westminster MD February 26 and 27th. Westminster is about 2 hours away so you can either stay over night, or drive back and forth. This is the largest event on the East coast with over 100 teams participating. Most of our other events only have 20-26 teams. We would drive down early (6AM) on Friday morning and leave there about 5PM on Saturday.

The robot teams Mentors (Foster, Dan, Bob, Kelly, etc.) will NOT be responsible for watching your roboteer outside of the event. This means that you will need to come or make arrangements with another parent. Hotels in the area are about $115 a night and you will need to also plan for meals.

There is a considerable amount of work that Foster needs to do with the school district, so its important that if you are interested you let him know. We will try to work this out as a school field trip so the Friday will be an excused absence.

Information about the event can be found here: [[1]]

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