Steering Committee 2009-11-20

1. Review of October Minutes

1. Finance Report
2. Fund Raising
   1. Pancake Breakfast at Applebees in Exton - Sunday 6 December - 8AM seating and 9AM seating
      1. Need servers (+14 years old to serve)
      2. 300 ticket $7 adults $5 under 11 (we pay $1.50 per person)
3. FRC Regional competition registration
   1. We are registered and paid for two event
      1. Finger Lakes Regional - Week 1 - 4-6 Mar 2010
      2. Philadelphia Regional - Week 4 - 25-27 Mar 2010
4. Recruiting Progress
   1. FRC
   2. VEX
   3. FLL
5. New Space & Mill Move
   1. We are waiting on the gate install
      1. 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
   2. Shelving units are here for the Vex robots
6. Report on FRC Pivot Robot
   1. Status
   2. Future goals
   3. Request for funds
7. Outreach Efforts
   1. FRC demo on 4 November at Downingtown East
      1. We need a robot that will work to demo - work on this weekend and Tuesday night
   2. Girl Scouts at Ramp Riot
      1. Went well, we had 45 Scouts and 6 roboteers and four adults from the team
   3. We have the two robots for Bently - where do they go? How long will they be there?
   4. Reports
   5. Plans & Upcoming Events
      1. December 6 - Abington
      2. Plan for March 13 VEX event -- need student coordinator
   6. Discussion about going to the Vex Event in Wesminster MD
      1. There is a benefit to going as a travel event
      2. Need to ask the VEX parents
         1. Pre-pay
         2. Sign up parents to help
         3. Hotel is non-refundable
         4. Need to have parents to understand that we want them to help in March
      3. Need to be set up to ask permission at the December School board meeting
         1. We will discuss this again in December Steering meeting

Next Meeting

Next meeting is 18 December (Friday)

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Steering Committee