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Competitions, News, Team

DC Regional – Mar 29 and 30 – See 116 compete!

Here is our match schedule for Friday and Saturday:

Friday (Mar 29)

09-Q 116 4242 1849 709 1731 2121 10:19am
16-Q   4456 1446 116 138 611 2974 11:15am
26-Q  2186 2630 1123 116 4464 422 1:53pm
36-Q 623 79 4137 116 1915 2630 3:13pm
45-Q  1195 2377 614 4466 612 116 4:25pm
50-Q  2912 4466 1735 166 3941 116 5:05pm

Saturday (Mar 30)

59-Q  116 686 2642 166 1522 2849 9:32am
77-Q  2914 2900 383 709 2534 116 11:56am
84-Q  1719 620 116 1389 2963 2961 11:41am

Webcast

http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/livestream/dcregional.php

The robot is working well, and the few problems we had were quickly fixed.  During our practice matches today, it seems like things were really finally coming together.  In some of the practice matches, we scored 38, 46, and 58 points all by ourselves.  We actually left the pits early tonight, because there was nothing left to fix, and nothing to work on!  If we can keep that up, tomorrow should be pretty interesting.

News, Outreach, Team

New Member Meeting! Sep 25, 2012

Come to our New Member Meeting and learn about everything the HHS Robotics team does. There will be pizza and presentations about each aspect of our team – come to find out more where you can help and have fun! We do more than just build robots, there’s bound to be a part of the team you’ll find interesting. Bring a friend and get involved!

Our team meets every Tuesday in the Herndon High School drama room from 7P to 9P during the Fall.

Build Season, News, Team

Kickoff!! Saturday, Jan 7 at 9a

Team116’s kickoff event will be held on Saturday, January 7, 9:00a, at the Herndon High School library. Come to watch the FIRST broadcast, eat breakfast, and learn the new game for this year!

The library is located to the left of the main office as you walk into Door #1 at the front of the school.

 

News, Team

Parents’ Meeting this Tuesday, Nov 8 at 7p

All student team members’ parents are asked to attend a short parent meeting this Tuesday, Nov 8 at 7p. We’ll discuss the general team guidelines, your student’s participation, our build season, competitions, costs, and other details for the season. We look forward to seeing you there!

Team

FRC Awards Survey for all team members

Bill (Director of FRC at FIRST) of Bill’s Blog: http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2011/09/list-new-region.html is “asking about your team’s experience with FRC Awards.  For this survey I would like everyone’s individual input.  Please encourage everyone you know on an FRC team to take the survey by Wednesday, Sept 28th.”

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VQVBPH2

Via Mike Y. on our team mailing list.

News, Team

New members’ interest meeting – Tuesday, Sep 20

The New Members’ Meeting will be on Tuesday, Sep 20 in the Herndon High School’s drama room!

Our team members will present topics such as,

  • Team history
  • Info about FIRST
  • Team benefits, such as scholarship opportunities
  • Philosophy and expectations
  • Our build teams and season info
  • Competitions and awards
  • Finances, spirit, travel
  • Anecdotes

Come for the pizza, stay for the robots!

Team

Team 116 organizing meeting this Wednesday

We will be having an organizational meeting for the 2011-2012 season this Wednesday evening at 7:00-9:00pm in the robot shop. Please come prepared with ideas, comments, questions, contributions, thoughts, and creativity.

Things we need to discuss:

  • Team goals
  • Team organization
  • Officers for 2011-2012
  • Policies and expectations
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Recruiting new members
  • Fall pre-season activities and projects
  • Outreach activities
  • The shop, supplies, and materials
  • Animation team activities
  • Mid-size robotics (FTC, VEX, etc)

News, Team

Scheduling update

The team’s administration is determining our summer meeting schedule – there’s many projects to complete! The remaining ones are listed below:

  1. Shop cleanup and re-organization!
  2. PoliceBot/RescueBot development
  3. Fall FLL event in DC (details TBD)
  4. Fall off-season event/scrimmage for recruiting new team members
  5. Complete mill CNC-upgrade
Continue watching the team mailing list and here for updates!

Team

Meeting cancelled

Tonight’s meeting is cancelled. See the mailing list for our next team meeting date.

Outreach, Team

HHS Robotics at the Herndon Festival

The team brought its VEX field and outreach booth once again to the Herndon Festival! We staffed continuous games with ‘square-bots’, small, remote controlled robots for all ages. Hundreds of people saw our booth, interacted with our members, and learned about what we do as a team!

Our team members also volunteered to help staff the 5K/10K race on Sunday, June 5th.

HHS Robotics booth