Our team of more than 70 students, faculty advisors and mentors recently participated in the Washington DC Regional Competition. At this competition the team’s hard work and determination exhibited throughout the six weeks prior clearly paid off. The team fought its way to the #2 seed position, won the Regional Finalist Award, won the Engineering …
Volunteers: Please meet at Herndon High School behind the drama room at 11:30 AM on Saturday October 27. For those driving, please remember to bring your drivers license, the security at the gate will ask for a photo ID to verify your name with the list I will provide them. For those riding, please bring …
The FTC Competition Scheduled for 1/21/2012 has been delayed 2 hours. Doors will open at 9 AM.
Fairfax County Public Schools has cancelled all activities for tomorrow 1/21/2012. Therefore tomorrow’s meeting is cancelled. Stay tuned to additional emails regarding a possible Sunday afternoon meeting. Otherwise our next meeting will be on Monday 1/23/2012. The FTC Competition is still on! An announcement will be made by 5:30 tomorrow morning with an updated status.
Today we continued to work on CDR Presentations. We will hold CDR presentations next meeting, this Saturday from 9-4. Team members helping out with the FTC Competition Concession Sales get double hours for that day.
Today we continued to work on CDR Presentations. The actual presentation of ideas will take place this Saturday at 9 AM. Make sure your subgroup is ready to present then. Please check Wherley’s email from tonight to find the templates for the powerpoint and the BOM. Our next meeting will be this Thursday from 7-10. …
Today we finished our discussion about the general robot design. CDR will be next Saturday so each of the subteams need to have their presentation done by then. We also assigned subteams today so make sure that you talk to Dave ASAP if you missed today’s meeting. Our next meeting is tomorrow from 6-10. Be …
Congrats guys we’ve finally made it. The trip is tomorrow! Be there by 5:30… in the morning… or else we’ll just have to leave without you!
One more week!!! Things have sure come a long way since the beginning of build season and we are almost there. Please keep in mind that several subgroups are in need of some help. Make sure that if you are ever able to offer an extra hand, you talk with a sub team captain and …
As discussed in several meetings, Autodesk has allowed our team access to several student editions of there programs. These editions are fully functional and have proven to be quite useful throughout build season. Anyone who does not have access to these programs (especially 3ds MAX and AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite 2011) should definitely take advantage …