First Day

so today was the first robotics meeting during school. Oh my gosh, 8 was a understatement. We had 12 new people and about five people who could not make it. Its going to be so hard to remember names. But at least we'll have a team for the next few years. That is if everyone stays. I got the introduction done. I forgot some things, but it was very difficult to get everyone's attention. We are now more ADD then EVER!!!. well its going to be an interesting year. We are jumping right to it as we have projects scheduled for next week. we have two and if things get done we will add more. One great thing about this is it will be easy to split the team into different projects and not have to worry about having enough. FINALLY.

The Rush to School

So we start school Wednesday and we have a bunch of things that we want to get done. We have some sponsor things that we want to get done. (If anyone wants to or knows someone who would like to donate please let us know!!!) Liz and I put mounted motors on a frame that hasn't worked in a year and only one person remembered how they where mounted. It was a real pain. But is was all in good necessity. We are building a programming bot so our programmers can get a head start on the new language. Monday we put on the electronics and chains so we can get it moving. Another problem that the beginning of school brings is the marching band. Don't get me wrong band is amazing but there is about 4 people on the team not in band, so progress is very slow. on the other hand the good thing about it is that we get some fresh minds in the new people. We have 10 interests already, some from Roehm's team, local middle school, and some just joining. I'm very excited for this year, I think we are going to do very well. Let's just hope the competition doesn't fall on the Disney trip. I will elaborate when we have more information. Phil you left one darn good team behind you. We miss you and wish you good luck. GO FRISBEE.

Fundraiser

The Highschools Freshman Orientation is this Tuesday at 7pm. A few of us decided that we should sell something to raise some money for the team, so we decided on making chocolate suckers and bracelets. Problem is that everybody is pretty busy this weekend. That takes out the Chocolate sucker idea. Then today we attempted to make the bracelets using hemp and thread. The bracelet idea failed due to the fact that we only have three done and they took forever to make. Eventually we said screw it and a couple of the guys and I went to BJs To get some candy in bulk. Today we were only checking out prices and figuring out how much we would make with what candy and how much we should buy. We ended up deciding on Blow Pops. With just a bucket of 100 and we would come out with almost $18 if we sold the suckers for 25 cents a piece. On Monday we are returning to BJs to pick up one bucket of the Blow Pops and then Tuesday at 6pm we are skipping Band Camp to go sell them at 7pm at the Orientation. Hopefully we can escape with out getting into to much trouble with the Band Directors.
Well thats it for now. I'll post how we do on Tuesday I guess.

-Liz

No Robotics?

Due to the custodians wanting to clean the shop and such, we will not be meeting again until Monday August 10th. Not that we would really being doing much but maybe organizing stuff but still.. we will meet..
-Liz

annoyance

You know, work is really starting to annoy me. i get there and start something but before you know it I have to hand it of to someone to do it and take off. I'm never there anymore. it was nice because the former captain was there to make sure things got done. BUT HE DECIDED TO LEAVE. SO BLAH TO YOU PHIL. Haha just kidding. you have fun in Paraguay, the team is fine. but dont expect to get off so easy I'll still have questions galore for you. *evil snicker*.

Cancellations oh noez

This past Friday (July 3rd, 2009) a bunch of us showed up for a meeting.


The door to get into the school was locked (it usually is) and we had to call a custodian to come let us in/turn off the alarm (like we usually have to).

We stood there waiting for the guy to let us in but when he got there he had a chart in his hand. This chart was the chart saying what groups of people will be in the school on what days and he told us/showed us that the school district (or..who ever is in charge of that kind of thing) had canceled all activities/groups meeting at the school for the weekend because of the fact that this weekend is a holiday weekend. So we also didn't have a meeting yesterday (July 4th 09) either.

Being behind a couple of days isn't a big deal at the moment because it's not the Build Season yet (not time for our next big competition) and we aren't exactly in a rush to get anything done, especially because we are still only in planning stages for the shipping crate design. (the paint job part of it)

NOW we get a couple days off... lol thats allz
Laterz,
-Liz

Shipping Crate

Currently we are working on a new shipping crate for our robot. The crate is built and it is really nice. It has a a coat rack for when we are at competition plus a lock box for the team member's valuables built in. We just finished a base coat of white paint on it. Next comes the decisions of what to put as the designs, symbols, and colors for the main coat. Well that's pretty much the update for now.

Welcome To BHS Robotics

Hello Everyone,

We set up this blog to keep everyone updated on our progress.
We are the Berea High School Robotics team from Berea, Ohio.
We have between 20-30 members at any given time. We are involved in the FIRST Robotics competition and the National Robotics Challenge. We try to get involved with many different activities to keep ourselves busy and sometimes we even come up with our own projects.
As things happen team members will be updating the blog.