Kick off day / the game

So we sent * people to the regional kick off only one of which was a freshman because there was a bit of a mix up and people didn't know they were supposed to have robotics today.

That means there were only two team members and a mentor back at our shop watching the video feed. So all in all we had a total of ten people from the team watch the kickoff today.

Later an old team member showed up and voluntered to be a mentor so now we have three Mentors and our savior(you know the guy who puts up with us everyday and voulunteers his time so we can actually have meetings) Mr. Frank. Our Mentors our Mr.Wolter (the father of two of our old captians) , Erik Vahnan(i speled that wrong but... , one of the near origanial members), and Mike Dorner (who is also one of the near original members)


We did alot of Brian storming today and haven't gotten far pretty much we know our robot will kick a ball and will have four sides.

For any of those none FIRST people out there who may be following this blog

The Game

This year our robots have to play a version of soccer.

Each Allaince will have two goals on the same side of the field. (an alliance is made up of three teams chosen to play together for a round)

the field is divided into three parts The red goals, The middle, And the BLue goals

now dividing these sections are two sided rampts. /`\ that look cinda like that. There is also a little tunnel in the middle of themiddle of the rampts. (======='''''====== so the equals are the ramp the apastrophies are the tunnel, looking from a goal end .)

The point is to score as many goals as possible. Theres more to it but thats the basics i hope i didn't confuse anyone two much.

Any and all ideas are appreciated so please if you come up with any ideas for how to build the robot leave a comment.

Team split and the news

ok so we recently realized that most of our veteran members are not going to be at the compotion. This means that we have three veterians no programer and about ten freshman to run, fix, and possible finsh the robot at the compotion. Because of this unfortunate revalation the team is now two teams

Team one: Leaders Alex, Jessie, And Chris members: all ten freshmen (sorry i haven't learned all the names yet Team one will be building the FIRST robot this year with very little help from anyone else (only design concepts)

Team Two: Leaders Brian Eric Lizzy Members: about six vetrians (two lazy to make sure i get every one) Team two will be working on the NRC robots (with some help from the freshies)

There are also the people in between because we currently have one programmer and two learning so Head programmer: Will will be teaching Joe and Jeremy. These three will program both robotsFRC & NRC.


The NEWS

so we have picked a new mascott it is a kick butt worlf that is robotiffied (yes i said robotiffied). This will be painted on the side of our box

We have painted the new box black and the art team has started to paint on cool things on all the sides (it should look sweet)

We picked a cool name, Fatal Error, for your team. UNfortuantly we found out like yesterday its already taken and so is one of our other choices Bravebots. So today on the day of the Kickoff the ten people who were at the meeting had to pick a new name. After much debate we Decided on.

The Wolf Bytes.

It's an ok name but thats what you get last minute.

Well thats all for now.