Greetings Technical Difficulties, this is your “Week in Robotics Update.”
Message From the Coach:
And we’re off! It was good seeing everyone on Thursday for our first pre-season meeting. I know it wasn’t the most exciting, but there’s always a degree of administration that has to happen. I promise the rest of the time we have leading up to Kickoff in January will be a lot more hands-on. We have a number of interesting projects we’ll be working on; find something that sounds interesting to you and jump in!
Coach Kirk
Kettering Kick Off is a pre-season event that our Team will be attending with both the robot from last year’s competition and our new kit bot. We are excited because it will give all of our students the experience of attending a competition early and with less stress. Students will be encouraged to try all the different roles they want, such as helping in the pit, operating the robot and visiting all the other teams to see their robots. We encourage parents to also attend, to see for themselves what FRC is all about and to cheer on the team. Please fill out this form ASAP so we can start coordinating food and travel plans: (link)
Kettiner Kickoff Student Form (Fill out ASAP)
Kettering Kickoff Event Schedule (Link)
Link to the team’s 2024 SlideShow with information about preseason, our upcoming projects and team safety topics.
TWIR emails can also be read at www.chelsearobotics.org The posts will be found under the FRC 9-12 Menu.
Assistant Coach Steve
Message from our Volunteer Fundraiser Committee Lead.
My name is Eric VanHevel and I have been asked to head up the fundraising committee for the Robotics Boosters this year. This is a call for help. We need people to join the committee this year to achieve our goals. I have spoken to some of you personally and you have graciously volunteered to be on this committee, and I thank you.
Anyone who would like to join is welcome Parents and Students. We are planning to meet this Wednesday 9/11/24 at 6:30 at the Chelsea Robotics Center. At this initial meeting, we will go through goals and brainstorm on activities to achieve these goals. Please consider getting involved with us so that we can make this year and beyond a success for our young engineers.
Please respond to this post to let me know if you plan to attend on Wednesday. If you want to be involved but cannot make it this Wednesday, please let me know this also. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions you might have.
Thank you,
Eric
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Schedule: All events at Chelsea Robotics Center unless noted otherwise
9/10 - Tuesday
Impact meeting 3-4:30 at the CRC
9/11 - Wednesday
6:30, Fundraiser Committee (Parents & FRC Students invited)
9/12 - Thursday
6-9, FRC Team Meeting
9/14
9- 10 am, Hungary/Chelsea Global Friendship Video Call Meeting (optional)
10-2, FTC Meeting, FRC Students welcomed
9/19 - Thursday
6-9, FRC Team Meeting
9/22 - Sunday
Kettering Kick Off
Team Google Calendar Link - All robotics activities will be on our Google Calendar with updates posted as they come up.
Messages from Lead Mentors
Electronics & Control
Hi all!! Welcome to another Season!!
This week we’ll be brainstorming compact electronic design ideas along with coming up with some creative packaging for pneumatics to keep the inspectors happy! ;)
We also need to spend some time cleaning up the electronics area and organizing things we have and identify what we would like to use on this design. We have the faster gearing for the swerve modules, and hopefully we’ll be looking at different motors for drive!
Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday!
- Greg
Impact
This week, we'll be focused on setting up our new space for the season. As you know, we'll be moving into the larger conference room.
Our Tuesday meeting will be at the CRC this week so we can move our supplies. See you then!
Drive
The Kettering pre-season event is Sunday, 9/22. This is an opportunity for anyone that might be interested in being on the drive team either this year or in the future to drive last year’s robot in a competition. Anyone interested in this opportunity, please let me know by Thursday so that we can have a list and a plan to get some practice in before 9/22.
-Eric
Volunteer Coordinator:
Hi 1502 Families!
For those of you who do not yet know me, I’m Dawn Christen and I will be the Parent Coordinator this year. I will be orchestrating keeping this team fueled (fed and hydrated) during our weekend work sessions and for competitions. So be on the lookout for updates from me for those activities.
On the near horizon will be the Kettering Kickoff on 9/22 and I would love some help for that event from any parents who are attending as I will be out of town that weekend.
Anyone interested in helping with team support for this event or for the season, please reach out to me at dawnholly@yahoo.com or on my cell @ 248.320.1374.
I would love to have a meeting soon with those of you interested in a support role for the team. More to come on that soon.
Thanks,
Dawn
Photos of the Week:
Thank you for all the FRC Students that helped out with FTC Kick Off:
First team meeting complete, on the road to a exciting PreSeason!
