Agenda, 9/14/2008

Project:
Finish selecting topic and start research on it (1 week behind)

Robot:
Discuss robot design and how we finalize
Pick mission assignments and start working on them (1 week behind)


Misc:
Finish posting missions
Continue sensor characterization, get into Nate's spreadsheet
How to organize software: MyBlocks analysis (Alex), other ideas: Michael, Andrew, Paul

Agenda, 9/11/2008

General:

• Alex - present the schedule he prepared for this past Sunday, when we ran out of time.
• Post the missions and rules, which Alex pointed out was to be performed this meeting per the schedule.

Project:

• Start meeting by completing last weeks schedule item "narrow down topic" and voting on the items identified in Sunday's brain storming.
• Per schedule, compile info.

Robot:

• Per schedule, assign missions.
• To that end:
• ---Joey, Patrick, Andrew to complete first pass mission tracker
• ---Group decides on who does what
• NOTE: design review of Andrew's robot delayed until Mr. Emge's return on Sunday, 9/14

Agenda, 9/7/2008

CHALLENGE ANNOUNCED!
See the link to the right.

Everyone on the team to digest as much of the project and robot rules as they can before our short meeting.

Project, from schedule: brainstorm to narrow down topic and pick who does what.

Mrs. Naughton gives the following guidance:
read up on Midwest Climate Change at the following link:
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/overviewmidwest.htm
other helpful links:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/UniqueKeyLookup/SHSU5BUP43/$File/il_impct.pdf
http://www.cier.umd.edu/climateadaptation/Illinois%20Economic%20Impacts%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf
http://www.ucsusa.org/greatlakes/glregionill_cli.html

Robot, from schedule: list of missions.
Joey and Andrew have already done a first pass. If time after project, review their work and any other brought to the meeting.

General: post the rules and missions in the lab, review Alex's schedule

9/27/2007, Meeting Agenda, pics from 9/13

Announcements
Strategy, continued
Training

• Trialbot1 review


• Design process

Organization
Schedule

"Trialbot1"

9/20/2007 Meeting Agenda

Thanks to the Toennies for lending their laptop for our meetings. We now have 2 good computers for programming and 1 for project work.

Project research done by the team will be presented during the 1st half of the meeting, followed by robot design review and challenge planning. The boys will be encouraged to think like a robot for this exercise.

Mr. Emge attended the NXT training meeting and got some good design ideas and Lego tech support contacts.

Next week is the coaches' meeting.

2007 Challenge Announced!

The challenge link has been added to the right. Tomorrow's meeting will concentrate on the project first and the robot challenge second. We will keep this priority until the project is mostly complete, working on robot challenge strategy, robot building ideas and a line following algorithm in parallel.

Parents - please send in your consent forms. Copies were sent home and copies are available at the link to the right.

We've requested January regional tournaments. Assigned dates will be announced on 10/30.

Meeting Agenda, 8/23/2007

• Populate the table with challenge assemblies.
• Discuss what the challenge might be based on the mat and pieces.
• Put together the power puzzle.
• 3 teams working on programming a mini challenge, learning about gears and discussing how the challenge is judged. We'd like to have some working robots to show on Saturday.
• "Homework:" Most teams have matching T-shirts with their name and logo. What should Supernova's logo be?