Hey there, Space Cookies!
With Christmas and New Year's approaching, THE robotics build-period is about to begin! We'll be given only 6 weeks to design and build an entire robot for competition, starting January 5th - the Kickoff.
Mark your Calendars! There are some incredibly important days for you to attend. Really, really important, if you want to take part in the robot. E-mail me about whether you can go. Those of you who can't better b
SHOP CERTIFICATION:
Dates: Weds, Jan 2nd and Thurs, Jan 3rd.
*You only need to go to one of the two days.
Time: 4pm to 7pm
Location: the NASA robotics lab
What's going on: You'll become certified to work in the shop
after a lesson in procedures and safety. We cannot let you work on the
machines otherwise.
Other important activities and announcements also take place during these days.
You need to come!!!
THE KICKOFF:
Date: Sat, Jan 5th
Time: from 10am to whenever you wish to leave (we officially end at 4)
Location: the NASA conference room (subject to change)
What's going on: An essential day to launch the season! We'll be watching The Kickoff on NASA TV,
showing THE animation of this year's challenge and a bunch of speeches
by the incredibly engineers who created this competition. After seeing
the animation for the first time, we'll start brainstorming our
robot!!!
Food: Breakfast/lunch (or as some call it, brunch) will be provided (FREE FOOD!)
PROTOTYPE DASH&BASH:
Date: Sun, Jan 6th
Time: drop in anytime, leave anytime within 10am to 4pm
Location: NASA robotics lab
What's going on: Our
designs will be put to the test - we'll be building speedy prototypes
to test our ideas from brainstorming the day before. By the end, we'll
have a giant face-off between the prototypes and chose the design for
our final robot. You don't have to be there the entire time .
Food: again, will be provided!
After that, we have the 6-week build period. The lab will be open for work every weekday from 4pm to 8pm (later if necessary) and weekends from 12pm to 6 pm (also might end later if necessary). You can come in at any time to work during those hours. Team meetings are scheduled for every Wednesday. Dinners will be served to everyone attending on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Again, the three events listed above are incredibly important. E-mail me an RSVP by Tuesday, December 25th and tell me you can go. Those of you who cannot make it must give specific reasons.
Happy Holidays, everyone.
-Lilian
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