Sept 27 Robot Coach’s Blog

I am looking for about a dozen adult volunteers for our Veteran’s Day robotics tournament. At the event, we will be hosting both a VEX Scrimmage and a FIRST LEGO League Scrimmage.  We need adults to serve as refs, judges, queuing, concessions, and crowd control.  Keep in mind, if you also plan to help out at the Dec 5 LEGO League Tournament or Jan 10 VEX Tournament, this is a good way to get some practice.

Here is a nice photo of our BUA students preparing for the FLL Scrimmage.  They are building the LEGO playing fields right before Back To School Night on Sept 15th.

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For our FIRST FRC Season:  Mark your calendar: We are registered for the Boston University District Event on April 1-3.  The event starts at 5PM on Friday April 1st and runs through Sunday evening.

Lab time this coming week:  We will be open on Tuesday and Friday this coming week.

The Lab:  I spent some time this week cleaning up the office end of our lab. I want to reiterate our food policy.  I found two bags of fresh food – from six months ago.  It was unworthy of a chemistry experiment.  The nice table that faces the rocket lab windows will now be reserved for VISTA and official FIRST use only.  Please keep your items off of it.  I am doing an annual house cleaning of the lab.  In the process donating our excess inventory to local rookie teams.

VEX: The students are doing great work in the lab.  Notice how clean the lab is. If they are ready, we will compete in Manchester, NH on Halloween, Oct 31.

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Material Donations needed: The lab needs several items.  If you would like to donate one of these items to the team, it would be appreciated.

  • Laptop: For programming
  • Desktop: For CAD
  • Rolling Toolchest: The one we have is falling apart.
  • Small filing cabinet with a working lock.