November 30, 2016

Jackson and Christian worked very hard on it! Here's Team 3691's submission for the 2017 Safety Animation Contest!

November 29, 2016
29 people attended this meeting.

A pretty basic meeting today. Everyone worked on things they've been working on in previous weeks.

• Safety animation is near complete
• Subteams worked on their robots
• Ivan finished the sponsor thank you letters

We meet again next Tuesday, December 6.
--Written by Jackson Hillmann

November 22, 2016
28 people attended this meeting.

The last day of school before Thanksgiving break! Today did these things:

• Jackson and Christian made huge progress on the safety animation
• Chris and Ivan finished fundraising letters, worked on some grants, and did some safety-promotion things.
• The other groups:
  • Fabricated six hex axle rods, eight belt tension brackets
  • Programmed eight talon-xrs
  • Finished pneumatics testbed
  • Other machining and programming.

Next meeting will be November 29, 2016
​--Written by Jackson Hillmann

November 15th, 2016
38 people attended this meeting

The day started with a presentation about future STEM careers from Lee Runzheimer. Jake then presented about how  to use the new electronic inventory system. After that, we worked on the following things:

• Sub-teams worked on robots
  • Groups 1 and 2 worked on electrical
  • Group 3 worked on chassis and wheels
  • Group 4 worked on programming
• Fundraising  worked on an application for a Youth Bank sponsorship
  
• Progress on the Safety Animation was made, Logan Ledman provided the voice-over
  
• Jackson added one more mentor bio to the team website
  
• Alex continued work on the budget 

The next meeting will be November 22, 2016
--Written by Jackson Hillmann

November 10th, 2016 (November 8th was election day so we postponed the meeting to today)
32 people attended this meeting

Today was a general work day.

• Rookie teams worked on robots
• Christian made progress on safety animation
• Ivan and Alex progressed on thank you notes and general fundraising/budget things
• Jackson put sponsor logos and first mentor bios on website (those are coming soon!)

Our next meeting is November 15th, 2016
--Written by Jackson Hillmann

November 1, 2016
33 people attended this meeting

Today was an open lab day.

• Rookies
  • Continued working on robots
  • Learned part names
  • Worked with pneumatics
  • Examined gear boxes
• Veterans
  • Made 35 fundraising letters
  • Updated website
  • Storyboarded and scripted Safety Animation
  • Updated list of parts to order

Our next meeting will be a structured team meeting on November 8, 2016

​--Written by Jackson Hillmann