November 8th, 2013

November 1st, 2013

*Parents Meeting
*Electrical Meeting
*T-Shirt Bot
*Hull Middle School Mentoring
*Video Grant
*VEX
*Girls Get IT Event

Parents Meeting
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On Tuesday, we held our parent meeting in order to update the parents on what’s going on. The biggest thing discussed at the meeting is that we NEED parent mentors to volunteer at our VEX event. Parents are necessary as our inspectors, judges, referees, operators for the audio/video, and parents to run concessions, registration, and the silent auction.

Electrical Meeting
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If you are interested in attending the electrical meeting, please come! The meeting will be next Wednesday, November 6th at 5:15; it will be on battery safety. On of our mentors and a parent of one our students will be teaching; Mr. Webb.

T-Shirt Bot
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This Friday, the t-shirt was finally established as completed! This incredible robot was named KTash after our departing principal Dr.Kevin Tashlein. The robot was shown to him Friday evening at 6 PM, and was publicly unveiled at the football game! The spectators at the game screamed and cheered for a t-shirt to be fired at them, while others simply marveled at the creation; this truly shows the value of our many months of hard work and dedication.

Hull Middle School Mentoring
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This is now our 8th week volunteering at the middle school! The experience is incredible, and we couldn’t be any luckier to have this opportunity..

Rockwell Automation Video Grant
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A huge thanks to Aakash Patel for heading this project and getting everything done in one day! This was a video grant in which a few of our members submitted a video for a grant that Rockwell Automation is sponsoring.

VEX
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We have made good progress and teams are nearing completion. Most robots are looking the way they were envisioned! Our engineering notebooks up-to-date. The competition is nearing; now less than a month away!

Girls Get IT Event at Turner Broadcasting
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Girls Get IT is hosting an event on Thursday, November 7th, 2013. This is a great opportunity for females to gain more insight in the technology world, and is a unique learning experience that can take you very far in the future.Our girls are excited to attend this event!

Friday, October 25th, 2013

*Girls Get IT Event
*VEX Field
*Football Game
*Parent Meeting
*Electrical Meeting
*Hull Middle School Volunteering

Girls Get IT at Turner Broadcasting
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Girls Get IT is hosting an event on Thursday, November 7th, 2013. This is a great opportunity for females to gain more insight in the technology world, and is a unique learning experience that can take you very far in the future. Our girls are very excited to attend this event!

VEX Field
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Our very own VEX field has been set up in our storage room, The Cave! We are excited to have a practice field ahead of time of our VEX competition; an opportunity we have never had before.

Football Game
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At our final home game (11/1), we will be selling jewelry, shooting the Frisbee Bot, and most importantly, shooting the T-shirt bot!! Get ready to represent your Robolions one last time for our principal Dr. Tashline; this game will be hype!

Parents Meeting
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A parent meeting will be held Tuesday October 29th in order to update all Robolions’ parents on the month’s ongoing events.

Electrical Meeting
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Interested in electrical parts, components, and functions? Come to electrical meetings! These meetings are filled with great information taught by one of our mentors, Mr. Webb. What is taught here will be greatly valued in the future, especially during the Spring FRC season.

Hull Middle Robotics Mentoring
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This is now our 7th week volunteering at the middle school! The experience is incredible, and we couldn’t be any luckier to have this opportunity.

Friday, October 18th, 2013

*Programming
*T-Shirt Bot
*Hull MS Volunteering
*Electrical
*Football Game
*Girls Get IT Event

Programming
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Meetings will continue to be on Thursdays, where members will learn both text-based Java and Labview. These lessons are a great opportunity for our members to get great insight in programming!

T-Shirt Bot
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All that is left before final completion is the powder-coating of the bot. After the completion of this process, the bot will be ready to go!

Hull’s FLL Team: Volunteering
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This is now our 6th week volunteering at the middle school! The experience is incredible, and we couldn’t be any luckier to have this opportunity.

CAD

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Our CAD and Inventor lessons that we will soon begin will be great opportunities to learn- it’s something that we’ve never done before! (All of our past CADders are self-taught) By learning CAD, members will be able to make incredible contributions to the team, as well as use this greatly valued skill in the future.

Football Game
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At our final home game (11/1), we will be selling jewelry, shooting the Frisbee Bot, and most importantly, shooting the T-shirt bot!! We are very excited to have this opportunity!

 Girls Get IT
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Girls Get IT is hosting an event on Thursday, November 7th, 2013. This is truly a great opportunity for females to gain more insight in the technology world, and is a unique learning experience that can take you very far in the future. Our girls are very excited to attend this event!

Friday, October 11th, 2013

*GRITS
* Electrical
*Robolions at Football Games
*VEX
* Hull Middle Volunteering

GRITS
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GRITS was this past Saturday, October 5th!! This event was a highly successful day for the Robolions. At the end of qualification matches, we ranked as the #8 team. The Robolions were picked as alliance members of Team 832 and Team 2415. We reached the final match and lost from technical issues. However, we did receive the Outreach Award for the most number of new members! Although we did not win, we tasted victory and got and even better view on out strengths and weaknesses, and greatly anticipate the 2014 FRC Season!

Electrical Meetings

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Anyone interested in learning about the electrical components of our robots-

*Soldering (Small to Large cables & fittings, possible some chips
on PCB)
* Battery Safety
* Wiring, cables (Proper sizing of the gauge & types of wire, amp
charts)
* Power Consumption (P=VI) & Thermal Considerations (Heat Sinks)
Special classes are now being offered by Mr. Webb, one of our parents on Wednesdays

Friday Night Lights
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At the final home game, we will most likely be shooting the t-shirt bot.

VEX
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The VEX competition that we are holding is just about a month away!

Team leaders have been keeping teams on track and working hard! Engineering notebooks are strong, as teams have been tediously keeping up with these!

Hull Middle School

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This is now our 5th week volunteering at the middle school! The experience is incredible, and we couldn’t be any luckier to have this opportunity.

Sunday, October 6th, 2013

Friday, September 27th, 2013
*GRITS
*Car Wash
*VEX
*Learning Electrical Components

GRITS:

In only 11 days, Saturday, October 5th, we will be attending the Georgia Robotics Invitational Tournament and Showcase (GRITS) at the World Congress Center in Downtown Atlanta.

GRITS is a showcase event in which Georgia robotics teams compete and play the previous year’s FRC game. This will be a fun and exciting opportunity for new members to get a taste of what the second semester of robotics is like. It’s a lot of fun and gives new members a feel of the excitement and fun!

Car Wash:

The PRHS Robotics team is planning a car wash TOMORROW at the Walgreens
located near the intersection of Meadow Church and Sugarloaf Pkwy to help raise funds. The team has a great reputation in the community for working hard and doing an EXCELLENT job cleaning the inside and out of cars, trucks etc!

VEX:

VEX season is on its way, and the Qualifier is not far from being right around the corner.

Teams have been working hard; all teams have completed their chasis and are now working on the offensive and defensive aspects of their robots. Also, teams have been working hard in keeping up with their engineering notebooks.

Learning Electrical Aspects:

Lessons about the electrical components of our robots-Soldering, Battery Safety, Wiring, cables, Power Consumption  & Thermal Consideration lessons starting Wed 10/2

On Wednesday, September 25th, 2013, select members attended NRC, displaying our FRC Robot to business owners in the community. This was a unique opportunity that the Robolions were given to get out into the community and build relations.

We are attending the football game tonight displaying our FRC Robot as well as selling homemade earrings (brightly colored robots) and bracelets (made of twine and hex nuts)