Gearing Up For Competition

Our robot has shipped, yet our work is never done. Why? Because we have been busy mentoring students from both Hawthorne and El Rodeo Science Olympiad Robo-cross teams. Robo-cross is the name of their robotics competition, and we've been helping them get their robots ready. Internally, we've been working on our team brochure. Additionally, we just finished our submission for AutoDesk Inventor. This will be our first time to partake in this aspect of the competition. We are very proud of this endeavor. To prepare for "our orange fever," (careful, it's contagious!), we've ordered our new shirts and are compiling all of our spirit items in order to get ready to make a statement at the competition. It'll be orange galore. We submitted our website, our animation, and our Chairman's essays for consideration, and we continue to update this informative newsletter. We've finally cleaned up our room, so much so that we can actually see the floor. The business team is working on our booth, brochure, and our "book," which highlights all of our achievements. Our human player is busy practicing shooting orbit balls so that we will have a competitive human player. Additionally, members of four team are going to conduct three assemblies at Beverly Vista's 4th-8th grades. We will be demonstrating robots and doing a comprehensive robotics presentation, including a PowerPoint. We are doing the presentation in an effort to stimulate interest in the Robotics program. We continue to work on our TV Show, and you would be able to see us filming our team and others throughout the duration of the LA Regional Competition. We are finishing up our business plan, including tabulating certain fiscal info, such as profits, losses, and expenditures. Shosh is our shop manager and she is organizing our building materials. She's packing up all the necessary tools and accessories for the competition. Don't forget to support us by coming to the Los Angeles Regional Competition, which will occur at the Long Beach Arena! It will be a three-day affair, but the best day to come would be Saturday, from 9-5pm. We will do our best to "shoot for the moon," in this game of "lunacy."