Meeting Notes -August 26, 2008


Lynbrook H.S. Robotics Program
Notes for the meeting of
August 26th, 2008

Officers Present: Michael Wachenschwanz, Daiwei Li, John Chai, Aashish Sreedharan, Toshitaka Tachibana, Alan Tsao, Yuya Bessho, Chinmay Jaju, Edward Lu, Manami Yokoyama
Advisors Present: Mr. G
Officers Absent: None
Guests: Yusuke Sato, David Liu, Matt Hong, Alexander Lin, Adam Zhang Jonathan Xie, Eric Xie

The meeting was called to order at 7:08 pm.

Hey Everyone,

These are topics we discussed in this meeting.

  • Old Business
      • Jim Beck Visit
        • Presented without a problem
      • Chief Software Engineer Application
        • Due 8/18/08
        • Received applications from David and Yusuke
        • It is impossible to have two software engineers as stated by our constitution
  • New Business
    • Upcoming Events
      • First club meeting
        • 9/10
      • Recruitment and club day
        • Posters finished
        • Also meeting to make a video
      • Parent Meeting
        • Mentor Speech
          • Need ideas to convince parents to let kids join
          • Good on college applications, jobs training etc
      • Fleet week
        • New job opportunity at Johnsonville Big Taste Grill
        • Past members thought carts were more fun than merchandise booth
        • Probably going to do both merchandise and grill
      • NASA Family Night
        • Ask about the security
          • Citizen, Permenant Resident?
      • WRRF Workshops
      • DP products
        • Presenting Poster on Friday
      • Night on the Quad
        • We have as much space as we need
        • Just a regular demo
    • Constitutional Amendments
    • CSE Interviews
      • First Tuesday and Wednesday of September
    • Macy’s Coupon
      • We get coupouns from Macy’s to sell to people
      • We give back what we don’t sell and keep all the profits
      • Risk free
      • Ask to see what is the purpose (make sure we won’t lose money)
  • Open Floor Discussions:
    • Science Buddies
      • Online Q&A forum
      • Counts as community service
    • Robocode Competition
      • Intraclub competition to create robocode
      • May expand if to other clubs if it works out
    • Paintball of Laser tag?
      • Probably not going to be paintball for social
      • Maybe at a later date?
    • Lunch Demo
      • Before Calgames adds publicity
      • After Calgames protects the robot
    • Another BBQ to welcome new members?
      • Rainbow Park
      • Bring food such as burgers, hot dogs, Korean BBQ, watermelon, etc
      • Activities such as ultimate Frisbee, CTF, scavenger hunt, water fight, etc


The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 pm.

Minutes recorded by Alan Tsao