Meeting Notes –September 30, 2008


Lynbrook H.S. Robotics Program
Notes for the meeting of
September 30th, 2008

Officers Present: Michael Wachenschwanz, Daiwei Li, John Chai, Toshitaka Tachibana, Alan Tsao, Yuya Bessho, Edward Lu, Manami Yokoyama, David Liu, Chinmay Jaju
Advisors Present: Mr. G
Officers Absent: Aashish Sreedharan

Guests: Yusuke Sato, Matt Hong, Jonathan Xie, Eric Shen, Avik, Tony Ho, Kevin Gan, Steve Hatton

The meeting was called to order at 7:12 pm.

Hey Everyone,

These are topics we discussed in this meeting.

  • Old Business
    • Night on the Quad
      • Robot broke again
      • Very successful
      • Probably going to do again next year
    • WRRF Workshops
      • Feed back
        • New control system
          • Not useful
          • Disappointing
          • Everything mentioned was online
        • Motors
          • Useful
        • Our presentation
          • Didn’t practice whole thing together
          • Received Positive Feedback
  • New Business
    • Upcoming Events
      • Fleet Week
        • Things to discuss at meeting
          • History of Club
          • First Program
          • Build Season
          • IaROC
          • Grants
          • Upcoming events
            1. Fleet Week
          • Mr. Xie’s Speech
          • Q+A
          • Regional
          • Website Demo
        • Will work on them tomorrow after school
      • Parent and Tech Meeting
        • 2 weeks from today
        • Oct 7th and Oct 14th respectively
    • Prospect/ Fremont Demo
      • Daiwei contacted the advisor at Prospect
      • Now waiting for a reply
      • John contacted Fremont principal
      • Have not heard back
      • Switched to the assistant principal
      • Still have not heard back
  • Officer Reports
    • Edward
      • HTML meetings
      • 21 people signed up
    • Chimnay
      • Robocode
        • Gone for Science Bowl tomorrow as well
        • Has a replacement this time
    • David
      • Still migrating website to new host
    • Michael
      • Money Status: $14,000
      • Check from Tom not signed
      • Sent back for signature
  • Open Floor Discussions:
    • Driver Training
    • Regional Choices
      • SVR+CMP for sure
      • Probably not going to have 3rd regional
    • The different NASA Grants
      • 1st type
        • Regional grant
        • Go to regional get grant
      • 2nd type
        • Rookie grant
        • Given to rookie teams first with veteran teams on the bottom of the list
    • LASER QUEST
      • Oct 18
      • 7ish to 10ish
      • 2 rounds whole field
    • Officer outline/reports
      • Write goals for month
      • Probably not going to be mandatory
      • Ask if you want to be reviewed
      • Recommended to impress your officers
      • Officer/ MVP award?
  • Things to discuss next week
    • None

 


The meeting was adjourned at 8:17 pm.

Minutes recorded by Alan Tsao