On Monday August 5, 2019 our FLL team #23866, finished building their game piece to place on their game board. They also discusses their core values for this year. Their core values this year are:
The kids worked very hard today and are very excited for the rest of the season.
What a great and rewarding experience!
Team work side by side with some of the Woodside Bible Church members and help out a 92 year old Algonac resident with filling and placing sandbags around her house to prevent further flood damage.
This is it!
Team was planning to hit the road tomorrow morning, but because of inclement weather in the Flint/Saginaw area, we decided to go ahead and drive there tonight.
If anybody is driving to Saginaw in the next few days, please contact Coach Seb, Coach Jared or Coach Nicole. There are a few students that would love to join and they only need a ride up there.
We are in the Ford Division. You can watch us live on Twitch and if we played in the playoff on Saturday afternoon, we will be on ESPN3 live.
Follow us on Facebook all weekend. We will have a thread and post all update on our group page.
Team will be driving “Boomer” in the DTE booth and shoot T-Shirts. It is imperative that at any given time, the operator is well aware of their surroundings and who is by the canon. This is important and we do not want to have any incident. DTE is very excited to use this canon to shoot t-shirt and as far as i know, we are the only team there that will be doing this!
Remember, we are all representing the swamp and while we are a small town, we are respectful, act with integrity and use gracious professionalism with everything we do. PERIOD. If anyone is not following these simple rules, you will not be allowed to participate in the event.
Qualification rounds will be going until Friday around dinner time. Then the alliance selection will be started. If we are selected or end up being an alliance captain, we will be playing in the elimination round on Saturday. In the event that we are not, we will still attend the elimination rounds and the award ceremonies.
Good luck to Shelby Woods our Dean List nominee and Coach Nicole, our Woodie Flowers nominee. These are great achievements and no matter what the outcome, we are very proud to have you on our team!
Let’s do this, this is our chance to show what we learned over the last 4 years. Many teams are looking at us and it should be a great event for all involve… Just remember, work hard, be courteous, use gracious professionalism and have fun in the process!
It’s official! The Full Metal Muskrats ranked 149 out of 542 teams in the Michigan District. The team is officially qualified to participate at the Michigan State Championship this weekend at Saginaw Valley State University along with 160 teams from all over Michigan. This will be the teams first time at States!
We will be competing for a spot at the FIRST Championship in Detroit later this month. Wish us luck!
The event is free to attend if you wish to join us this Thursday thru Saturday. Follow this link for event information including a link to the webcast if you want to cheer from home. https://firstinmichigan.us/FRC/state-championship/
Algonac Robotics FTC team the Roborats and our FLL Jr. team the Moon Muskrats will be participating in the Championship in Detroit April 24-27. Follow this link to preplan your visit down to Detroit for this event. Again, it is a free event, but you do have to register either in advance or at the event. Come see teams from all over the world show off their hard work. There are some hands on exhibits to explore as well. Last year the city was a buzz with many activities outside Cobo too. Come down explore and help us cheer on our teams! https://www.firstchampionship.org/detroit
Application are open for FRC team members. Look like we have full roster for FTC and FLL. If you did not fill the application please do so by using the link below.
If you have a friend interested in joining the First Robotics Competition (FRC) High School level team, make sure they submit the application using the following link. –> Algonac Robotics Student Application
Fall Sponsorship Drive
Business team is collecting addresses for a sponsorship mailing. If anyone has any businesses they want to add to the list they can send the info to algonacrobotics15@gmail.com
Each event listed below has a separate sign up for students to RSVP.
It is mandatory for FTC and FRC students to RSVP or you will not be allow to participate in the events.
This is very important for the coaches to know so we can plan ahead.
To sign up for an event, click on the link, sign in on signup genius and select one of the options for the upcoming events.
10/12-13 FRC Grand Rapids Girls Competition
Out of town events where only girls will be “touching” the robot. Open to boys and girls. Sign up here –> Grand Rapids Girls Competition 10/12-13
10/19 DTE Energy Robotics Expo.
Some of our team students will be presenting to about 100-150 business professionals on how we applied and incorporate continuous improvement and problem solving into our robot building. Lunch will be provided and then FTC and FRC robots will be demo and discussed with DTE employees in the afternoon. This is a great outreach to one of our sponsor.
Sign up here –> DTE Energy Robotics Expo
10/19 T-Shirt Canon Outreach
FTC and FRC team members to support the t-shirt canon at the football game. Sign up here –> Friday Night Light – 10/19
10/25 Algonac Robotics Open House
11/10 FLL jr Event Marysville
Team Specific Information
Next meeting is this Wednesday 6-9pm. See you all there!
This week we will continue gearing up for the Grand Rapids events.
Friday, we will meet at the lab around noon. Finish packing the trailer and then head out to Grand Rapids.
If you are coming this weekend, make sure you attend the meeting Wednesday so we can finalize travel arrangements and reservations.
This weeks meetings: Tuesday & Thursday 6 – 9pm
We understand that it is late for a school night and if you cannot stay until 9 it is understandable.
The team made good progress on programming, the robot build and in Solidworks this past week.
The business team also got a lot done by sending out 250 sponsorship brochures, organizing for the fall carnival outreach and putting together the team member bios for the engineering notebook.
Let’s keep the momentum moving forward!
Building Team
Check out this playlist of build ideas, takes notes and be ready to prototype, discuss and build.
Programming Team
BRING YOUR LAPTOP TO THE MEETING!
Click here to open the FTC Android Studio setup wiki.
Extra Assignments — > Being a programmer is not easy! But once you get started the right way, you will find this to be a very rewarding experience. Our goal is to work as a team to discover the java code we will need to accomplish specific tasks. Remember, the building team will be physically putting things together, but you guys will be making this all work together.
Start watching this tutorial playlist. This is short and easy to follow. If you want to be a programmer, you need to learn the basic!!! This will get us started in the right directions with the java terminology and language.
Monday and Wednesday we are meeting 6-7:30.
The team has started putting together the presentation for their project.
We will continue to polish that this week.
Core Values Team Leads will be working with the team to compile information for the Core Values poster.
Cameron and Noah are very close to completing two missions.
Thomas is working diligently on an attachment for the lander mission.
We need to work on our robot design a bit more this week to stabilize our sensors.
We have two weeks until the team presents their project to the School Board and Sponsors and Four weeks to get as many missions polished as possible.
Please come focused and ready to work.
Team meeting Wednesday 6-730pm.
The groups spent time practicing programming their WeDo robot Milo.
They are using block programming to determine the length and speed Milo will travel as well as learning how to reverse direction, pause, and repeat their program.
Afterward we talked about getting and storing water on the moon and they used Lego and Milo to show how they would transport and store any frozen water collected from moon craters.
Next week we will begin to design the Moon Base.
PLEASE NOTE: FLL JR EXPO HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR MARYSVILLE ON SATURDAY NOV 10TH.
Application are open for FRC team members. Look like we have full roster for FTC and FLL. If you did not fill the applicaiton please do so by using the link below.
If you have a friend interested in joining the First Robotics Competition (FRC) High School level team, make sure they submit the application using the following link. –> Algonac Robotics Student Application
Woman’s Life Paint Sip and Dip!
Thank you to the Woman’s Life Insurance #883 for the fundraiser! They raised $392.00 and donated the entire amount to the club!
Fall Sponsorship Drive
Business team is collecting addresses for a sponsorship mailing. If anyone has any businesses they want to add to the list they can send the info to algonacrobotics15@gmail.com
Working for Ford?
We are actively looking for a parent or family members that is working for Ford. There is a great grant program available for us to apply, but we must have a Ford employee as a coach/mentor. If you know someone that would be interested in becoming a mentor, please contact Coach Seb as soon as possible.
Each event listed below has a separate sign up for students to RSVP.
It is mandatory for FTC and FRC students to RSVP or you will not be allow to participate in the events.
This is very important for the coaches to know so we can plan ahead.
To sign up for an event, click on the link, sign in on signup genius and select one of the options for the upcoming events.
T-Shirt Canon Outreach
FTC and FRC team members to support the t-shirt canon at the football game. Sign up here –> Homecoming Game T-Shirt Canon 9/28/2018
Grand Rapids Girls Competition
Out of town events where only girls will be “touching” the robot. Open to boys and girls. Sign up here –> Grand Rapids Girls Competition 10/12-13
DTE Energy Robotics Expo.
Some of our team students will be presenting to about 100-150 business professionals on how we applied and incorporate continuous improvement and problem solving into our robot building. Lunch will be provided and then FTC and FRC robots will be demo and discussed with DTE employees in the afternoon. This is a great outreach to one of our sponsor.
Sign up here –> DTE Energy Robotics Expo
T-Shirt Canon Outreach
FTC and FRC team members to support the t-shirt canon at the football game. Sign up here –> Friday Night Light – 10/19
Next meeting is this Wednesday 6-9pm. See you all there!
This week we will start gearing up for the Grand Rapids events.
Deep Space Teaser has now been released! See any clues?
Weekly Schedule
This weeks meetings: Tuesday & Thursday 6 – 8pm;
Possibly Saturday 9am to 1pm.
Building Team
Check out this playlist of build ideas, takes notes and be ready to prototype, discuss and build.
Programming Team
Get started on the following steps. Not everyone will be on the same page for a few meetings as we are getting the laptops setup and other things lined up. Everyone should do the following in the same sequence. Once we all catch up, it will be a blast!!!!
1- Make sure you have a laptop with that can run Android Studio. If you do go to step 2. Extra laptop should be setup on Tuesday as the hard drive will be in and extra batteries are available. Coach Dave and Coach Corey will get you started. At this point, we should have a group on step 1 and a group on step 2.
2- Click here to open the FTC Android Studio setup wiki. Follow the instruction on that Table of Contents and work as a team. Make sure that everyone is at the same steps. Once everyone have a working laptop. Bring them up to speed by helping them catch up.
Extra Assignments — > Being a programmer is not easy! But once you get started the right way, you will find this to be a very rewarding experience. Our goal is to work as a team to discover the java code we will need to accomplish specific tasks. Remember, the building team will be physically putting things together, but you guys will be making this all work together.
Start watching this tutorial playlist. This is short and easy to follow. If you want to be a programmer, you need to learn the basic!!! This will get us started in the right directions with the java terminology and language.
Monday and Wednesday we are meeting 6-7:30.
Building, coding, attachments!
Thursday after school we will meet with Mrs. Porter the school Social Worker about our project. Meeting will last approximately 30 minutes.
Don’t forget the information that you have gathered about your chosen topic from our meeting last Wednesday.
Team meeting Wednesday 6-730pm.
Last week the teams built their spacecraft!
Each teammate had a job: builder, checker, navigator, and locator. Everyone had a chance to do each job and the teamwork was amazing!
We also discussed items we would need such as energy, air, food, and water sources.
This week, we will introduce our moving element and begin designing our moon base.
Meeting on Wednesday 6-730pm.
Saturday was a great day and game was finally revealed. It look like it will be pretty exciting! Love that we are reusing past game elements!
Great outreach from Roborats at the football game with the t-shirt canon!
Application are open for FRC team members. Look like we have full roster for FTC and FLL. If you did not fill the applicaiton please do so by using the link below.
If you have a friend interested in joining the First Robotics Competition (FRC) High School level team, make sure they submit the application using the following link.
Algonac Robotics Student Application
Next fundraisers opportunities is with the Woman’s Life #883 as they are doing a fundraisers for us. It is a Sip Dip and paint at the Algonac VFW hall on 9/21. See flyers for more details. Please invite as many people as you can!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2466119743413307&set=a.101984219826883&type=3&theater
Business team is collecting addresses for a sponsorship mailing. If anyone has any businesses they want to add to the list they can send the info to algonacrobotics15@gmail.com
We are actively looking for a parent or family members that is working for Ford. There is a great grant program available for us to apply, but we must have a Ford employee as a coach/mentor. If you know someone that would be interested in becoming a mentor, please contact Coach Seb as soon as possible.
Click the links below to sign up for the upcoming events.
If you plan on attending the Grand Rapids Girls Competition, use the sign up genius below to RSVP. As of today only 6 students are participating.
Grand Rapids FRC Girls Competition – 10/12/2018-10/13/2018
Next meeting is this Wednesday 6-9pm. See you all there!
This week’s meetings: Tuesday & Thursday 6-8pm
Rover Ruckus has been launched and we are excited to start designing and prototyping.
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Project: Have your team identify a human physical or social problem faced during long duration space exploration within our Sun’s solar system and propose a solution.
The team narrowed their focus to two topics faced during long duration space exploration. Oxygen, and Anxiety. These are still very broad topics. The plan was to research problems and solutions in these two areas that currently exist. Then brainstorm ways to improve upon an existing solution or a completely innovative solution.
Monday each team member will share what they found in their Field Research from the last meeting.
What are three interesting facts you learned about the problem?
Are there any solutions that currently exist for this problem and why aren’t they working well enough?
What are three possible ways to improve the existing solutions? What ideas do you have for completely new solutions to the problem?
Monday we will also be continuing Robot build and Mission Planning. Wednesday the team will choose their research project topic.
I would love to include more parents in our team meetings. I have created a sign-up genius for the rest of the meetings. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409084aaca72aa7f85-parent
Last week was FLL Jr’s first official meeting. We talked about core values and the kids wrote and drew a picture spotlighting the core value that means the most to them.
The kids were divided into three teams and chose their team names.
Next week, the teams will discuss what they need to bring to the moon. They will also be building their spacecraft.
Saturday was a great day and game was finally revealed. It look like it will be pretty exciting! Love that we are reusing past game elements!
Application are open for FRC team members. Look like we have full roster for FTC and FLL. If you did not fill the applicaiton please do so by using the link below.
If you have a friend interested in joining the First Robotics Competition (FRC) High School level team, make sure they submit the application using the following link.
Algonac Robotics Student Application
Next fundraisers opportunities is with the Woman’s Life #883 as they are doing a fundraisers for us. It is a Sip Dip and paint at the Algonac VFW hall on 9/21. See flyers for more details. Please invite as many people as you can!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2466119743413307&set=a.101984219826883&type=3&theater
Next fundraisers opportunities will be for water bottle as soon as school start. This will be to install water bottle filling station by the gym at both Algonquin and the high school.
Business team is collecting addresses for a sponsorship mailing. If anyone has any businesses they want to add to the list they can send the info to algonacrobotics15@gmail.com
We are actively looking for a parent or family members that is working for Ford. There is a great grant program available for us to apply, but we must have a Ford employee as a coach/mentor. If you know someone that would be interested in becoming a mentor, please contact Coach Seb as soon as possible.
Click the links below to sign up for the upcoming events.
Team will be at the Friday night football game with the t-shirt cannon! Please use the sign up genius to RSVP. If nobody sign up, we will have to cancel.
Friday Night Light T-Shirt Canon – 9/14/2018
If you plan on attending the Grand Rapids Girls Competition, use the sign up genius below to RSVP. As of today only 6 students are participating.
Grand Rapids FRC Girls Competition – 10/12/2018-10/13/2018
Please remember no open toes shoes or sandals allowed in the lab.
Sign up available for the FRC Girls Competition in Grand Rapids. This will be an overnight trip and a weekend to remember. Please sign up as needed to ensure we have enough people going. Deadline to sign up is extended to 9/12/2018.
Boys are allowed to come and cheer our team and provide assistance in the pit without touching the robots.
Next meeting is this Wednesday 6-9pm. See you all there!
This week’s meetings: Tuesday & Thursday 6-8pm
Rover Ruckus has been launched and we are excited to start designing and prototyping.
Watch the game video again and again:
Download and study game manual here: https://goo.gl/BF3DsU
New members bring in signed last 5 pages from the member handbook.
Use the game pieces that Coach Seb handed out and prototype some mechanisms using stuff from around the house to pick up, carry or transfer the game pieces from one place to another.
Research on YouTube, looking for Rover Ruckus in 2 days and see what those teams have come up with. Also search for First Res-Q and see what teams used to pick up these same game pieces.
If you are interested in learning Solidworks 3D CAD modeling, check out this playlist which explains what Solidworks is and has a few tutorial videos: https://goo.gl/ivkXGV
If you have access to a laptop that you would like to run Solidworks on, bring it in this week and we will get Solidworks loaded up.
2 members from each sub-team will be chosen each meeting to take notes for the engineering notebook. No exceptions.
Programming Team –> Bring your laptop on Tuesday and we will set the SDK and needed software to get us started right away.
Project-
Mentor: Shelby
Team Leaders: Thomas, Katie M. and Steven
Robot Design-
Mentor: Katie E.
Team Leaders: Cameron and Danny
Core Values-
Mentor: Lindsey
Team Leaders: Noah and Isla
Project: Have your team identify a human physical or social problem faced during long duration space exploration within our Sun’s solar system and propose a solution.
The team Decided to focus on First Aid and/or Physical and Mental Health in Space.
Monday each team member will share what they found in their Field Research from the last meeting.
1. What are three interesting facts you learned about the problem?
2. Are there any solutions that currently exist for this problem and why aren’t they working well enough?
3. What are three possible ways to improve the existing solutions? What ideas do you have for completely new solutions to the problem?
Monday we will also be continuing Robot build and Mission Planning.
FLL Jr had a successful Information night and all of the kids are excited to get started this week. Parents need to turn in any missing paperwork on Wednesday. We are excited to blast off with Mission Moon 🙂
First official meeting this Wednesday 6-730pm.
Today was the 2018 FTC Rover Ruckus reveal and the team so far seems very excited for this seasons game. As well the team has been coming up with some amazing designs for this seasons robot.
From what we have discussed we are thinking of using treads for a replacement for the wheels and we are also thinking of having more than one arm to help use climb which we think it will make the robot more stable climbing.
This is about to get exciting! First week of school, and FTC game reveal next Saturday.
The newsletter is how we will communicate important info on a weekly basis. Please make sure you are reading each one and if you have any questions, contact one of the Coaches.
Our program is growing and we have more students this year than ever before, just by registration, we have full FLL and FTC roster already and we are expanding with two FLL Jr team.
Application are open for FRC team members. Look like we have full roster for FTC and FLL.
If you have a friend interested in joining the First Robotics Competition (FRC) High School level team, make sure they submit the application using the following link.
Algonac Robotics Student Application
Next fundraisers opportunities will be for water bottle as soon as school start. This will be to install water bottle filling station by the gym at both Algonquin and the high school.
Business team is collecting addresses for a sponsorship mailing. If anyone has any businesses they want to add to the list they can send the info to algonacrobotics15@gmail.com
We are actively looking for a parent or family members that is working for Ford. There is a great grant program available for us to apply, but we must have a Ford employee as a coach/mentor. If you know someone, please contact Coach Seb as soon as possible.
As you read this newsletter, contact Coach Seb using Basecamp or remind! Students #12 and #25 to contact me will receive a special prize at their next meeting.
Click the links below to sign up for the upcoming events.
Friday Night Light T-Shirt Canon – 9/14/2018
Friday Night Light T-Shirt Canon – 9/28/2018
Grand Rapids FRC Girls Competition – 10/12/2018-10/13/2018
Friday Night Light T-Shirt Canon – 10/19/2018
Sign up available for the FRC Girls Competition in Grand Rapids. This will be an overnight trip and a weekend to remember. Please sign up as needed to ensure we have enough people going. Deadline to sign up is 9/8/2018.
Our first official season meeting is this Wednesday 6-9pm. See you all there!
Are you ready for this season?
Tuesday 9/4/18 – Back to school NO MEETING
Thursday 9/6/18 – All Team Meeting 6pm-8pm
Saturday 9/8/18 – Rover Ruckus Game Reveal 11am-3pm Parents are welcome to attend.
Lunch will be provided.
Wednesday 6-7:30.
Please bring sources to support your choice for the project area you are most interested in. We need to narrow down to our top choice to start researching what is being done now and what you will choose as an innovative solution to develop.
Remember your top five area were, air/O2, Space Suit, Water, Food, and First Aid/Physical or Mental Health.
Pick one and be prepared to share why that should be our area of focus.
Letter have been received and students are very excited about this program.
Parents, Coaches and Mentors meeting on Wednesday 9/5 @6pm to discuss season program, roles and responsibilities.
