The FRC team is working on moving to a new website.
follow us at http://JoesAverageSlackers.com (now: https://frc4093.com/)
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Last Chance Before Kickoff
[ NOTE: Date changed to Wednesday Jan 2nd ]
Don’t forget, we’re having our last meeting before the FRC Season kick-off on Wednesday January 2nd at 7:00-8:30pm. The meeting will be at the Cooperative Extension office on the county fairgrounds.
If you are high-school aged (14 to 18) in any of the Orleans County School districts, and are interested in participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition season (Starting January 5th through March 2nd). Please plan on attending this meeting.
IF students have not registered, please visit https://my.usfirst.org/stims/site.lasso and sign up as a team member TODAY!
Parents: When your children apply to the team, you will receive an email from STIMS to activate your account. You will then be able to complete your student’s FIRST Consent & Release Form. This NEEDS to be done before next week.
Congratulations to our 4-H FLL team, which won the Robot Design Award at the Churchville-Chili qualifying tournament. In addition, they won a spot at the Championship Tournament on December 9th at the University of Rochester.
The kids also made the front page of the Medina Journal on November 15th. You can check that out Here
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FRC Safety Animation Contest
Anyone who is interested, the FRC 2013 “Safty Animation” contest has started, and entries are due by the middle of December. Anyone interested in participating can find information here:
2013 Safety Animation Contest: 2013 Safety Animation contest details are now available: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/safety-video-and-manual. The submission portal in STIMS opens today, 10/11/12 at 12 pm ET and will remain open until Friday, 12/13/12 at 12 pm ET.
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This years FLL Challenge
As mentioned at Wednesday’s meeting, here is a link to the FLL challenge PDF file: FLL 2012 Rules
you can also find additional information on the
2012 Senior Solutions page.
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FRC Reorganization meeting
The first meeting of the FRC Season (for Students Grades 9-12) is in a couple weeks.
This meeting will be for all returning members and anyone interested in joining us for 2012-2013 Season. ADULTS (mentors old and new) and STUDENTS (Grades 9-12) are invited.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2ND 7:00PM – 9:00PM
At the Orleans County Fairgrounds. In the FAIR OFFICE BUILDING or the EDUCATION CENTER (TBA)
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September FLL meetings
Mark your calendars now…. FLL meetings will be held at the fair office building on the Orleans County Fairgrounds.
Wednesday, September 26th – 6:30-8:00pm (Forms for Parents to sign – please stay)
AND
Saturday, September 29th – 10:00 until Noon — Field Set Up – Obstacle building Meeting.
New members (4th to 8th graders) are welcome to come and see what our First Lego League team will be working on.
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Orleans County Robotics Calendar
We’ve wrapped up our first FRC season, but still have a number of activities for the rest of the year.
You can see upcoming events on the right-hand side of this screen, but perhaps you’d like to add the calendar to your phone (Android or iPhone).
here is the link to the “ICS” format calendar:
https://lego.wiksclan.com/calendar.ics
Instructions for adding the calendar to an iPhone.
Android phones should be able to “subscribe” to our calendar from your google calendar (under “other calendars” on the left hand side of the screen, select “add by URL”, and enter the URL: https://lego.wiksclan.com/calendar.ics )
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Where Did Time Go?
I just realized that my last post to this site was January 9th. Two days after Kick-Off. Today, it is One WEEK past stop build day. All I can really think of is WOW! I am wowed, amazed, flabergasted and completely impressed that a group of boys that did not know each other two or three months ago, became a real TEAM and created a working robot, that will, in fact, accomplish the challenge laid out for them 6 or so weeks ago. Rookie Team 4093’s robot, sits in its bag at the build site, taunting us. It will not come out to play until practice day, March 8th!
Plans are taking shape for next year, brainstorming for new sponsors (how about you?) and fundraising opportunities has already begun. The team is growing by leaps and bounds, mentors needed (how about you?).
We invite you to come and see us at competition March 9th and 10th. It is free and open to the public. You will be completely hooked!
Let’s GO!
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Penfield Team Wins Award
Penfield’s “Rolling Thunder” team wins a community service award