Team members:

Samuel, Evan, Austin, Anthony, Max, Audrey, Derek, Ray, Melody

Agenda:

  • Action items check
  • GIGAWOT curriculum design (Samuel/Anthony)
  • Youth Robotics Fair preparation
    • Marketing status check
    • Volunteer training planning
    • Survey response review and updating
    • Site Layout
    • Prizes
    • Approved activity preparation document finalization
      • Evan/Abhishek
      • Abhishek/Amanda
      • Jerry/Max
      • Brandon/Ray
      • Max/Anthony
      • Justin/Austin
  • PTC CAD modeling QA
  • Youth robotics fair activity review and approval with Coach
    • Melody
    • Derek
    • Samuel/Anthony
    • Audrey
  • Team laptop setup
    • Brandon to setup Android Studio on Team laptop
  • Ongoing work check:
    • Engineering Notebook Cover Design (monthly)
    • Prezi presentation Design (monthly)
    • AutoDesk capability investigation (monthly)
    • Outreach activity leads status check (monthly)
    • Chassis study project video (monthly) — Evan/Max to review plan then explain to Coach
    • Chassis Study Work Engineering Notebook entry feedback (weekly)
    • Chassis Study Work issue discussions (weekly)
Action Items: (Blue means completed, Black means ongoing and Red means uncompleted)

General

  • Summer Ongoing work:
    • Audrey: Engineering Notebook Cover design
    • Amanda: prezi presentation as visual aid for in pit judging interview
    • Justin: study the AutoDesk capability in rendering the simulation and automation with PTC model
    • Max: create the video for community wide chassis study project

Outreach

  • General:
    • Everyone: indicating your availability for 6/29/2018 AT&T demo event
    • Everyone: fill in your preparation hours for the past events and YRF up to date
    • Audrey: complete the cover page design, by 2″ and 1.5″ white binders to finish the cover
  • GIGAWOT prepartion
    • Samuel: create Smart Home Robot activity outline
  • Youth Robotics Fair preparation
    • Actions needed for the preparation
      • Everyone: Continue marketing the event: mark it green as you complete it (should have all done as soon as possible)
      • Everyone: Finalize your volunteer section info by midnight Friday night. We will pull your info right before going to volunteer training session on 5/19/2018 Saturday morning.
      • Jerry: update and finish the signs for each activity (add in the sign for reserving the space for the competitor usage of the programming section)
      • Samuel: prepare the Survey form info page with Raffle drawing prize pictures (will be distributed to the visitors as they come in)
      • Evan/Abhishek: FTC Robot scrimmage and driving experience — final actions after reviewing
          • update the volunteer information
          • make sure Abhishek can cover the volunteer training
          • update scoring form
      • Abhishek/Amanda: Myoelectric Prosthetic Arm Experience — final actions after reviewing
        • Amanda to get familiar with the arm setup and running
      • Justin/Austin: Robo Sumo wrestling  — final actions after reviewing
        • Prepare the materials for the challenge
        • Update volunteer information as needed
      • Austin/Justin: Line follower contest — final actions after reviewing
        • Prepare the materials for the challenge
        • Update volunteer information as needed
      • Samuel/Anthony: Roomba virtual challenge — final actions after reviewing
        • clean up the preparation doc with finalized steps
      • Jerry/Max: 3D design Challenge  — final actions after reviewing
        • print out the 6 copies of handout page for the participants (FTC model page)
      • Brandon/Ray: ipad RVW programming challenge — final actions after reviewing
        • confirm with Brandon if #4 and #5 challenges are working
      • Melody: Rubber Band Race Car — final actions after reviewing
        • update the volunteer information
        • update the technical points and add in picture of the example car
      • Derek: Spartan robot — final actions after reviewing
        • get familiar with code logic
        • add in a picture of the robot and IR emitter to the preparation doc
      • Max/Anthony: EV3 maze — final actions after reviewing
        • Anthony to add in the picture of UI screen of the tilt app and illustrating photos for the tilt actions
        • Max to get familiar with both EV3 controls
        • Max to update volunteer information as needed
      • Audrey: Machine learning with IBM Watson Assistant and Scratch (MakeMeHappy) — final actions after reviewing
        • Update the activity based on coach’s review feedback to guide the participants for three steps
        • Add pictures of scratch code snippet, example sprite images, IBM Watson assistant UI interface with training data example and testing
        • Coach to provide more IBM Watson assistant info to Audrey to get familiar with the technology

Technical

  • Derek/Audrey: send coach the BOM list for building
  • Anthony: use Tetrix sprockets in the modern robotics chassis
  • Everyone: log your entries to the April engineering notebook; continue for this week, you will log anything your learnt and resolved in PTC while working on your chassis model and a picture of the latest chassis model in the engineering notebook, Due midnight Friday night

8565 Pre-season Team Meeting #7 – 05/12/2018

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