8565 Pre-season Team Meeting #11 – 6/9/2018

Team members:

All except Amanda and Melody

Agenda:

• Action items check
• Review Iron Reign example and out community outreach Reflection writeups
• GIGAWOT curriculum design
  • smart home mobile computing (Samuel/Anthony)
  • Lego RCX chassis activity with prebuilt programs (Anthony’s robo sumo logic verification)
  • Machine learning demo
• EV3 Summer Camp teaching duty assignment
• Summer Chassis work overall status update (Coach)
  • Project Progress report tool – Gantt chart
• Summer Chassis work individual chassis BOM List review

General

• Summer Ongoing work
  • Amanda: prezi (or any good tool) 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:
  • Brandon, Abhishek, Audrey: indicate your availabilities for FTC workshop date

• Reflection on all of our outreach activities so far (follow 6832 examples):
  • Derek/ Anthony: significant update
  • Melody/Brandon/Amanda/Austin/Samuel: no updates required
  • Others: minor updates required per comment during the meeting
• Award judging session improvement
  • Abhishek/Samuel: send technology company presentation videos to team
  • Everyone: watch the videos that Abhishek/Samuel sent
  • Senior team members: look for/connect to people in companies that we can connect with for reaching up in our outreach
  • Max: research real technology company engineering notebooks and bring some examples/ideas for out notebook
• GIGAWOT preparation
  • Samuel: Improve the curriculum slides based on meeting discussion
  • Anthony: complete the first version of the MIT App Inventor app fully tested end to end (see items noted in the slides for you to do this week)
  • Anthony: initial version Robo Sumo program, download to both EV3 and test out in the robo sumo ring (you need to come to take the ring home to test)
  • Audrey: practice the machine learning demo examples (to be demoed to the team on 6/30 team meeting)
• EV3 Summer Camp preparation
  • Younger member: I uploaded all course slides/videos to the dropbox, you can get your session slides and get familiar with it, You are welcome to further improve it. I will schedule session review with you and your instructor mentor based on team meeting availabilities

Technical

• Everyone: Update your status on Gantt chart before next team meeting
• Everyone: put your CAD model files to GrabCAD per the version structure from Justin. If you are not clear, please contact him
• Justin: report on whose chassis models still missing in GrabCAD under the proper version folder before next team meeting. We want to wrap up the CAD stage to focus on building stage
• Jerry/Coach/Li Huan/Yibing: Close BOM list issues
• Everyone: start building your chassis
• Everyone: Update your Joint Engineering notebook with your best skills (Due Friday night midnight)
• Audrey: send engineering notebook entry evaluation comment on Saturday before team meeting, copy all parents. We will correct right away during team meeting, the team members can only go home after it is corrected. You will help track, they can only leave with your sign off on the engineering notebook entry
• Samuel: Update executive summery on the joint engineering notebook about the two categories of the chassis to be studied and chassis specific test as Test 8
• Brandon: Update test spec per the comments from Iron Reign
• Max: Edit video for the kick off and june meeting; update the video plan
• Max: design side plate for the Robot