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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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PR Update
Alright guys, here’s the PR update of the week. We’ve now had our two introductory meetings for the freshmen and returning members, and are ecstatic about the results. Seventy five freshmen signed up! Add that to our returning members and we’re going to have a great time this year. Over the next…
Public Relations
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Mandatory Events This Week
A couple reminders: All students are required to attend the introductory meeting. They are on August 22nd and 23rd (come to one OR the other) from 3:00 to 4:00, in Sobrato Theater. These are mandatory meetings, as announced in the previous informational email. Vex Kickoff (similar to FRC kickoff…
Administrative
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FRC Fridays
As the new school year begins, all aspects of the Bellarmine Robotics Team go into full bloom. Along side other major subjects such as Finance, VEX, Graphic Design, and of course FRC. Soon we will be establishing FRC Fridays as a way for both new and old members to be introduced into FRC in the […]
FIRST Robotics
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VEX Prototyping Session
This past Wednesday several of our VEX leaders, both captains and sub-captains, met in the old VEX lab for a prototyping session. The session was extremely productive; the VEX leaders each tried different approaches to intaking game objects, trying different construction methods to see what worked…
VEX Robotics
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FRC Offseason Events
With the robotics season about to begin, Team 254 is set to attend two off season FRC tournaments for the 2012 game Rebound Rumble. Over the next few weeks we will begin preparing and packing for CalGames 2012, which is scheduled to begin October 12th. As the only local FRC tournament in the fall…
FIRST Robotics
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Upcoming Intro Meetings
There are two upcoming meetings introducing 254 robotics to potential recruits on the following days: Wednesday August 22nd Thursday August 23rd At these meetings we will showcase our 2011-2012 basketball shooting robot Skyfire as well as give important information about the team.
FIRST Robotics · Public Relations · VEX Robotics
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Website redesign
As you may have noticed, the Team 254 website has been redesigned significantly. We’ve been working hard on updating it to modern web design standards, improving content, and reorganizing the site to be more logical. We hope that users find the site easier to navigate and more visually pleasing.…
Administrative
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PR Update
This week we went to Diversity Day, and had an open lab for freshman to attend. Both were huge successes. At diversity day, we had approximately 100 people stop by to see the robot, as well as many who got to play with it. At the open lab, we had about 60 people attend, 24 of which […]
Public Relations
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Summer Wrap-Up
We had a very busy past week, with two outreach events/demos. On Wednesday, we had a Diversity Day event at NASA. We had a great turnout. Thank you to everyone who attended. We were able to show a lot of people our robot and many were impressed. A picture of us demoing the robot is […]
Administrative
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Hall of Fame on Display
Team 254’s hall of fame display is on display in the brand new Lorry I Lokey Center at Bellarmine. The display is right by the front door, just to the left of the principal’s office.
2011 FRC Build Season
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World Champion T-Shirts
This is the final design for the world champion t-shirts that were ordered today. The shirts should come in early next week on like tuesday.
2011 FRC Build Season
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CNN FIRST Documentary
Last night, “Don’t Fail Me: Education in America” aired on CNN. This documentary featured FIRST extremely heavily and Team 254 is featured in the final few minutes. If you’re interested in watching it, it can be found on Youtube in 6 parts. Part one is here and the remaining 6 parts are posted by…
2011 FRC Build Season