Archive for March, 2008

Soap Video Archives of Boilermaker 2008

Soap has the video archives up from Boilermaker:

http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2008/movies/in/

Our best match was MATCH 44, and the quarter finals

Just to re-cap, we where in the following matches:

MATCH 4
MATCH 11 (robot controller starts to go…)
MATCH 15 (robot controller fails at end of match…)
MATCH 22
MATCH 29
MATCH 38
MATCH 44
MATCH 53 (robot crashed into the back of us an bent our fork)
MATCH 57

QUARTER FINAL #2 MATCH 1 loss
QUARTER FINAL #2 MATCH 2 win
QUARTER FINAL #2 MATCH 3 loss

News Coverage of Boilermaker Regional

From the Herald-Press, 3/17/2008 

Team coaxes dead robot into action
Team THRUST didn’t win the weekend’s big prize, but its members did bring a brainless robot back to life - and impressed judges enough with their reaction to an accident during the initial building process to take home a safety award…
Read the full story with photo >>

Team 1501 Preview Video - Boilermaker Regional

Reminder Meeting: 6-7PM All Team Meeting

 Just a reminder there is an all team meeting tomorrow on Tuesday for 1 hour. 6-7PM.Also check out 868’s video. I thought we had the highest launch, I was wrong…

868 Video

Reminder Meeting: Scouts / Drivers on Monday 3-10 6-8PM

Next meeting will be Monday 3-10 from 6-8PM. We only need the SCOUT TEAM and DRIVE TEAM for this meeting. Everyone from the SCOUT TEAM and DRIVE TEAM, students and mentors should come if possible.

Keep in mind, we are meeting everyday this week.

Monday - scouts, drive team 6-8PM
Tuesday - ALL TEAM MEETING 6-7PM
Wednesday - Pit Crew 5PM-7PM (packs the trailer)
Thursday - PURDUE
Friday - PURDUE
Saturday - PURDUE