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12Dec 2016 by wisrobotics

NOW SELLING! – Big Island Delights Gift Bag

fundraiser

Please support our robotics team by purchasing a Big Island Delights Gift Bag for $20.00! All proceeds will go towards helping our students travel to upcoming state tournaments and purchase additional parts for their robots! Contact Jon Kitagawa at Waiakea Intermediate School (jon_kitagawa@notes.k12.hi.us) or speak with one of our students! Each bag contains the following: Chocolate-dipped Fortune Cookie Package of Arare Package of Candy Popcorn Package of Li Hing Gummy Bears 4.5 oz. bag of Macadamia Nut Shortbread Delight Cookies 4.5 oz. bag of Macadamia Snowball Delight Cookies 6 oz. bag of Party Mix Delight 4 oz. Bag of Li Hing Mango The retail value of this gift bag is well over $20.00! Your Cost: $20.00 Pick up date: December 20th, 2016 4:00-6:00 pm at Waiakea Intermediate School 200 W Puainako…

04Dec 2016 by wisrobotics

Big Island Delights Fundraiser

fundraiser

Aloha parents, We will need volunteers to help package the gift baskets and other products from Big Island Delights for our winter fundraiser. After we package the products we will be able to sell them to raise money for travel and VEX supplies. Packaging nights: Date(s): Tuesday, December 6th Thursday, December 8th Time: 5:30 pm Place: Big Island Delights Corporate Office / Warehouse 400 Makalika St, Hilo, HI 96720

02Oct 2016 by wisrobotics

10/1/2016 Match Highlights: WIS Robotics Team at Kea’au Elementary School’s VEX IQ League

Match Highlights, VEX IQ

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCM625c6mA0[/embed] Waiakea Intemediate School competes with alliance partner Kea'au Middle School Drivers: Jonah Furuli and Alex Ogawa Team Burrito Photographer: Autumn O'Leary [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jfSoxtHG0w[/embed] Waiakea Intermediate School Competes with alliance partner Haili Christian School Drivers: Elijah Oliver and Casen Ishihara Team Taco Salad Photographer: Autumn O'Leary [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TATTJXLNyIs[/embed] Waiakea Intermediate School competes with alliance partner Nawahi Drivers: Jonah Furuli and Reyn Funai Team Burrito Photographer: Autumn O'Leary Congratulations to Team Burrito on their 5th place finish! Congratulations to Team Taco Salad on their 9th place finish! 31 Teams competed on 10/1/2016 at Kea'au Elementary School's VEX IQ Tournament

30Sep 2016 by wisrobotics

Club Meeting on September 30

Club Meeting

New Business: VEX IQ League #2: The following students will represent us at Kea'au Elementary School's VEX IQ League: TEAM BURRITO: Jonah Furuli Reyn Funai TEAM TACO SALAD: Elijah Oliver Casen Nishioka Reminders: October 4th is Sputnik Day, Waiakea Intermediate school will host WES and WWES to participate in rocket launching activities. Build Team: IQ TEAM: 2:30-2:50: Create a new claw for VEX IQ Burrito Bot 2:50-4:15: Practice driving on the VEX IQ field... tournament simulations. EDR TEAM: 2:30-2:50 Install battery and remote controls into EDR Robots 2:50-4:15 Design and build throwing mechanism. Programming Team: Assist the IQ Team as needed to practice for the tournament. Time permitting, work on autonomous code for final competition. Web Team: Write thank you letter to Hawaii Community Foundation for all of the materials…

26Sep 2016 by wisrobotics

Club Meeting on September 26

Club Meeting

New Business Kea'au IQ League #2 Excursion and registration forms are due today! Kea'au IQ League Tournament #2 will be held at Kea'au Elementary School from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM on Saturday, October 1st, 2016. Advisors will call parents to confirm attendance. IQ TEAM DRIVERS: IF you would like to practice driving, you may practice before school from 7:20-7:50, recess, and lunch periods. If you would like to practice during advisory, you may get your homeroom teacher's permission to come to A3. A note will be required. Sputnik Day Waiakea Intermediate School will host Waiakea Elementary and Waiakeawaena Elementary School on October 4th. 8th Grade students may be called to support our activity. Robotics T-Shirts Please make sure to bring in a plain white t-shirt to print your Robotics T-Shirt…

22Sep 2016 by wisrobotics

Club Meeting on September 23

Club Meeting

VEX will meet on September 23, 2016 at 2:30pm – 4:15pm. Please wait to be picked up from Uplink. New Business Kea’au IQ League #2 Our IQ Team needs six students to represent our teams at Kea'au Elementary's VEX IQ League on October 1st, 2016 from 8:00am-2:00pm. All students will take home a permission form and students who can commit to attending one or more events should check off the appropriate boxes. Excursion permission forms are due at our next club meeting (September 26,2016). Sputnik Day Waiakea Intermediate School will host a Science and Rocket Exploratory Event ("Sputnik Day") for Waiakea Elementary School and Waiakeawaena School on October 4th. We will need volunteer students to help organize and manage the event. Robotics T-Shirts The web team designed our Robotics T-Shirts!…

09Sep 2016 by wisrobotics

Club Meeting on September 9th

Club Meeting

VEX will meet on September 9th, 2016 at 2:30pm - 4:15pm. Please wait to be picked up from Uplink. New Business Web Logins: All team members will receive their log-in information for the WIS Robotics Website today. If you lose this log-in information you must email an advisor to reset the password ( BrushBot THINKFEST Thank you to the following club members for attending the BrushBot THINKFEST at Waiakea Elementary School on Wednesday September 9th, 2016: Yusef Tamimi, Alyxander Wakano, Carys Urasaki, Haily Greenwell, Kiyoshi Todd! Thank you to students who will be attending the BrushBot THINKFEST at Waiakea Intermediate School tonight. Kea'au IQ League Our IQ Build Team and Programmers are invited to attend the IQ Tournament at Kea'au Elementary School tomorrow on September 10th, 2016. We will not be competing…

04Sep 2016 by wisrobotics

Our First Robot & Club Reminders

Club Meeting

As a reminder VEX will not meet on Monday, September 5th, 2016 in observance of Labor Day. Our next meeting will be on Friday, September 9th, 2016 (the same day as our Brushbot ThinkFest)! See you there! Congratulations to the Programming Team on writing their first program using all of the motors on the VEX IQ Clawbot! Here is a video of their program in action! [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW-vOafgIoQ[/embed] Programmers: Elijah Oliver, Yusef Tamimi, Jonah Furuli Programmers, you may claim the "Curvy Road Ahead" Achievement Badge by uploading your RobotC File to the badge request page. Your RobotC File must have comments and be named with the proper conventions. Congratulations to the Build Team on completing their first Robot - The VEX IQ Clawbot! Builders, you may claim the "VEX IQ Clawbot" Achievement…

01Sep 2016 by wisrobotics

Club Meeting on September 2nd

Club Meeting

If DOE Public Schools are open, VEX will meet on September, 2016 at 2:30pm – 4:15pm. Please wait to be picked up from Uplink. ** All team members will receive their log-in information for the WIS Robotics Website. Build Team: Meeting Location – B9/SHOP: Richardson IMPORTANT: You must keep a daily log of your robot's progress; even if you are building the pre-designed clawbot you should have a journal entry for each day that you worked on the robot. IQ Team 1: Finish construction on base clawbot. IQ Team 2: Correct previous build. VRC: Construct base design Install brain component into the robot. Both teams: take inventory of the parts you are currently using on your robot [wpdm_package id='212'] [wpdm_package id='210'] Programmers: Meeting Location – A3: Kitagawa IQ Challenge Overview: Look over the competition…

27Aug 2016 by wisrobotics

Club Meeting on August 29th

Club Meeting

VEX will meet on August 29th, 2016 at 2:30pm – 4:15pm. Please wait to be picked up from Uplink. Reminder: turn in your brushbot thinkfest application! [wpdm_package id='86'] All team members who participate in the September 9th, 2106 Brushbot THINKFest event will earn this commemorative badge: Meeting Objectives Build Team: Meeting Location – B9/SHOP: Richardson IQ: Finish construction on base clawbot. VRC: Construct base design Install brain component into the robot. Both teams: take inventory of the parts you are currently using on your robot [wpdm_package id='212'] [wpdm_package id='210'] Programmers: Meeting Location – A3: Kitagawa Review commands: task main{ } setMotorSpeed(leftMotor, 50); sleep(1000); Learn commands to operate claw motor. Hands on: obstacle course. Web Team: Meeting Location – A3: Kitagawa Complete Interviews for student member profile page Edit interviews for student…