April Meeting Schedule

April Meeting Schedule

Club Meeting
Attention students and parents, here is our meeting schedule for April 2017. Reminder: UPLINK does not begin until April 3rd, 2017. There will be no practice on March 31st, 2017.   Location Parents picking up their child early, note the change in room locations!  VEX IQ: Moved to Cafeteria instead of A3. VEX EDR: Room B9 or SHOP Times Practice will be cancelled on Friday, April 14th 2017 (Good Friday). Mondays (4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24) 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM Fridays (4/7, 4/21. 4/28) 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM There will be no weekend practices scheduled during the month of April. Please see our Calendar page for the most up to date meeting schedule.
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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…
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Club Meeting on September 26

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…
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Club Meeting on September 23

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!…
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Club Meeting on September 9th

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…
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Our First Robot & Club Reminders

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…
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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…
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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…
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Club Meeting on August 26th

Club Meeting
VEX will meet on August 26th, 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']   Meeting Objectives Build Team: Meeting Location - B9/SHOP: Richardson IQ: Construct base clawbot VRC: Construct base design Take inventory of the parts you are currently using on your robot Programmers: Meeting Location - A3: Kitagawa Review: motor and wait1Msec commands. Write a program that allows our robot to make a turn. Web Team: Meeting Location - A3: Kitagawa Complete CSS Course on Codecademy. Complete Interviews for student member profile page
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