J2IT Aurora FTC Robotics Team Blog: July 2012

Saturday, July 28, 2012

We have creadted a calendar of some of the next meetings and have decided on a frame work for some of those meetings.

Aug. 4th          Teleop for rover bots
Aug. 11th        Mock competition for rover bots
Aug. 18th        Start work on video ideas, PTC, teleop, and drive train.
Aug. 25th        Continuation of previous work
Sep. 8th           Challenge anoucement and brainstorming

July 28th Team Practice

At this meeting our team(group) finished our prototype bot. we added the wheels and the servo motors, we also put the battery and the nxt brick in place. we learned how to put the samantha on the robot, and how you should tuck the cable in the robot to prevent it from getting in the way of other things.

Our team name choices were Untitled 2 and T.b.d(to be determand) we have not decided yet but they are both awsome choice

Benjamin Ruiz

Monday, July 23, 2012

Ben Ruiz

Name: Benjamin Ruiz
Age: 12 Grade: 6

School: Harmon middle school

Benjamin Ruiz has just started working with F.T.C this year. Ben also builds and drivers robots. He was in the F.L.L composition and made it to the regional finals in the F.l.l. He is an awesome teammate..

Jaret Skonieczny

Jaret is one of J2IT’s programmer and also one of the team mentors to guide the aspiring young members. He enjoys videogames, hanging out with friends and going on outdoor trips. Jaret has done FLL and also has done FTC in the past. He also looks forward to having a great enjoyable season this year.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Name: Ian Doemling

Grade: 8

Team Job: Builder and Progam Tester

Biography:

Ian Doemling is one of J2IT's builders. Ian also tests many of the programs, ecspecially the driver controlled programs. Ian is 14 years old and grew up in the city of Pittsburgh, Pensylvania. At the age of 7 he moved to Aurora, Ohio. He loves math and science and excels in school. He was on an FLL Team for 1 year then moved to an FTC Team last year. This is his second yearon a FTC team. Ian loves to problem solve and build. He is in boy scouts and loves the outdoors.

FTC Summer Kick-off Event

Welcome to the new Aurora Robotics FTC Team (aka J2IT)

We are now team #6022 and everyone should come Saturday ready to discuss keeping or changing the team name.

Next practice will be Saturday July 21st at 9AM. Also all team profiles need to be completed by the end of practice this Saturday.

Congratulations to Ian as our new Team Captain, we look forward to your leadership this season.