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Week 3: Dedicated to S. Kathleen

1/28/2019

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This past week, our school community has grieved the loss of Sister Kathleen Brabson, our school president. We have come together as a community to remember her legacy, her love, and her compassion. One of our favorite stories of her was, every year, while sitting in our chapel, she would tell each and every one of us to look at the ceiling. To look at the many stars painted in chapel. And pick one. Keep it in your head. Your heart. Your soul. That we are forever imprinted in that chapel as our star will be there to represent us. 
We feel as though this story is a sign for us. That even in Deep Space, we can look for our star, and know we are home. And look around and see all the stars around us and know we are not alone and our sisterhood will forever stand beside us. 

With this news, we are also announcing that we will be dedicating this season to the memory of Sister Kathleen. Her love for the education of women, and STEM education is a passion embedded in our team, and encouraged by her support. We know that will her watching over us, no matter our season's outcome, that we are loved and supported by her every step of the way. Spes Messise in Semine, The Hope of the Harvest is in the Seed.

With that being said, Sister Kathleen's dedicated to hard work has allowed us to continue on and get back to work as Week 3 has come to a close. So we'll start off with our normal quick roundups!

Build: 
*You will be getting another bulleted list like last week #sorrynotsorry*
  • We finished one of our frames/drive trains for the robot!!!! #goingtonewheights ;)
  • Are using the X-Carve table to make LOTS of brackets for various reasons (too many to count)
  • Started prototyping ways to mount our arm mechanism
  • did way too much math trying to figure out if we had room to do an arm
    • figured out we in fact did have enough room
      • thanks math
  • realized we actually didn't have enough room for an electrical panel
  • extended frame to give more room for an electrical panel/easier access to mechanisms
    • as a PSA, we did have enough room for all these, it just wasn't ideal so we made the decision to go bigger
  • IM SORRY DID I MENTION HOW PRETTY OUR DRIVE TRAIN IS (watch the vlog to see it in action!)
  • Made another version of our hatch intake (we think we like this one the best!)
  • Made an intake that could do both field pieces
    • ehhhh it's okay
  • much more CAD! (Brigid is becoming a pro!)

Programming
Now like always I didn't write this section, but the text conversation that happened between Kate (Head Programmer and President) and I was too great not to include so enjoy:
Ellie: "hey k-dawg could you give me a brief overview of what happened in programmy land last week?"
Kate: "absolutely e-money:
This week, the sophomore and freshmen programming team built a whole electronic board! They wired up a roboRIO, radio, VRM, and a few Talons to get some practice before wiring the electronics 2019 robot, which they will be doing in the next few weeks. They also successfully got the gyro function of the navX working, which will be essential for any programs to be run autonomously during the sandstorm period. The Raspberry Pi subteam have managed to get images streaming from the Pi to the SmartDashboard and are now working towards finetuning GRIP programs in order to automate a hatch placement program."
Ellie: "I hate us"

Chairman's
The Chairman's team is making aamaaaaaaazing progress! They  have finished a working essay that could be submitted right NOW! That being said they believe they can sharpen it up a little, plus we want to add a few things! They have also made a concrete decision on what they want this year's theme to be and how they'll implement it! It's extremely cool and fits this year's aesthetic perfectlyyyyyy! Dariya and Lex have also started doing Dance Brainstorm Sessions where they express what topics they would like to include while showing off their best moves! These girls are ahead of year's previous and they're on track to making this season reach the stars!

Misc.
*More bullet points, yay!
  • Huge thanks to Johnson and Johnson for allowing us to come back for another demo!
    • They allow us to make our team the best possible and continue inspiring people to get involved in STEM!
  • We started our Team Robotics Class again!
  • Business Plan is making amaaaazing progress!
  • SHOUTOUT TO MR. LINTNER FOR NOT ONLY MAKING US A ROCKET BUT FOR MAKING A NEW X-CARVE TABLE WITH CUSTOM HANDLES!!!!!!!
  • played with bunnies!
  • uploaded a vlog!
  • Started our #FirebirdLegacy Challenge, where we will be showing off pictures from the last 20 years of our team!

Now that's all for this week, see you all next time! We're the 433 Firebirds and you're watching Disney Cha--. Whoops, wrong place, sorry! We're the 433 Firebirds and we're blasting off into DEEP SPACE!

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