Our first engineering club meeting of the 2014 - 2015 school year!
Seniors have Engineering Development and Design 8th period in the Engineering Room, and since all of us in that class are in club, we are now in charge of getting set up for club. It's not hard, just writing stuff on the board and printing out hand outs, setting out snacks. Pretty easy, and we were all excited for our first meeting, but we weren't expecting what would happen next. Every year, we lose seniors and (hopefully) gain freshmen. The club size, however, has always stayed around the same size; between 8 and 14 people. Last year we thought we were doing well for ourselves when four more soon to be sophomores joined towards the end of the year.
So imagine our shock when ten new freshmen walked into Room 162! The pictures above were taken during our introductions and welcoming 'speeches'. I write speeches, but not many of us are very publicly speaking inclined. So mostly officers making beginning of the year remarks and Mr. Spak giving his annual Club Manifesto speech. Once that was done, we began discussing who wanted to do robotics this year. Eight out of the ten rookies wanted in. Last year, we decided teams should be no more than six people; 1-2 designers, 1-2 programmers, 1 logger, 1 driver, 1-2 builders and 1-2 scouts. One person could fill multiple positions, or one person could be trained to fill only one position. We didn't want more than 2 rookies per team if we could avoid it, and we wanted at least one veteran on every team. This may or may not cause our previously planned teams to break up, so that is first order of business next week. We will meet again next Tuesday; we decided to move straight into pre-competition season meetings this year (Tuesdays in addition to Thursdays) and hopefully soon we will move into competition meetings (3:30 - 6:00 as opposed to 3:30 - 5:00). Stay posted for team selections!
-Erica Kraus Club Secretary
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