1st Official Robotics Meeting of 2019/2020, Thursday, 9/5/19

Date: Thursday, September 5th
Agenda: 1st official Meeting of the year! 
In Attendance: Mentor Aidan, Hayden, Sean, Liam, Tristan, Connie, Lilly, Coach Cynde, Coach Chad 
Note Taker: Sean
Tasks: Dismantle last year’s robot, Move in robotics equipment and arrange the room, discuss plans for travel to FTC Skystone Kickoff
Reflection: Our space is more limited this year because of sharing the room with the high school band, but we will make the best of it! With the construction that is coming at the grade school, next year, we will have a dedicated Robotics/Technology room!! We are very excited about that! So, this year, we manage the room space as best we can and we will set up our practice mat on the stage when we are ready to drive. 
We have asked the school for two new laptops - one for programming and travel and the other for social media, FTC blog, 3D printing and research. The current 3D printer will be there, too. We will have two tables near the shelves, so that we have room for multiple people to sit and work on the computers. We will have one of the long tables in front of the whiteboard so that we can have out tool boxes open and available and workspace and design. We will keep one central table for current building

A group of us worked on dismantling last year’s robot and keeping the electronics basically together. We need to order the new JST PH to JST XH cables from ServoCity so we can replace the cables that need the converters. Coach Cynde will order them. We discussed mounting the Rev Expansion hubs to a wooden side to maximize central space within the robot and help minimize Electrostatic discharge. We have never had trouble with ESD until we made it to State last year. This year, we will do everything we can to protect our robot from ESD.

We took some time to discuss with lily what FIRST Tech Challenge is and what her role can be on the team. We also discussed how we might recruit more team mates.