Events/Meetings

We will be meeting and watching the official challenge video that FIRST releases for FRC. They will also publish a rule book (game manual) which we will go through, and then start to brainstorm ideas and strategies. This is the single most important day in all 6 weeks of build season, because it sets us up with ideas and gives us a plan to follow. The meeting will end around 5 pm, with a break in the middle for lunch. On Sunday, we will be taking the rules and scoring mechanics learned and turning ideas generated into designs and prototypes. We highly encourage everyone to come to this meeting, because it is necessary to fully understand the game in order to build a successful robot, and the ideas that you propose during brainstorming could become our final design.

Thanks for coming, everyone!

Team 15468 White has their first Turing league event at Mount Si High School (9200 Railroad Ave SE, Snoqualmie WA 98065).

Event: We will have 3-4 hrs of game time, 1 hr for inspection/setup and 45 min for lunch. Each team will be playing five (5) matches. A moving robot will be great anything else is gravy. Teams do score (gain points) by being there. Be sure that your team is using the latest software and firmware. There will be quite a few experienced coaches and mentors onsite to inspect and help.

This year, the Girls Generation competition is being held at Tahoma Senior High School (23499 SE Tahoma Way, Maple Valley, WA 98038). Girl's Generation is an off-season event for the girls of FRC. It is a replay of the 2018 FRC game Power Up.

Schedule:

• (6:30) Volunteer check in & unloading at sidewalk
• (7:00) Doors open & team check in
• (7:45 – 8:00) Driver Meeting
• (8:30 - 12:00) Opening Ceremonies & Morning Matches
• (12:00) Girl group picture on field
• (12:00 – 12:45) Lunch
• (12:45 – 3:30) Afternoon Matches
• (3:45) Alliance Selection
• (4:15) Semi Finals Start
• (5:00) Finals Start
• (5:30) Awards

Food info from coordinators:
"Our booster club will have concessions for sale such as candy bars, soda, chips and water for $1 each. They will also be selling a lunch consisting of a grilled hamburger, chips and a soda for $5. There are also several fast food restaurants and grocery stores close to the school."

Salmon Days is from Saturday to Sunday! We have a robotics booth with Issaquah Robotics Society (FRC1318) on the patio behind city hall. Sign up on the spreadsheet in our Discord server.

Location: Seattle Christian School in SeaTac, WA.
Website: offseason.apexfrc.com
Roster of teams: The Blue Alliance

The party is in room 1406 (block classroom).

Parents and family invited! Please bring food!

More information on this later.

Meet in the build room after 2nd period (12:00). We'll load into the buses at around that time.

We will be staying at Paramount Hotel Portland until Saturday 4/7.

Information from the event coordinator:
This is a commercial venue that does not allow teams to bring in their own food. Please respect this. There is a very large courtyard area where you can set up team meals. You will need to leave food in your vehicles until lunch time and then pull it out to set up in the courtyard. I was told this morning that the venue will be VERY strict with this rule. Bags will be searched and no food will be allowed. There will be concessions available and you will likely still be able to order boxed lunches if you fill out the form ASAP. If you have special dietary needs, I recommend bringing your own food and keeping it in the car until lunch. Bags at the venue: No bags larger than 14 x 14 x 6 will be allowed in the building with one exception. Participants (students and some mentors) will be given wristbands at check in. If you are wearing a wristband, you will be allowed to bring a larger bag into the venue. The participants will need to keep their wristband for the entire event we will not have additional wristbands to hand out if people lose them.

At Auburn Mountainview High School.

We will display our yoga ball bot at Cascade Ridge Elementary School.

We will display our yoga ball bot at Endeavour Elementary School.

At Mount Vernon High School.

We will display our yoga ball bot at Creekside Elementary School.

Set up is at 5 pm, but the event starts at 6 pm.

More details on the Issaquah School District website.

We will display our yoga ball bot at Discovery Elementary School.

First day of build season!

Meet us in the SHS Upper Commons for a fun night with a ton of food and learning about robotics!

Admissions are $7 with ASB card and $10 without.

If you would like to contribute and bring food, sign up here.

In the SHS Lower Commons.

We'll show our yoga ball bot at the Science Symposium at the Issaquah Community Center (301 Rainier Blvd. S. Issaquah, WA 98027).

In addition to local high school robotics teams, the science symposium will also host the Issaquah Youth Advisory board. It'll be a fun night of engineering and science!

If you're not volunteering with the Spartabots, there's a $15 entrance fee for Issaquah residents and a $18 fee for non-residents. If you're a robotics member, feel free to come!

This Girl's Generation competition is hosted by Team 2046, Bear Metal at Maple View Middle School (18200 SE 240th St, Kent, WA 98042).

Girl's Generation is an off-season event for the girls of FRC. It is a replay of the 2017 FRC game Steamworks.

Assigned volunteers will be given t-shirts. Team 2046's booster club will be selling a lunches consisting of a hamburger (or two hot dogs), chips and a soda for $5. They'll also sell snacks (candy bars, chips, soda and water) for $1 each. There are also several fast food restaurants and grocery stores about 10 minutes from the school.

This is the proposed schedule for the day:

We have a booth at the Salmon Days festival this year! Here's the the map to the festival booths so you can find ours (booth #166).

At the Downtown Issaquah Association (Main Street Issaquah, 232 Front St N, Issaquah).
Salmon days website

We have a booth at the Salmon Days festival this year! Here's the the map to festival booths so you can find ours (booth #166).

At the Downtown Issaquah Association (Main Street Issaquah, 232 Front St N, Issaquah).
Salmon days website

Peak Performance is an off-season FRC event hosted by Apex Robotics. The one-day competition is a replay of the 2017 FRC game Steamworks.

Peak Performance is held in Seattle Christian School (18301 Military Rd S, SeaTac, WA 98188). Hope to see you there!

Join us for a fun evening of gym activities, food, and games! We're having a potluck - bringing food is much appreciated!

We are hosting a LEGO robotics competition between Pine Lake MS and Beaver Lake MS in the Upper Commons of Skyline. You are welcome to come support the middle schoolers and help out with running the event. Please wear your Spartabots t-shirt.

Let's celebrate this year with a potluck style banquet! This banquet will probably be held at Skyline HS. We will be announcing the appointed board positions and celebrating our members, mentors and parents!

Please RSVP here.

At Glacier Peak High School.

List of other participating teams at The Blue Alliance.

At Glacier Peak High School.

List of other participating teams at The Blue Alliance.

At Auburn Mountainview High School.

List of other participating teams at The Blue Alliance.

At Auburn Mountainview High School.

List of other participating teams at The Blue Alliance.

This will take place at Skyline HS in rooms 1212 and 1214, which are right next to our build room. Kickoff marks the beginning of the design and build season. We will:

• watch the kickoff video explaining the details of this year's competition
• go over our strategy for the game
• design parts for the robot

We would love it if parents could provide snacks or lunch for the students. If you are able to bring food, please email [email protected] with what you will bring. Thank you!

In the Upper Commons. This robotics expo will include things like:

• Driving a robot
• Food
• Raffles
• Silent auctions
• Educational booths

It costs $8 for students and $10 for adults. We hope to see you there!

Sign up here and turn in the field trip form as soon as possible to Mr. Parker in Portable 8. If your parent is willing to drive, then also turn in the driver form.
It's important that everyone attends to both cheer on our girls and to get more experience in a competition setting.

Where to go and what to do

Be at Skyline HS by 6 am at the tennis courts. We'll make sure everyone has the necessary forms before heading to Tahoma High School. The trip takes about 40 minutes. The competition itself starts at 8, but we'll start setting up at 7.

Sign up here
Skyline Robotics has a booth for this event, so we need people to sign up and spread the news about our club to the incoming freshmen.

Sign up here
Please try to spread out the times so that the booth always has two or three people but no more than four.

Sign up here
Please try to spread out the times so that the booth always has two or three people but no more than four.

We will head over to the skate and big screen event to show off our robot.

This event is taking place in the Sammamish commons.

Our team will go to Beaver Lake Middle School to encourage incoming freshman to join robotics club.

We will meet in the BLMS front parking lot (near the front office) and check into the office before showing our robots and giving them more information about our club.

The local Kiwanis Club is hosting an auction event on May 6 (Friday), from 6:00 - 9:30 PM. They're looking to help fundraise a local youth group, and will donate $350 to our club for 6-8 people to help cleanup. We'd come at 9:45 and help load chairs and tables, and other miscellaneous cleanup work. It's expected to take 1.5 - 2 hours, but more students would speed up the process.

Address: Pickering Barn in Issaquah - 1730 10th Ave NW, Issaquah, WA 98027
If you want more information about the event, here's a link: http://bootsbarrelsandbrews.com/

FRC Kickoff marks the beginning of the design and build season. Teams have the opportunity to meet at "local" Kickoffs to compare notes, get ideas, make friends, find mentoring teams, learn the game, pick up the Kit of Parts, and get geared up for the exciting competition season.

View the LIVE broadcast Saturday, January 3 at 7:15 am PT

For more information, please visit usfirst.org's FRC kickoff web page