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2016 Build Season:Week Three
Time flies when you are incredibly busy! It is week three and we are halfway through build season, can you believe it? We can’t either, there is still a lot of work left to be done but we are making headway! This week we had a huge success and were able to see our robot
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2016 Build Season:Week Two
Our second week of build season was very eventful and lot of progress was made. The programming girls got a lot of work done; they managed to finish coding all the subsystems. They also started autonomous and coding for the automated capabilities of the buttons to make it easier for the drive team to control the robot. That’s
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2016 Build Season:Week One
Our first week of build season, beginning with kickoff on January 9th, was action packed and full of fun! This year our student leaders and mentors did a great job of keeping everything simple and on track. By the beginning of our Monday meeting on January 11th, our design concept was decided and we began
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January 9th: FRC Kickoff and FLL Championship Competition
We had one exciting and busy Saturday! Many of you may already know this but January 9th was the FRC game reveal. Our team, as well as thousands of other FRC teams, found out the task that the robots must complete for the 2016 challenge Stronghold. The Girls of Steel attended our regional kickoff event
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #11 plus
Our final week of preseason started on December 15th and was packed with excitement! The start of our 2015/2016 season has flown by. The Tuesday meeting began with our last preseason all hands meeting! Sarris candies were also delivered on the 15th. All hands slides are available here. The video update about the meeting is
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2015-2016 Preseason meeting #10
We went over the usual topics in our second to the last all hands meeting of the preseason on December 8th. There are many important dates coming up. We have two mandatory meetings–on December 13th at 12:00-4:30 is the SHARP FRC Community Day event at Sarah Heinz House, and on December 18th at 5-8:30 is
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #9
Tuesday, December 1st, we met and held our weekly preseason meeting- #9. First, we went over the basics, such as, the 5 components of GoS principles: integrity, teamwork, safety, communication, and respect. Our hybrid animal of inspiration this week is the pengwolf…a mix of a penguin and a wolf. This is our animal model of
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #8
In the November 24th meeting, the 8th of 11 preseason meetings, we started off talking about upcoming events. First, we discussed the weekly topics, such as qualities necessary to be a part of the GoS Robotics Team, based on the Girls of Steel Principles. We also talked about needing to submit a photo of ourselves
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #7
Tuesday, November 17th, we had another weekly preseason meeting (#7). First, we had the all hands meeting where we discussed the daily topics–such as the necessary traits to have while on the Girls of Steel team, signing up to receive our Girls of Steel CMU IDs, and what to do to sign up to attend
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #6
Our meeting on November 10th was full of excitement and learning. The meeting got started with a presentation from our technical leader, outlining important team information and events. Then we talked about the team culture of Girls of Steel with our mentor George focusing on being inclusive to all team members. Following our talk with