With the beginning of the year come new curious minds and recruiting sessions. Recently we had an all girls recruiting session, to promote more female involvement in the sciences, hosted by our two female leads, Tina and Tara, which turned up two new team members the following meeting. Soon to come will be a general robotics informational meeting for any other people interested in what we do.

An important note for our current members; all of those who are going to CalGames in October, we need to know who you are and if you have direct parental confirmation. If you haven’t actually asked your parents, do it soon or consider yourself as staying behind.

Also, changes are going to be made to the website, hopefully over the next few months. This will include a few layout changes plus we’re adding a calendar to the site as well as new management over the 997 website.

After an impressive performance at Da Vinci Days with teams 1087, 955, 847, 1359 and 956, the spartan robotics team is finishing up their summer projects and preparing for their next quest into California to compete in the California Games. Work is starting to stir up in the robotics rooms for Mario Pastega and Cal-Games. Everyone is very anxious for build season to start. Hope everyone is having a great summer. See you this fall.

We had twenty Team Members/parents and everyone worked very hard in hot and dirty conditions. Team 997 has brawn and heart as well as brains and beauty!

Those who volunteered are:

Scott Card
Andy Parker
James Bartholomew
Javid Richman
David Al-Rosyid
Troy Schaffer
Bonnie Tomski
Tim Lykins
Jeff Traver
Sheila Krishnan
Tara Krishnan
Barbara Markello
Charlie Markello
Steve Bice
Michael Dexter
Britta Harline
Shane Mueller
Mark Woodward
John Bettich
Kristy Hager

We are proud to announce that you are now viewing the newest incarnation of the Spartan Robotics website. This time the redesign came surprisingly early giving plenty of time to work on content during the summer. Most things should be functional. Photos will be coming back fairly soon and the few remaining broken pages will be fixed. Feel free to comment!

With the goals of spreading the word about FIRST and the presance of this local high school’s robotics team we will be performing many community service acts and holding many fundraisers between now and build season.

upcoming events include:

Restoration of Wildcat Park

The Rose Show

Several “in-planning” Car-Washes

And many more events to come…

Also, one of our sponsors, Mario Pastega of the local Pepsi co., has asked us to build a robot to put up in the Christmas Display during the Holiday Season. So we will be working through the end of the year and into the next on this project so be sure to come see our final product and the several other displays that go up between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

However, with the comming of the end of the year, we will have to say goodbye to the Seniors who have brought so much to the team.

Former president, electrical captain, and all-around cool guy:

Andy “Sandy/Dandy/Candy Wandy” Parker -(we will clone you Andy…)

“Bumper guy”, mechanical worker and Main Team Driver of the ‘07 competitions:

“gimp-” Yi Li

And our Mechanical/Electrical/Pit Crew worker and Indonesian Foreign Exchange-student:

David Al-Roysid

We say goodbye to these technologicaly passionate individuals and wish them the best of luck in college, life, and to whatever may lie ahead in their futures. We also wish that they may come back to CHS and become the Mentors that drive the next generation of Spartan Robotics. We salute you.

Team 997 Visited OSU along with 3 other local teams (Crescent Vally 955, PHRED 957, and The Scallywags 1359) on Friday May 11th for the OSU Tech Fair. We showed off the robot from this year and talked with many local parents, students, and interested children.

We would just like to thank OSU for having us again this year and it was a blast!!!

you can find pictures here

With the competitions past, it is time for our members to launch into off-season tasks and projects, and with how much we have to do, we will be busy. From the monotonous task of cleaning and organizing the all too familiar wormhole of our robotics room, to designing modular robot parts for future challenges; even our fund raising the next build season has started.

On another note, with the 2006-2007 school year coming to an end, it came time to democratically ‘pass the torch’ and elect new all season leaders, and the polls have closed.

Team President: ………. Tim Lykins

Vice President: ………. Tara Krishnan

Fund raising: ………. Tina Schnell

Public Relations: ………. Scott Card

Congratulations Guys! Lets Get started…

We had a great run at the FIRST robotics world championships, thanks to our alliance members 494, 254, It was a perfect end to a GREAT year. We will still be having meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:30-9:00.

We have won the Davis/Sac regional. We seeded second and were picked by team 100, who was seeded first. The other alliance partner was 1458. We’re looking forward to nationals on April 12-14!

We are very proud to present that we have won the Pacific Northwest Regional event! Thanks to everyone for working hard at the competition and those that have contributed along the way. If anyone has photos, please do bring them on Tuesday. We will be meeting on Tuesdays at 6:30 to get ready for our next regional in Davis California.

Again, thanks to everyone, including our alliance partners, teams 272 and 1087!

Also be sure to see the match results and the awards.