Monday, February 11, 2013 w w w.t e am r u s h27. n e t Vol. 17, No. 5

RUSH ReviewRUSH MISSION: To develop engaged, self-confident leaders who inspire innovation and advocate for all young minds to have an opportunity to understand the significance of STEM thus transforming culture to value

STEM ensuring a successful future knowledge economy.

Team 27 RUSHRequests the honor of your

presence at their 17th Annual

Open House February 18, 2013,

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Meet the MentorsJason Markesino

Jason has been involved with Team RUSH since the team’s founding in 1997. He became a RUSH mentor in 2005. This year, Jason is a mentor for the electrical and scouting and strategy sub-teams. Jason attended Michigan Technological University where he majored in

mechanical engineering. While at Michigan Tech, Jason co-founded a FIRST team with the local high school. Now Jason works at Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) where he trains new employees on programming robots and automated systems, a lot like what he does at RUSH! When not hanging with the team, Jason enjoys collecting and tasting wine along with cooking!

SOCIAL MEDIATeam RUSH has become very involved with social media since build season started! We keep our FRC Team RUSH 27 Facebook page updated constantly! On our Facebook page you can find our newsletters, old chairman’s videos and speeches, rookie conference call notes, team photos, and regular meeting updates. As of today we have a total of 232 likes! Can we make it to 500 by the end of competition season? Like us and help us reach our goal. https://www.facebook.com/TeamRush27

On our Twitter page we update our followers about the going ons and happenings of our team! You can also find pictures of the team and a few old chairman’s videos! We will be tweeting regularly as we transition to competition season. Will you join our list of followers? https://twitter.com/TeamRUSH27

We have also gone out of our comfort zone and joined Pinterest! There you will find old robots, ‘27’ pictures, inspirational pictures and pictures of Team RUSH! http://pinterest.com/teamrush27

RUSH Open House

Joe VedrodyJoe is a second year mentor working with the OCD sub-team. Joe graduated from Michigan State University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. Joe states that he knew he wanted to be an engineer in 9th grade, to pursue his love of cars as a career.

Joe has had a long career at Chrysler LLC, having done everything from working at the proving grounds to being a component engineer to now working as a supervisor of the road test simulator. He enjoys sharing his passion for engineering and experiences with the students. Outside of Team RUSH, Joe says he has “too many hobbies” doing “pretty much everything except for dance”. He likes all things sports and building model cars, trains, and boats. None of this, however, exceeds his love for cars, and says his favorite is his 1957 Chevy Bel-Air Sport-coupe.

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Community Impact Group (CIG)

Mentors: Steve Hyer and Shannon Moegling

Captain: Camron Members: Preston, Zach E, Jennifer, Jessica, Sejal, Regan, Michael R, Shelby, Courtney, Carter.

CIG is a team of committed students who develop presentations and publications telling people about RUSH. Because all of the students on CIG are also on another robot sub-team, we don’t meet as an entire sub-team in build season, but we still maintain communication about our individual roles in the management of CIG. This week, the Chairman’s Award Presenters have been working together to practice the speech and Q&A. In the weeks to come, the CIG team will be practicing Q&A, training the entire team, and developing the pit board displays.

ChassisMentor: James Captain: Andrew

Members: Steven, Michael, Diana, John, Amanda

This week, our team has been waiting for some parts to come in. However, we have been passing the time by assembling other parts of the robot. We have actually started working on the chassis! Towards the end of the week, our team has been able to complete the installation of the sliding wheel blocks and our awesome gearboxes! We hope to have the chassis rolling and wired by the end of the week.

Above ChassisMentor: Dennis Captain: Ryan

Members: Courtney, Melchior, Josh, Preston, Emilia, Jessica

This week above chassis had hoped to finish our prototype and test it so we can start building the final product soon. We are close to finalizing our design for the climber but this has been delayed due to a problem we uncovered with climbing; the robot will not be balanced in the middle of the pole so there is a chance that we could fall off. We must fix this and complete the climber in Inventor before we can build. Next week we will begin fabrication of the final climber and continue working on the mills if we have time.

ProgrammingMentors: Jason, Pat Captain: Matt

Members: Michael R, Mitch, Zach E, Zach P

Last week, we finished frisbee and lateral tracking code so we can track the targets and frisbees automatically. The driver station has been updated with custom views to make it easier for the drivers to see the camera feed and adjust the autons. We began documenting everything we have done over the past few weeks into a pamphlet that can be used in the future by other programmers and rookie teams. The new sub-team students continued to learn LabVIEW.

OCD (Object Collection Device)Mentors: Josh Captain: Ben

Members: Shelby, Jennifer, Joey, Regan, Carter

This week, OCD worked with the shooter. We tested a design with a six inch foam wheel, and a four inch rubber wheel. We also tested another with a four inch foam wheel rather than the rubber one. We chose different size wheels, because it enables us to create spin with the first, smaller wheel, and provide the shooting velocity with the second, larger one. Our goal is to begin fabrication of the final shooter by the end of this week, as we are still waiting on parts.

Scouting & Strategy S&S Mentors: Josh, Jason, Pam Captain: Jordan

Members: Jared, Nathan

This week, the Strategy & Scouting sub-team sees the light at the end of the tunnel. We have completed all Toolkit chapters through 9, all that’s left is the Rookie Resources. The Toolkit For Success App will be released by the end of this week! The new students rotated between the Programming sub-team and this sub-team, so now Zach P. and Zachary E. have joined Strategy & Scouting. At the end of this week, Scouting will be our number one objective; we will be working full time towards this year’s Scouting App.

ElectricalMentor: Jason, Jimmy Captain: Andy

Members: Camron, Sejal, Kristijan, Kirsten, Joe

This week, the electrical sub-team continued wiring the practice bot. We are also working on part placement, specifically with the sensors. As parts arrive, we organize and lay them out. We have spent most of this week laying out and wiring the practice bot, and soldering the PWM cables. We are having fun with our teammates learning how to wire the robot.

Buddy Basketball Team RUSH is now the proud sponsor of 2 Buddy Basketball groups. They didn’t have enough players for “teams”, so Team RUSH is now sponsoring the entire program. The dates below are when they practice. It would be very cool if we could go over and use the basketball robot to “play” with them for a few minutes - maybe challenge them to a game of HORSE?

Buddy Basketball is played at Everest Academy at 6:00 pm on the following Monday nights;

February 4thFebruary 11thFebruary 25thMarch 4thMarch 11thMarch 18th

Sub-Team Goals

Only 8 days until Ship!

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Captain’s Choice Joe has done a great job so far jumping right in to the RUSH family. Overcoming many difficulties with communication and our culture, succeeding within RUSH. Joe has worked diligently with the electrical team this week to get the Practice bot up and running. Being the go-to person for soldering, Joe is often assigned tasks that others struggle with and he always is able to get it done. When asked to do something, Joe will always get it done in a timely fashion and to the fullest of his capabilities. He has done a great job becoming a hidden leader over the course of this build season and we really look forward to his contributions in the future. Great job Joe!

Congratulations Joe L!

Parent of the WeekThis week’s parent of the week honors go to Paula Zalobsky. She has been critical in planning for this year’s open house, specifically organizing the food and drinks. Mrs. Zablosky has always offered great support for the team as we transition into competition season, from driving students to running errands. Thanks for your commitment to ensuring the team’s success!

Thanks again Mrs. Zalobski!

Rock Solid Recognition

Student of the WeekBen is being recognized as this week’s Student of the Week! He has gone above and beyond his duties as a sub-team captain for OCD putting in countless hours and supreme effort to get the robot to its current state. He has led by example and his humor and sincerity in the face of potential setbacks have kept the team motivated and moving forward. Congratulations Ben and thanks for all you do!

Congratulations Ben!

Clarkston Dermatology has been an outstanding sponsor for Team RUSH for the past 5 years and continuously increases their support! Specifically, Dr. McFalda of Clarkston Dermatology has been an excellent judge for our annual RUSH Regatta, even donating sun screen packets for everyone! She has also been a judge for the Holiday Lights parade. She was unavailable this year, but to no avail, she roped in one of her collegues, Dr. Kopitzski to judge, representing Clarkston Dermatology. So it doesn’t matter, on the beaches in the sun or on the streets in the snow, Clarkston Dermatology has always been there for Team RUSH! Thank you for being a tremendous sponsor since the beginning - kudos to this week’s Sponsor Highlight ... Clarkston Dermatology!

Thank You Clarkston Dermatology!

Sponsor Spotlight

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I’M POSSIBLE!-AUDREY HEPBURN

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Top Ten Funniest RUSH Moment! 10. When we were told asking random people to donate to

team RUSH wouldn’t work and the first person gave $500. 9. “Is that Windows 5?” -Regan H. 8. At competition Camron got stuck in the closet 7. Scaring people in the hallway 6. Coming up with suspicious juice with Michael Abraham 5. Late Friday night last year in build season with lots of

singing and dancing about chassis 4. Mrs. Hughes getting hit in the head with a frisbee 3. “Jordan can you get the metal stretchers?” 2. Andrew L. propositioning Mrs. HughesAnd the #1 Funniest RUSH Moment is... 1. Sinking in the Regatta

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Gold OutShow your TRUE Color!

Theme for Friday, February 8th was... Super Heroes

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