Hello

Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Tom. As of writing this, I am 17. This is going to be my third year on the team. I'm going to be writing this blog from now on, as the previous poster has graduated.


So, here is what's been happening recently:

• We had a really cool presentation with the Girl Scouts of San Diego which went really well! We got to tell the kids about what we do, what FIRST is, and how they can get involved in FIRST. We let them score some batons with Frank 1.5(our robot), showed them NXT G and let them build with Legos. This was a really great experience for all of us on the team, and at the end of the presentation we got awesome thank you cards and cookies from the kids :D!

• In other news, I've started taking baby steps in programming with RobotC, and so I think I'll be ready to start programming autonomous stuff before summer, which was my goal for starting. Hooray! I've been able to make simple programs to test sensors, run some of the sample programs to see what they're doing, and I have only sustained one injury so far!

• This Tuesday, another team member and I will be presenting Frank 1.5 to the Board of Directors of our school. In addition to this, we're going to try to show it(Frank) at the annual school expo so we can tell other people in our school about FIRST and show them what it is that we do.

All in all, I think we're off to a great start this year!


- Tom.