FRC Team # 2771
The Inaugural Michigan FTC Tournament for Middle Schools is here!
It is on January 14, 2012.
The venue will be available on Friday, 1/13, from 6pm-9pm for early registration and inspection. West side teams are expected to register and be inspected on Friday.
Address:
Harbor Lights Middle School
1024 136th Ave
Holland MI 49424
Well done with the Mock Kickoff! Along with several Grand Rapids area teams, we had teams from Newaygo, Cassopolis, Niles, and even Indiana take part in this very cool event. Code Red was well-represented with students, mentors and even some parents. So, nice job everyone in helping to advance the engineering principles of hard-work, disciplined thought and innovative idea generation - all with the goal with making a difference! In addition, we did collect a whole trunkful of supplies needed by the folks at Lutheran Child & Family Services in their service to local families. Way to go FIRST family!
Here is some important information for Code Red members:
Our last team meeting of 2011 will be Tuesday, December 13. We are NOT having a team meeting on Monday, December 19th as originally planned.
(There will be a Mentor meeting on Tuesday, December 20, as we host the Code Red Mentor Cookie and Coffee Roundtable for area teams, but students will have the night off!)
The next team meeting is Tuesday, January 3 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.
The real FIRST Kickoff will be January 7th, 2012, at GVSU’s Eberhard Center in downtown GR. Attendance is mandatory for students and parents are welcome to participate.
Our Build Season begins on Monday, January 9th with the following schedule:
That Build Season schedule continues until February 21, the day we lock up our new robot. After that we’ll drop down to two nights per week as we head into competition season:
- March 1-2-3 Kettering University
-March 15-16-17 GVSU Allendale Campus
-April 12-13-14 Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti
-April 25-28 Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO
Almost 50 people from Code Red and other teams attended a CAD (Computer-Aided-Design) workshop on 11/19/11! PTC (one of our sponsors) had a instructor flown in from Minneapolis and provided hands on training in Mathcad, Windchill, and Creo Elements. Also, PTC kindly donated software and manuals for the dozens of middle school and high school students from many area FRC and FTC teams.
We were honored to participate in the Grand Rapids Santa Claus Parade with Lutheran Child and Family Services. It was a great partnership to raise awareness of the need for Foster parents and to gain support for their program of serving kids in need.
You can go to this link to learn more about the great staff of Lutheran Child and Family Services:
FIRST Tech Challenge has come to the State of Michigan this year. FTC for short. FTC is a robotics program for middle schoolers, to put something in between the FLL program and the FRC program. In precious years, middle schoolers in Michigan did not have a robotics program to come to in between FIRST Lego League, and FIRST Robotics Competition. Now, Code Red is now hosting two FTC teams.
Learn more at: www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc
VIEW FTC UPDATES AT: www.coderedrobotics.com/FTC
VIEW FTC GAME VIDEO HERE: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/2011-2012-game-info
Code Red has kicked off the season with its annual pre-season meetings! The build season doesn’t start until January 9th, but Code Red believes that we shouldn’t put things off until the end of the season. Code Red doesn’t only build robots, but builds better people in our community. Code Red Robotics wishes you the best of luck in the upcoming season.
The US Army came to the Code Red build space on June 29, 2011 to demonstrate a new robot that can do reconnaissance missions, and go places where it is to dangerous to send a human being. That was the main reason that it was made, so we could spare lives. Go to the Army Robot Page, here.
We hold camps in the summer to grow students knowledge. Our 2011 camp includes Controls, Fabrication, CAD and web site. Click to go to 2011 Summer Camp page.
We are based at Grand River Prep High school, but we do have room for students from other area high schools. Code Red wants to extend the opportunity to participate in robotics to students in the community. If you’re at a school without a robotics program, consider joining Code Red, Team 2771. For more information, email info@coderedrobotics.com, We’d love to hear from you!
We started our team from scratch with only a handful of committed students and some willing mentors. With determination, hard work, and help from corporate partners, we are starting to achieve our goals. Code Red works hard at collaboration. We’ve met with local businesses and interviewed CEO’s and engineers. We’ve worked with schools and other FIRST teams. Our partners have donated a nice build space, parts and financial support. Parents and Mentors have brought supplies, guidance and meals. Code Red students continue to meet with local businesses and organizations to spread the word about FIRST Robotics.
We, the team of Code Red Robotics, Team 2771 are committed to Excellence.
We will strive to attain personal excellence, excellence of our team mates,and excellence from our team as a whole.
As individuals we will work towards positive attitudes commitment,integrity, and determination.
We will help out teammates by being respectful, encouraging, and helpful.
We will succeed as a team though teamwork, communication, efficiency , conflict management, and respect.