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VEX at the Sally Ride Science Festival

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:October 31, 2012
Post category:Blog

On Saturday our team had to split up for the morning. Most of our team was at Robot Remix (blog post to follow) but five of us went to Rice…

Mentor for a Day – Katie Strausser: Ekso Bionics

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:October 25, 2012
Post category:Blog

Spectrum had the great privilege of having Katie Strausser, a St. Agnes Engineering Team alumnus, visit the team on Monday (10/22). Katie graduated from St. Agnes in 2003 and attended…

Houston VEX League Day 2 – Galveston

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:October 25, 2012
Post category:Blog

This past Saturday (10/20) was day 2 of the inaugural Houston VEX League. The event was held at the Scott Collegiate Academy in Galveston, TX. Spectrum had both our robots…

Weekend of Volunteering

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:October 16, 2012
Post category:Blog

This past week was spent mostly on making improvements to the VEX Robots for the Houston League Competitions. We're working on making our drive train faster and getting in more…

Day 1 of the Houston VEX League

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:October 8, 2012
Post category:Blog

Saturday, Spectrum hosted the 1st day of the Houston VEX League at Strake Jesuit College Prep. It was an awesome event with over 30 teams competing. The teams came ready to…

VEX League this Saturday

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:October 1, 2012
Post category:Blog

We're hosting the first event of the Houston VEX League this Saturday (10/6) at Strake Jesuit College Prep. We'll have over 25+ teams from across the Houston area competing in…

Mentor for a Day: Zeb Scoville NASA EVA

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:September 25, 2012
Post category:Blog

We had our 1st Mentor for a Day on Friday (9/21/12). Zeb Scoville from NASA's Extravehicular Activity team came to St. Agnes to talk about the history of Spacesuits and…

Moving Along Nicely

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:September 18, 2012
Post category:Blog

We have been progressing nicely on our VEX robots but we only have 18 days to have two completed robots for our 1st event. It's getting into crunch time. We…

VEX Week 2

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:September 12, 2012
Post category:Blog

Our two VEX Robotics Competition teams have continued their prototyping work for the past few days. We have several collecting systems and a couple lifts in the works. Hopefully we…

Start of the VEX Season

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:September 6, 2012
Post category:Blog

We've been meeting for about two weeks and most of that time has been spent getting introduced to the VEX robotics system and doing strategy analysis for the VEX game Sack Attack.…