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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.…

School is back in Session

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:August 28, 2012
Post category:Blog

We're already into our third week of classes and the team is beginning our fall activities. We kicked off the year with a parents meeting to get them up to…

Summer Work Continues in July

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:July 19, 2012
Post category:Blog

We haven't posted in a few weeks but that doesn't mean we have stopped working. Spectrum Summer Workshop Series 2012 We had a very successful summer workshop series. Here are…

Spectrum Summer Workshop Series 2012

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:June 29, 2012
Post category:Blog

Summer Workshop Series 2012 This weeks marks the start of our first annual summer workshop series. We are spending 7 days learning about many different FRC concepts including the control…

Moving on to Summer Stage 2

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:June 22, 2012
Post category:Blog

End of Summer Stage 1 This week marks the end of stage 1 of our summer project plan. You can view the entire plan at this link: http://goo.gl/qNBfy We are wrapping…

SPECTaculaR is Underway

Post author:Spectrum 3847
Post published:June 14, 2012
Post category:Blog

Build Log Quick note the build log from this build season has been archived and uploaded to Chiefdelphi. Thank you to everyone that helped format and get this ready for publication. SPECTaculaR…