End of Season/Start of Season Meeting.

This Sunday 29th May, 2:30pm, St Peter's College Library.

 

This meeting will conclude the 2010-2011 Season 'Round Up', and introduce the 2011-2012 Season 'Gateway'.

An invitation is hereby extended to all past, present and future members of SPC BOTS (and their families) to attend.

Cold and Hot drinks will be provided, and it would be appreciated if you could bring a plate for afternoon tea.

 

If you have any ideas or suggestiong on how you can help the team in areas like fund-raising, robot building and programming, team promotion, euipment, or any other areas of VEX, they would be much appreciated.

 

Apart from the local scrimmages on Saturdays, the following major Events are scheduled:

Please email Mr van Haren to confirm attendance and the number of family members that will be attending.

SPC Bots have now obtained a third robot, which is to be designed, build, programmed, and driven by year 7 and 8 students.

Year7-9 students in 2011 will be able to choose the "3204 STEM"  Project, watch out for details in term 4.

On Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 September (first week of holidays) vex members are welcome to attend the 3D Animation and Games Design Course run by Senior SPC Bots members.

Please promote this to friends, family, neighbours, etc.

SPC Bots (family) members will get a 50% discount in return for a plate of morning tea.

Those of you who want to work on the robots during those 2 days can do so between 9 and 3.

Please also promote the sale of St Peter's College scarves at $25 each.

Meetings will be in G19 again on Monday and Tuesday lunchtime and Wednesday after school.

Students are also welcome to come up with ideas for t-shirts, logos, fundraising, sponsorships, etc

The next scrimmages in Palmerston North are:

Saturday 25 September at PNBHS 10AM-4PM (Mini Scrimmage, students need to make own arrangements regarding robots as Mr van Haren will not be attending)

Saturday16 October at Freyberg HS 10AM-4PM

Saturday 6 November at St Peter's College 10AM-4PM (let Mr van Haren know if you can provide food items for fundraising)

On Saturday we hosted the first scrimmage of the 2010-2011 season. All went well with Marvin (3204Z) coming 3rd and Peter (3204A) coming 6th. We were also fortunate enough for Massey to lend some of our younger members a robot for the event (R2D2). We had a huge turnout with 12 teams showing up and competing. Although we didn't run autonomous it was still a fierce competition with PNBHS 2903s coming 1st.

 

Here are the final results from the event:

1st      2903s     Palmy Steel                    PNBHS

2nd     3204x     SPC Bots - R2D2            SPC

3rd      3204z     SPC Bots - Marvin          SPC

4th      2903t     Palmy Tungsten             PNBHS

5th      2933c    Phoenix                          Freyberg

6th      3204a    SPC Bots - Peter             SPC

7th      1000      Peb                                Palmy Electrobots

8th      2903r     Palmy Iron                     PNBHS

9th      2933a    Vexperts                        Freyberg

10th    MTNSs   iBeam                             Massey

11th    MTNS2   RC101                            Massey

12th    2933b    The Giants                     Freyberg

School Holiday Programme @ St Peter's College

Monday and Tuesday 12 and 13 July
9 AM - 3 PM $100 for two day programme
Optional 5 PM finish

Open to school aged children, 7 years and upwards

Spaces Limited
Morning and afternoon tea provided

Register and pay to St Peter's College Office 06 354 4198 ext 723

3D Modelling - People, Places and Worlds
Use cutting edge software to create astounding 3D models, whatever you can
dream of in this unit. Let your imagination run wild, with the tools to
create you own 3D world at your fingertips!

3D Animation - Adventure in a 3D world
Now animate your 3D models, to create an animation that tells a story. Learn
how to realistically animate both objects and people, with emphasis on
lip-synching - the art of animating the mouth to suit what's being said.
Learn what 3D animation can accomplish in the real world!

Game Design - The Epic Zone
Using Game Maker software, you will make your own computer game from
scratch! Design your own virtual world to interact with. Create your own
rules, levels zones, characters and more!

Optional Extension
A chance to develop your new skills at your own pace, you decide what you
want to learn! Features the opportunity for one-to-one time with our tutors!
Discover how what you've learnt is relevant to the real world, and how you
can continue with exciting animation and games projects at home for free

 

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Success!

The course was a success, and we brought in a lot of money for fundraising.

For more info, check out the Fundraising page.

Great News TWO NEW ZEALAND teams and a Chinese team are the Tournament Champions.

 

The tournament champions were an alliance of two New Zealand teams and one Chinese team. 2921 Free Range Robotics, 2919 K-Force from Kristin School, and 8192A Shanghai Luwan Teenagers Activity Center

Here are a List of results from the 2010 VEX Robotics World Championship.

We actually got there!

We drove up to Auckland on the Friday, and drove back Sunday night/Monday morning.

We didn't win, in fact we didn't come close. Team A finished the Qualifications in 34th place (out of 49), and Team Z finished in 41st place.

 

In addition, Team 3204-A won the Judge's Award, primarily for our entry into the online Vex Design a Game Animation Challenge.