Hey Robotics Club Members!

I just changed the time, so if 1pm conflicted for you, give it another shot. There are now two options.

Our Industry Relations Officer, Tyson Messori, works at SBIR and has set us up with a tour of their facilities. You can learn more about SBIR before signing up for the tour, if you like, but there are only 15 spots available! However, please only sign up for the tour if you know for a fact you can go.

We will be leaving at no earlier than 2pm and returning at around 7pm or slightly later. So if you want to go, reserve a spot so we can figure out carpooling after that!

Congratulations to the following who were elected as officers for the year 2012-2013:

President: Troy Weber
Vice President: Connor Citron
Treasurer: Corinne Warnock
Secretary: Stephanie Krapil
Webmaster: Michael Roberts
Special Events Co: Brian Gomberg
Publicity Director: Eliana Stefani
Industry Relations: Cordell Hollingsworth
Outreach Co: Paul Sullivan

The new officers will be training under the current officers for the remainder of the quarter, and will officially be full time officers come Summer, or more appropriately, Fall quarter.

We just had our 1st General Meeting for the 2012 Spring Quarter, at which we discussed how the next meeting would be the 2012-2013 Officer Elections.

In a moment, I’ll provide a link at which you can review the position descriptions, but first I want you to understand why you should read the descriptions at all, whether you are interested in running or not.

If you are interested in running, it is obviously beneficial to know what you could be running for. However, if you are not interested in running, I hope you would still be interested in voting, and we would need your input to have a fair vote and decide whose abilities and claims are the most sound fit for the job.

Granted, no officer is going to be able to perfectly achieve these goals, and there will inevitably be some overlap in responsibilities, but here is a good set of guidelines to help you determine if there is a position for which you would like to run: Officer Descriptions Slideshow (or Officer Descriptions PDF).

After reading the descriptions, if you are interested in running for a position, you must fill out the nomination form for yourself, or have someone else fill it out for you. Once you are nominated for one position, you may run for others at the elections.

The elections will be August 24, 2012 @ 11:10am-12pm in Room 10-231.

Robotics Club and Entrants!

Below I’d like to congratulate our winning T-Shirt Designs:

• First Place: Colin Smith
• Second Place: Sheen Kao
• Third Place: Mason Hayes

Thank you for your entries! To those who voted, thank you for your votes! We are currently working on tweaking the colors of the winning design, getting permission to print Cal Poly’s name, and getting the T-Shirts printed. For those of you who have gone without a shirt this whole time, we appreciate your patience, and expect the T-Shirts to be complete in the Spring Quarter.

Also, this weekend is our quarterly clean-up day! Please show up to contribute to the club’s cleanliness, eat burgers, and toss some Frisbee!

Since the bulk of the work was done last quarter, this quarter should be an easy clean-up/organization, leaving more time for burgers and Frisbee. Thanks to those who contributed last quarter, and who will contribute tomorrow. As a side note, we unfortunately cannot promise that the room will be available for project work, but the more people that show up, the faster we’ll get organized, and the ability to resume robotics work will increase.

See you tomorrow!