coyote connection
edition 4
Crescent School's Robotics Program is the envy of many schools, and has become a signature hallmark of Crescent. It is also an expensive program to implement and maintain. In order to ensure the program's ongoing success and sustainability, Crescent is seeking modest financial support from the parents of those in the Robotics Program, [1]
and from the Crescent community. You might wish to provide a taxdeductible donation to help support the operational costs of the program. Please contact John Lynch, Director of Advancement, at (416) 466-4290 ext 242 or jlynch@crescentschool.org to discuss how your family can support Robotics with a taxdeductible gift. Thank you!
our contest first place prize - premium spirit package second place prize - spirit package third place prize - three buttons
the questions: what is the team’s official mascot? when was the last time 610 won the chairman’s award? what was the first frc event 610 attended? which 610 mentors have won the woodie flowers award, and in what years did they win?
contest rules: to be eligible to win you must ‘like’ the team 610 facebook page to win a prize, send your answers to contestteam610@gmail.com we will have a contest in all remaining issues of the newsletter those who participate in at least three weekly contests until the final issue will have their names put forth to win an official 610 jersey
the contents of the awards: premium spirit package: team 610 hat, three rally towels, three buttons spirit package: three rally towels, three buttons three buttons: self-explanatory
students, mentors, and alumni of 610 cannot win a prize [2]
division feature: business spirit The Administrative, Business, and Spirit During the build season, there is a lot of administration
divisions are overseeing the awards that Team coordination that needs to be done in all aspects 610 is eligible to win this year. This season, the of the team, and usually this responsibility falls members of the awards team are focusing most to Kevin Chien. Kevin is a key member of the of their efforts on the Chairman’s and robotics teams as head of the Administrative Engineering Inspiration awards. Both of these Division. At the moment, Kevin is currently awards have the potential to qualify the team for investing a huge amount of time into planning the FIRST Championship, and are therefore a and organizing the Chairman’s video. large priority for the team. The importance of Throughout the build season, Kevin sends out these awards has warranted a huge amount of hundreds of e-mails, coordinating everything effort from every member of the awards divison. from team meetings to communication with The Business team has been focusing on the other teams from across North America. During Essay aspect of the Chairman’s Award, and the competitions, Kevin will be the head scouter, Administrative division is planning the coordinating all scouts on Thursday, Friday, and Chairman’s video. The Spirit division is Saturday in order to help the strategy division controlling all aspects of the Engineering make the correct choices come alliance Inspiration award, and they are also working on selection. a plan that will improve our team spirit at competitions. Every student working Jason Spevack, the assistant head of the on these awards are very optimistic administrative and business divisions, is Like us on about our chances of winning. a man of many traits. Jason is known They hope they can join the for handling a large array of tasks Facebook robot in bringing some throughout the year. During the build facebook.com/team610 hardware back to Crescent. season, Jason organizes and puts Follow us on the newsletter together every week. This year, the Spirit Division Jason also assists Kevin in the Twitter was created in order to planning and execution of the twitter.com/ improve team spirit in and out Chairman’s video. This year he was of competitions. The team able to organize the cameras and frc_team_610 decided that Jordan Grant would lighting for our Chairman’s video. At best fit the role of Spirit Division competitions, Jason is our head head. Jordan exemplifies team 610 Spirit, photographer, taking pictures of every robot at spreading the team’s news around the school, the competition for later reference during our and being a positive role model in the stands at scouting meetings. Every Saturday at the competitions. So far in the Spirit Division’s competitions, Jason takes videos of our rookie season, Jordan has organized and elimination matches that are later posted onto coordinated the design process behind the our team’s YouTube account. team’s new hoodies, hats, and discs. He has also played a large part in contributing to the Ian Ko is the head of the Business Division on Engineering Inspiration award. team 610. His job not only entails responsibilities during the build season, but Early in the season, Jordan chose Jonathan after and before as well. Ian is always searching Pearce for the role of assistant head of the Spirit and reaching out to local businesses and Division. Jonathan has assisted Jordan companies for sponsorships. He also helps throughout the season with all of the Spirit manage the Facebook page and website for the Division’s projects, including apparel and team. Ian is constantly spreading the word Engineering Inspiration. Jonathan will be a about our FRC team around Crescent School necessity in the stands to get people up and out through announcements and creative posters. of their seats when 610 is ready to compete. He is one the most ambitious members of the robotics team, and is always striving to achieve [3] greater things.
build-season re-cap wk1-2 How can a team be successful at Ultimate Ascent? First, you have to know the rules. You have to analyze the game. You have to strategize. The beginning of the build season started with three important things. The first was learning the rules, which was necessary in order to create the Textbook Strategy – a second by second breakdown of our match including
what we would try to accomplish and how to do go about it. Based on this very comprehensive strategy guide, we had to outline what we wanted our robot to do, a list divided between wants and needs. With all these things in mind, we started designing the robot in SolidWorks.
week 1 strategize
The next step marked the beginning of the design process. The team was divided into groups that would build prototypes and start CADing the various subsystems of the robot. This was a lengthy stage of the process, as we had to choose which solutions and designs would best accomplish the game’s challenges. Prototypes for feeders, shooters and hangers were made, all bringing us a step closer to deciding on our final
week 2 design
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design. Parts were modeled in SolidWorks, and the lab was in a flurry as ideas and students flew around the room. Slowly but surely, the ideas narrowed down, and prototypes were refined. Once some major decisions had been made, final parts were designed and prepared for fabrication.
build-season re-cap wk3-4 Part by part, our mentors approve our designs, bringing us closer and closer to finishing the robot. Visual Mill files are sent to our CNC router, holes are cut on the mill; the robot comes together piece by piece. Students use skills learned from grades 9, 11 and 12 Tech Design classes to build the robot. Skills in and outside the workshop are necessary to build a
robust, well-functioning robot. Our team tries to make every part that we can here in our workshop, which helps students become comfortable with the machines, gives hands on experience, and creates a more enriching experience for each and every student. week 3 fabricate
week 4 refine
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As the robot is being constructed, we will inevitably encounter various issues with it, or design changes that require reconstruction. Because of that, the robot is constantly being refined to meet the demands of the team. Our goal of building
a world-class robot can only be achieved by constant reiteration, an important step in the design process. For the remainder of the season, we will be building and rebuilding our robot in an attempt to create our best robot to date.
our home...
...away from home week 4 photos
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BAE Granite State Regional February 27 – March 3 Manchester, NH
competition dates
Waterloo Regional (parents welcome) March 20 – March 23 Waterloo, ON
we would like to thank all of our parent sponsors for donating food Seto Family
Ravindran Family Riley Family
Rose Family Liu Family
Spevack Family DiMenna Family
Lang Family Chien Family
Bianchini Family Menon Family
Pearce Family
Ganguli Family Dhar Family
Harrs Family Haughton Family
McCauley Family Kachura Family [7]
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