Monta Vista Robotics Team

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Monta Vista Robotics Team

• Year 2006-2007

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What is MVRT?

• Established in 1997-1998
• Group of 60-70 students that combine their
  ingenuity to achieve a common goal...
• Students inspired to use their imagination to
  create the vision of tomorrow
• A team that withstands hardships and difficulties
  to build a masterpiece to the best of their
  ability

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History

• Founded in 1998.
• Since then, the MVRT have received several
  awards, and have made it to Nationals multiple
  times in recent years
• The MVRT received an honorable 3rd place at
  nationals 4 years ago, and 1st place at the
  Silicon Valley Regional
• Has mentored many teams
• Kehillah, Saratoga, Homestead, Harker, and
  Lynbrook High Schools
• Began mentoring Lego League
• Lego league is a group of 10 middle students
  that do similar tasks as Robotics does, but at a
  Junior High level
• Has cooperated one-on-one with trained
  professionals

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Introduction to FIRST

• For Inspiration and Recognition for Science and
  Technology was founded in 1989
• Helps youngsters awaken their imagination and
  innovation potential
• To promote scientific innovation
• To spread Gracious Professionalism
• Teaches high school students respect for school,
  community, technology, and science

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Scope of FIRST

• 34 Regional Competitions Worldwide
• We compete in Silicon Valley Regional and UC
  Davis Regional
• National Championship in Atlanta Georgia
• Over 1300 teams worldwide!

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Competition
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Team Breakdown
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Engineering

• Consisting of
• Electrical
• Mechanical

• Responsible for
• Designing
• Constructing
• Wiring
• Programming

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Mechanical Division

• Responsible for Mechanical Assignments
• Design
• Fabrication
• Assembly
• Wiring
• Maintenance
• Time Commitment
• Trainings 1 hour after school Mondays and
  Fridays through November
• Build 3 - 4 hours everyday Jan 6th through Feb
  20th

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Electrical Division

• Responsible for programming the robot controller
  in C
• Reacts to joystick/button movement
• Autonomous (10 seconds)
• Work with switches, servos, and potentiometers
• Wire the robot

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Operations

• Consisting of
• Public Relations
• Finance
• Media

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Public Relations Division

• Responsible for reaching out to our community and
  connecting MVRT to the community
• Recruit new members
• Organizing demonstrations
• Organizing inter-team activities
• Creating presentations for companies and
  competition judges
• Organizing Awards Night
• Producing thank you gifts (for advisors,
  mentors, companies that have helped out the team)

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Media Division

• 30 second animation
• Created using 3D Studio Max
• Designing Posters
• T-shirts
• Flyers
• Buttons
• Decorations for Competitions
• Maintaining the website

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Finance Division

• Makes money to build the robot, register for
  competitions, and other expenses
• Holds and organizes fundraisers
• Writes grants to large companies
• Requires minimal time commitment (about an hour a
  week)

Budget

• 6000 First Competition
• 4000 Second Competition
• 5000 Championships
• 4000 Robot Materials
• 3000 Hotel and Transportation
• 2000 Printing Fees
• Total 24,000

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Registration to Join

• Complete Application, Charter, and Waiver
• Pay Registration Fee
• 100 applied towards registration for
  competitions
• 20 towards Awards Night
• 15 t-shirt (required)
• 25 polo (optional)
• Standard Amount - 135
• With Polo - 160
• Forms and money due by September 29 in F108

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Funding

• MVRT has received major funding through corporate
  grant applications
• Corporate funding has significantly decreased in
  the last two years
• MVRT has also received many corporate matches
  in the past
• MVRT also readily accept donations
• these donations are tax deductible

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Yahoo Groups

• The teams main method of communication
• All members will be invited to join the MVRT115
  Yahoo Group
• All team updates will be sent out to all students
  via Yahoo Groups
• The Yahoo Group is done through email

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Time Commitment

• Once the build season begins Engineering members
  will be at school at least till 6 PM
• During the last 2 - 3 weeks of the build we will
  be working till 8 PM on certain days
• We continue working everyday of the week for 6
  weeks including weekends and the February Winter
  Break
• If you is fall behind in school because of
  Robotics, we will send you home. Performing well
  in school is every students first priority.

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Dinners Snacks

• We will have a snack schedule where all members
  staying after school will be required to bring
  snacks for the other students at least twice.
• Engineering members will also be eating dinners
  at school nearing the end of the build
• Snack and Dinner schedules will be organized

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References

• MVRTs Homepage
• www.mvrt.com
• Chief Delphi Forums
• www.chielfdelphi.com
• FIRST Homepage
• www.usfirst.org