Spectrum - This Fri and Sat - FRC All-Star Game

View this email in your browser Indiana Robotics Invitational July 13-14 Watch the action live: www.twitch.tv/FIRSTinspires Event Results and Matches: The Blue Alliance Spectrum is heading up to Indianapolis for the 2018 Indiana Robotics Invitational, 70 of the best teams from around North America will be attending. This Spectrum's 3rd appearance at IRI and we are excited to see and compete with so many great teams. The action will start at 9am Friday and Saturday and wrap around 5pm both days.  Follow along on social media (links below) for updates, photos and videos from the event.  Follow us on social media Website = www.spectrum3847.org Blog = Blog.spectrum3847.org Photos = photos.spectrum3847.org Twitter = twitter.com/spectrum3847 Facebook = facebook.com/spectrum3847 Instagram = instagram.com/spectrum3847 Youtube = youtube.com/spectrum3847 Service/Outreach Opportunities Getting students excited about Robotics is one of the most important things we do!  Summer is the perfect opportunity for new students to join the team. If you know someone who might enjoy being on the team, have them come help out to TRI and our outreach activities. Great time to learn! Sign up for the Summer Events Here a great way to get service hours for NHS, etc: https://goo.gl/bmtLFJ Solarcraft Tour and Demonstration: June 19th Sign Up Collaborative Partnership between Microsoft & Spectrum 3847 -  Throughout the summer. The Championship judges recognized our work with Microsoft. This year, the students will help teach programming with an Ohbot, a programmable robotic head,  that encourages children to experiment with making, computer programming and interacting with their environment through technology.  Microsoft Sign Up: https://goo.gl/forms/WyAOVgOvENZt9EHA2 SPECTaculaR - First two weeks of August (tent) Two week free summer camp benefiting the Boys & Girls Club. Since 2012 our students have designed and implemented a curriculum for SPECTaculaR, a summer robotics program at the Spring Branch Boys and Girls Club that teaches engineering principles to children in the third to eighth grades. 2018 Season Highlights Summer Tournaments: Indiana Robotics Invitational - IRI. The 2017 Indiana Robotics Invitational is Friday and Saturday, July 14 – 15. Leaving Jul 11 (wed) returning Jul 15 (Sun). Trip will be $350 please pay as soon as you can. It's possible that it ends up being $400 if we don't fill out the bus with enough people. Need for Summer Socials: If you would like to host a bbq/pool party, please let us know. We have done these every summer but we need a host for this year. We could also have a parent plan some type of activity like bowling/paintball/ice skating, etc. Thank you! If you have any questions, please contact us. Sincerely, Allen Gregory IV Spectrum 3847 Engineering Coach/Mentor Jacob Walker Spectrum 3847 Mentor Suanne Bouvier Spectrum 3847 Marketing Mentor Copyright © 2018 Spectrum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Spectrum 9000 Bellaire Blvd Houston, TX 77036 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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Nov News: FLL Volunteers Needed Dec 2nd

Volunteers Needed Dec 2nd

View this email in your browser FIRST Lego League Volunteers Needed Dec 2nd We need people to volunteer for our FLL Tournament. No experience necessary. The biggest thing we need are judges, it's like judging a science fair you just talk to students. You don't need to know anything about the game or the robots. We still need 12 more Judges for the event.   FLLvolunteer.spectrum3847.org FIRST LEGO League is a STEM competition that puts teams of 4th-8th grade students to the test to see which team can build a robot to accomplish the most game tasks, have a well thought out research project, and exemplify FLLs core values. Project Judges Selects team award recipients through interaction with teams and contributing to the deliberation process.  Interview and observe teams in the Judging rooms, Pit, and on the playing field.  Position serves as a role model for the team members. Participates in writing short awards scripts extolling merits of winning teams and assists with award presentations to the teams.   The FLL Project changes with the yearly Challenge theme and is the opportunity for the teams to explore the topic in depth and allows them to have a firsthand opportunity in proposing a solution to a problem they selected. Sample Project, presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flywxtrDy9k Robot Design Judge Selects team award recipients through interaction with teams and contributing to the deliberation process.  Interview and observe teams in the Judging rooms, Pit, and on the playing field .  Position serves as a role model for the team members. Participates in writing short awards on-the-spot scripts extolling merits of winning teams and assists with award presentations to the teams.   Robot Game Missions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TI1XEk3N8E Core Values Judge Selects team award recipients through interaction with teams and contributing to the deliberation process.  Interview and observe teams in the Judging rooms, Pit, and on the playing field.  Position serves as a role model for the team members. Participates in writing short awards scripts extolling merits of winning teams and assists with award presentations to the teams.  Information on the FLL Core Values can be found at http://ift.tt/1iUI8UY. Concessions and Volunteer Food We also need a few more people to help us with concessions and helping with volunteer lunch and services.   Remix Nov 11th Spectrum will be at The Remix in the Woodlands on Nov 11th. Watch the action live at TheBlueAlliance.com Timelapse of TRR 2017 CANstruction Sucess "Blasting Away Hunger" "Houston, we have a problem. While the concept of hunger is alien to some, it doesn’t take the Hubble Telescope to see it’s effects on our community. Hunger isn’t light years away – everyday around 66,000 Houstonians are hungry and without food. This year, Spectrum’s theme is “Blasting Away Hunger” and Spectrum 3847 is partnering with the Houston Food Bank to reach this goal." Full Blog Article about the event. Follow us on social media Website = www.spectrum3847.org Blog = Blog.spectrum3847.org Photos = photos.spectrum3847.org Twitter = http://twitter.com/spectrum3847 Facebook = http://ift.tt/2dwip2y Instagram = http://ift.tt/2cTk6tu Youtube = http://youtube.com/spectrum3847 Copyright © 2017 Spectrum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Spectrum 9000 Bellaire Blvd Houston, TX 77036 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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Spectrum Gracious Professionalism Award at 2017 TRR

Semifinalist at Texas Robot Roundup 2017

View this email in your browser TRR Recap Spectrum made it to the semifinals at our competition last weekend in Austin at the 7th Annual Texas Robotics Roundup.   At the TRR awards ceremony, Spectrum 3847 was bestowed the prestigious Gracious Professionalism award. “We were thrilled to have been awarded the Gracious Professionalism Award! Spectrum 3847 is a team that demonstrates how to be an integral part of the FIRST community. We host our Texas Robotics Invitational every summer and we are instrumental in helping other teams with their tournaments. We help manage their AV, live stream, social media and photography for many of the tournaments year after year as well as help set up and take down the field.” said Allen Gregory, Spectrum 3847 Coach/Mentor. You can watch our matches here: http://ift.tt/2unCMsq Our photo gallery can be found here: http://ift.tt/2uOir1u Full Press Release: http://ift.tt/2vYoWx1 Timelapse of TRR 2017 SPECTaculaR Summer Class the next Two Weeks “SPECTaculaR” is a two week course for the Boys and Girls Club July 31 to August 11. Since 2012 our students have designed and implemented a curriculum for SPECTaculaR that teaches engineering principles to children in the third to eighth grades. We know this STEM mentoring works and make a difference for kids. I am very proud of my students commitment to STEM outreach.” said Spectrum 3847 Coach Allen Gregory IV. Follow us on social media Website = www.spectrum3847.org Blog = Blog.spectrum3847.org Photos = photos.spectrum3847.org Twitter = http://twitter.com/spectrum3847 Facebook = http://ift.tt/2dwip2y Instagram = http://ift.tt/2cTk6tu Youtube = http://youtube.com/spectrum3847 Copyright © 2017 Spectrum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Spectrum 9000 Bellaire Blvd Houston, TX 77036 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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Awesome Performance at IRI, TRR is coming up

Indiana Robotics Invitational July 14-15th View this email in your browser IRI Recap Houston, TX -- July 19, 2017 --   After a successful regular season, members of the Spectrum 3847 Strake Jesuit College Preparatory and St. Agnes Academy, engineering team packed up their robot and headed for the Midwest on July 14 & 15 where they competed against the best FIRST Robotics Competition teams from the United States, Canada and Mexico.   Spectrum 3847 was in the top 14 for the alliance selections. TechFire 225 picked Spectrum as their first choice for the #7 alliance. Sparky 384 and Panther Tech 292 completed the alliance The #7 alliance lost in the quarterfinals against the #2 alliance of EngiN 2337 & OP Robotics 2056 & Greater Rochester Robotics 340 & Hilltopers 1732. You can watch our matches here: http://ift.tt/2unCMsq Timelapse of our pit at IRI Mentor of the Year: Allen Gregory Spectrum 3847 Mentor Allen Gregory was awarded the IRI Mentor of the Year. He was recognized for developing his students as well rounded professionals, and blending technical with strong communication skills while he builds great friendships with all his team members. He is active in the robotics community; pouring his time into the volunteering as an FRC Lead Robot Inspector, VEX Robotics Head Referee, and helping provide online resources for robotics teams world wide. Allen said “I’m honored to receive such great award, the students on Spectrum are the real reason for any honor that I receive they work countless hours to help make STEM education better for numerous students.” TRR is July 28th and July 29th Our next event is coming up quickly in Austin. This is a small event with only 24 teams. It's a great event to get more of member experience driving the robot and running the team event operations. Watch the action live at TheBlueAlliance.com Follow us on social media Website = www.spectrum3847.org Blog = Blog.spectrum3847.org Photos = photos.spectrum3847.org Twitter = http://twitter.com/spectrum3847 Facebook = http://ift.tt/2dwip2y Instagram = http://ift.tt/2cTk6tu Youtube = http://youtube.com/spectrum3847 Copyright © 2017 Spectrum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Spectrum 9000 Bellaire Blvd Houston, TX 77036 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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