PAReX Meeting Notes

The new east side meeting place at ASU Technology building is certainly a great find. There are a lot of cool looking projects to explore. The atmosphere is just right for hobby roboticists! This meeting started off on a mini tour of the facility and a description of some of the projects by one of the ASU Students Dan Burns.

9 Attendees
• John Kittelsrud
• Mike Linnen
• Bob Bayless
• Kelly Small
• James Armstrong
• Mike Bloom
• Dave Henderson
• Jacob Thorp
• Dan Burns

A lot of business was handled at this meeting. Officers where elected as follows

President:	John Kittelsrud
Secretary:	Bob Bayless
Webmaster:	Mike Linnen
Treasurer:	Unkown

May 18th was picked for the Maze/Sumo competition at the Challenger Learning Center in Peoria. This date has been confirmed with the Challenger Center. We will be conducting the event at the bottom floor of the facility. There is plenty of room to set up tables for robot demos and the plan is to have 4 sumo rings and 1 maze in the center of the room. The competition will be open to all. A single class for Sumo bots. Two classes for the Maze(Novice and Advanced) There will be another web page created to cover all the particulars for this event. Dave Henderson agreed to build a box to validate the Sumo Bots size restrictions. We are in search of a good scale to use during the event. Mike Linnen and Kelly Small volunteered to donate their Sumo Rings. We still need two more Sumo rings to complete the setup. John Kittelsrud volunteered to help out on making some educational material, but I am sure he would gladly accept some assistance

Web Site
The website facelift was welcomed by all. John Kittelsrud is rounding up some additional photos to place on the meeting and event archives. All attendees agreed that Bob Bayless's Bot of the Month idea was cool. Mike Bloom agreed to help out on some perl scripting if it is needed for the Member Profiles area.

Speaker From MicroChip
Dave Henderson said this is a sure thing. He was just waiting for the new east side meeting place to get ironed out before setting a date on when this could happen.

Hamilton High Science Fair
No new details on when this is happening. We suspect it will be the beginning of March.

High Science competition
This was not discussed since Andy M. was missing.

PAReX Club Dues
It was suggested that dues should be collected every time we do elections.

PAReX Meeting Pictures

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