2010 Team is on our Way!

The 2010 Roboraiders are geared up and headed for Cookeville and Tennessee Tech University for the FLL statewide competition!
You can see the dress rehearsal here on the CMS website. 
We'll post photos when we can!

Home Stretch - making plans

We're in the home stretch, the kids are working hard. We hope you all can come see them perform tomorrow, they need an audience!

Mr. Odom had asked me to look into places to go out to dinner after the competition. It will be 5-5:30 before we're done at the college, and it's such a long ride home, we find it's fun to go out together and eat and celebrate (or wallow in our misery, whatever.)

I've looked around and identified several places - our favorite place we went two years ago is no longer in business - but there are two main streets on our way to the highway that have a lot of chain restaurants that will be just as good.

I'd like to be able to call ahead, and make sure they can handle a crowd - so I need to know two things from everybody:
1. if you will be driving yourself, will you be coming to dinner with the group?
2. would you prefer a buffet like Golden Corral or a sit down place like Applebees or O'Charley's (or Chili's, or Logan's).

You can post a comment here, or email me directly!
Jenn White

A Great Learning Experience!

The trip to Channel 3 was a great experience for parents and students alike!
There were seven or eight teams participating - each team got to run their robot three times.
During the first run, parents got a tour of the studio - we got to see all the behind the scenes stuff from the news room, to the control room, to the editing bays. Later on, the kids got to visit with two of the meteorologists, Paul Barys and Neal Pascal, and ask them questions about climate change. It was a wonderful day, we learned a LOT about what needs to be done to be ready for Cookeville. Thanks to Mr. Odom and all the parents who came and helped out!

Almost There - still need help

Wow, the competition is coming up QUICK! We have a few more practices we will need snacks at, and we need to think of a giveaway we can put together or purchase soon. If we want each kid to have 10 things to hand out/swap, we will need 12o (to include alternates). Any ideas? These should be small enough to stick in your pocket, but the 'wow' factor is fun! Anything we do will need to have our team name, and perhaps school name and city on it. If you have a suggestion or idea, please email me or leave a comment here!

SNACKS - Thanks to Leigh Ann Coats who is paying attention and noticed nobody stepped up for Thursday, so she offered to handle Tues and Thurs herself.
We will need extra snacks for the week after Thanksgiving - that will be a long week with long practices and good 'brain food' is always appreciated.

December:
Monday 1
Tuesday 2
Wednesday 3
Thursday 4
Friday 5

We also usually have a large cooler full of cold water bottles go on the bus with us, if anyone can get that together, please shout! Leave a comment on this post, or email me at jenn (AT) scrappersworkshop.com
Thanks everyone!

SNACK UPDATE!

Thanks to everyone who's supplied snacks so far, I know the kids appreciate it!
We have a couple of dates still open:
Oct 30 Th
Nov 4 Tue
Nov 6 Th
Nov 18 Tue
Nov 20 Th
- If you can do any of these, please email jenn: jenn ( at ) scrappersworkshop.com
or post a comment in the previous post:
http://roboraiders.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-season-new-team-big-dreams.html

New Season, New Team - BIG DREAMS!

Welcome everybody to the 2008-2009 RoboRaiders!

We've set up a snack schedule - I will post it here and update it as I have new information. If you'd like to bring snack on a particular date, just leave a comment with your name and your student's name and the dates, and I'll edit the list.
Mr. Odom has asked that we keep the snacks reasonably healthy, not too sticky, and easy to get out/clean up. Water bottles and finger food snacks are perfect!

RoboRaiders - Snack Schedule

Sept 23 Tue Leigh Ann Coats
Sept 25 Th Jennifer White

Sept 30 Tue Leigh Ann Coats
Oct 2 Th Jennifer White

Oct 7 Tue Richelle Shelton
Oct 9 Th Richelle Shelton

Oct 14 Tue Melissa Roberts
Oct 16 Th FALL BREAK NO SCHOOL

Oct 21 Tue Lisa Wofford
Oct 23 Th Lisa Wofford

Oct 28 Tue Bella Ngo
Oct 30 Th

Nov 4 Tue
Nov 6 Th

Nov 11 Tue Julie Fuller
Nov 13 Th Julie Fuller


Nov 18 Tue LeighAnn Coats
Nov 20 Th

CONGRATULATIONS TEAMS!

Our teams did really well at this years' tournament! The highlight of the day was when BOTH teams were called back to do their presentations for all the judges! They both really stepped it up a notch, and gave their best performances yet! The judges must have thought so too, because the White Team came in 6th and the Blue Team came in 4th out of 50 teams for Presentation!

WHITE TEAM

BLUE TEAMMore photos will be posted soon, but we wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS teams!!