Met with the WT Woodson Robotics Club Today

I had my first meeting with the WT Woodson Robotics Club today. I was not able to get to the kick off or to last week's demo due to work commitments. I mostly went around looking at the electronics lab and robotics lab setups. The gang were busy building robots as an exercise. The teacher let me know that the club would be participating in a robotic exercise starting in November, so the amount of activity in the club has increased dramatically. I overheard that there are about three times the number of students signed up than there were last year. That is a great achievement and reflects greatly on the students that were in the club last year getting the word out. I got to meet a few of them and was able to talk about some of my ideas for the KIPR Open. I let the teacher know that I had the okay to come and help on Wednesdays. Most of the other days I am tied up doing one thing or another at work and I now have classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of the year.

I have a feeling that I will not be shy of students that want to help with the robots for the KIPR Open this year. So, I am committed to getting everyone involved as soon as I know what the challenge is. That should be arriving next week and will give me a chance to study tactics before I meet with the group. I am hoping that I will be able to contribute as much as I can to help with everyones interest in robotics. It looks like it is going to be an interesting year.