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donation drive organized by local FIRST teams. The megadrive asked local teams to donate scrap electronics, canned foods, and children’s books. I want to thank every one who helped with the recy-cling of electronics. Our team won the award for “Most Electronics Donat-ed”
The event was a success, our team members played hard. All of our offseason time and commitment really paid off. After the elimination matches our team was ranked 6th out of 38. During alliance selection we picked team 3003 Tan[x] and team 3044 OxBE4. Through
On Saturday October 28, 2012 Team 3015 Ranger Robotics competed at the Rochester Ruckus. The Ruckus is a FIRST off-season event held annual-ly which is a replay of the previous years game. The
event allows new mem-bers to experience a com-petition and older mem-bers a chance to hone their skills for the upcom-ing competition season. In addition to the competi-tion, teams competing also participated in a mega
tough play and teamwork we were able to upset the third alliance and make it to the semifinals. Even know we lost in the semi-finals we were able
to pull off the infamous “triple bal-ance!!” All in all, the day was a success and we look forward to working with all of our new team members and mentors in the fu-ture.
Rochester Ruckus b y J a k e W i n g a t e
Fundraiser—Sticky Lips b y K r i s t i S h i l l i e t o
Team 3015 will be having a
Sticky Lips fundraiser on
Tuesday November 20th at
the Senior High School
Parking Lot, at 3:30pm
until the food runs out.
Your meal will consist of a
quarter chicken, a pile of
pulled pork, and a choice
of 2 sides (Cajun corn,
baked beans, mustard cole-
slaw, and mac salad), and
every meal comes with
piece of corn bread. All reve-
nue go to the Spencerport
Ranger Robotics team to pay
for building the robot and
regional registration fees.
The cost of the meal will be
$11. If you are interested in
Purchasing a ticket, contact Mr. Gal-
lina or Mr. O’Connor. Thank you for
your support!
Important Dates
Sticky Lips Money Due–
November 14, 2012 after-
school meeting
BBQ Fundraiser – Novem-
ber 20, 2012 3:30—7:00 PM
HS East Parking Lot
Cabinet Meetings– Tues-
day’s during Advisement
Evening Meetings
November 27, 2012
6pm-9pm
Parent Meeting -
January 3, 2013
Ranger Robotics
Team 3015
3015 ROBO
News
Inside this issue:
Rochester Ruckus 1
Sticky lips fundraiser 1
New Sponsors 2
FIRST Robotics News 2
Meet the Cabinet 2
Alumini Spotlight 3
Sponsor List 4
November 2012 Volume 1 Issue 2
Visit our team website!
www.rangerrobot.com
Ranger Robotics would like to thank Ankom Technology, XLI, Loeweke Brill and the Spencerport Teacher’s Union for their generous donation’s to Team 3015. Their sponsorship dollars go 100% back to Team 3015 for registration fees, robot build, and travel expenses.
FIRST Team 3015
would like to wel-
come Stephanie
Bischoping to our
family. She will be
Mr. Gallina’s stu-
dent teacher until
December. She has a wealth of FIRST
experience and is a welcomed addition
to the team. Ms. Bischoping was the
PAM subteam leader at FIRST
Teamm340 for three years while she
was in high school.
Meet the Cabinet
On October 4, 2012, our team elected our 2012—2013 Team 3015 Cabinet. The Cabinet will work closely with the team ad-visors to make team deci-sions from robot build to fundraising. The cabinet meets every Tuesday dur-ing Advise-
bility of FIRST Choice and PDV’s mean that teams may need to plan a little extra time for part selec-tion and shipping.
To help teams plan and prepare for the season, FIRST Choice has released a few key dates…..
November 12
FIRST Choice opens for “window shopping
December 10
FIRST Choice opens for orders For more information please visit the 10/25/2012 FRC blog list below:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-10-25-2012
As more Kit of Parts items shift from the Kickoff Kit to FIRST® Choice and the Virtual Kit (e.g. Product Donation Vouchers, PDVs), teams will receive fewer items in the Kickoff Kit each year, but have a wid-er variety and volume of items from which to choose that may meet their specific needs better. However, the added flexi-
Page 2 3015 ROBO News
FIRST Robotics News— “An early option”
New Sponsor’s 3015 Celebrations
(Jordan Amering, Nick Ferguson,
Kristi Shilleito, Jake Wingate)
ment to discuss upcoming team events and any issues that may arise
2012-2013 Cabinet
President: Jake Wingate
VP : Nick Ferguson
Secretary: Jordan Amering
Treasurer: Kristi Shilleito
Name: Amanda Clapper, Class of 2010 College: Clarkson University
Degree: Dual major Chemical Engineering and Applied Mathematics
School work and classes occupy most of my time, but when I am not in class or doing homework I spend most of my time taking part in the many robotics programs offered at Clarkson University. I participate in Clarkson Micro Robotics team and was fortunate enough to travel to Japan to compete with the team last year. Also I mentor the two FRC teams that Clarkson mentors and funds, team 229 and team 4124. While on Team 3015 the most memorable moment I have would need to be our first time going to a competition. It was the Lunacy game our first year and when we went to compete at the Finger Lakes Regional we were able to place high enough to select our own alliance, we were paired up against the first seed alliance in our first match of qualifications. During the first of three matches against the first seed alliance we were able to pin one of their best robots and score the entire time on them which led to us winning the first match, even though we lost the next, the energy and excitement during that first match is something I will never forget. Being on Team 3015 and participating in FIRST has gave me great experience working with others and working under a short and firm deadline. The skills I learned on the team have helped me in my school, my teams, my research and my internships. FIRST and Team 3015 are great and the experience that high school students learn in both of them is unparalleled by any other program.
Name: Lowell Ferguson College: Rochester Institute of Technology
Degree: Master’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering
Mr. Ferguson works at Exelis as Imaging Systems Chief Engineer. This is his second year men-
toring FIRST team 3015. He became a mentor after watching the energy, and sleep depriva-
tion, of the build season from his kids (Micaela, SHS class of 2011, & Nick SHS class of 2013) on
prior years. Involvement with the team allows him to spend time with Nick, and now Erinn
(SHS class of 2015), in a different avenue than occurs in the normal parent/child interac-
tion. The opportunity to share years of electrical and software engineering experience with
high school students excited him and what continues to thrill Mr. Ferguson about FIRST ro-
botics in general, and specifically team 3015. His favorite moment with the team was seeing
the team excitement at the Penfield High’s “Rochester Rally” as the robot (Marlene) came to
life last year, although witnessing the T-shirt
deployment system tests over the summer is a
very close second
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Mentor Bio
Alumni News
"Seeing the spark in a student's eye's as their math and science classes are
applied to make a robot run is inspiring. The mutual reinforcement
between their classes and FIRST, encourages many of these kids to pursue
becoming the engineers this world needs." ~ Mr. Ferguson
Discount Card
On Saturday December 1, Team 3015
will be blitzing the community with our
Discount Cards. As many of you know
this is our main and largest fundraiser for
the year. We believe that this year’s
card is the best that we have ever pro-
duced. The card will sell for $10 and is
good for the entire 2013 year.
Ranger Robotics
Team 3015
Spencerport High School
2707 Spencerport Rd
Spencerport, NY 14559
E-mail:
Sponsor Bio Team Advisors:
Tim O’Connor
Joe Gallina
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not-for-profit financial organization, wholly and locally owned and operat-ed by and for its members.
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Serving its members in the Rochester community since 1931, AFCU
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A volunteer board of directors governs Advantage.
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