On
Saturday, February 13, from 2-4 p.m., the Robettes will be hosting an open
house at their downtown St. Paul
build location to show their progress and also discuss the details of our program. All are welcome to attend! The open house will
take place at the Allen
Building: 411 Broadway Street, St. Paul, MN 55101. Contact Ms. Knatterud with questions.
The New
Year has started out busy for the Robettes, Visitation’s Upper School Robotics
Team.
The F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Competition kickoff was held at the U of M on
January 9, 2010. At the kickoff, the
challenge of the year was released. Within the next six
weeks, the Robettes will be designing, engineering and building a robot to face
the challenge, which is an assigned task that the robot is specifically built to be able to perform.
Two days after the kickoff at the U of M, the Robettes hosted a fundraiser at Granite City
in Eagan. Thank
you to all who came out to support them and help make the fundraiser successful!
Members
of the robotics team also spoke at Friendly Hills Middle School,
in Mendota Heights. The team demonstrated a robot in honor of
the fifth graders’ “Invention Convention.”
Both the Robettes and the fifth graders enjoyed discussing the design
process and driving the robot.
Click here for photos of these recent events.