» Fall 2010 Open House
» August 28th, 2010

It’s that time of year again! The Penn State Robotics Club will be hosting our semester Open House event, where anyone and everyone is invited to come and visit us, and see what the club can do for you!

There will be free pizza and drinks; everyone is invited. Feel free to bring friends and get ready for a fun and intense semester. We will introduce our new in-house competition, as well as talk about the international competitions we are involved with.

The Open House will be this Wednesday, September 1st, 7pm in 312 Hammond.

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» Trinity Fire Fighting challenge & semester conclusion
» April 12th, 2010

The Penn State Robotics Club would like to thank all four teams that have represented Penn State at this year’s Trinity Fire Fighting competition. All four of these teams have competed with varying degrees success, as well as have all well represented the Penn State name! Special congratulations are in order for team “Twitcher 2.0“, who were the only team to completely put out a flame. Team “Zephyrus” did a great job navigating the maze as the fastest robot of all four of our submissions. We hope to bring these teams to the Abington Fire Fighting challenge, to continue their success.

You can see our event photos and videos on our media page.

The semester is coming to an end, and new positions are available! Any and all club members are highly encouraged to come to next weeks meeting to vote for new club officers. Your voice and vote counts! Interested in becoming an officer? Talk to any of the current officers and we will help answer any questions you may have. Don’t forget to come to our end-of-semester club Barbecue after the elections to enjoy some time with the club out and about at a local park. Stay tuned for more information.

The RoboWiki has had security permissions removed, so you may now edit or add any existing or new content without having to sign-in!

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» PSU Teams to be Participating in the Trinity Compitition
» March 31st, 2010

The Penn State Robotics club will have multiple teams vying for the prize in the Trinity Firefighting Competition, a maze and object finding competition set as a way to test designs for fire prevention robots. The tabletop-sized competition is held each spring by Trinity College in Connecticut, where multiple colleges and robotics teams gather to see whose design can most efficiently navigate a maze in order to find a burning candle and extinguish it, optionally returning to their starting point afterward. This year, Penn State will have four teams competing:

Team Jazzy, a two person team consisting of Drew Schmitt and Richard Lichkus.
Team Plexo, made up of Jon Checkan, Jillian Newhall, Spenser Bauman, and Mohammed Alburaiki.
Team Zephyrus, run by Tom McCauley and Jon Frisch.
Team Twitcher 2.0, involving the duo Daniel Grandy and Joseph Gensel.

Good luck to our teams!

In other club news, we have published our 2010 Sponsorship Letter and 2010 Sponsorship Packet. The club is actively searching for sponsorship to help us pay for the costs associated with robotic competitions and upkeep of our club materials.

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» 2010 Broomball Event
» March 29th, 2010

This past Saturday, the ACM and Robotics Club hosted our 2nd 2010 social event, which was an ice-rink Broomball event. Over 30 members showed up between both clubs and had a great time! Check out our group photos taken at the end of the event here. If you have ideas for future robotics club events, contact any of our club officers.

In other news, the club is continuing preparing ourselves for the Trinity Fire Fighting challenge as well as the Mini Grand challenge. Club t-shirts and hoodies will be available soon!

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» Trinity Fire Fighting Challenge
» March 22nd, 2010

The club is in the process of finalizing Trinity Fire Fighting Challenge teams. If you are part of the Robotics Club and would like to participate in the Trinity Fire Fighting Challenge, we need your team roster and a team/robot name! Contact Jeremy Bridon (jgb5034@psu.edu) with your roster (full names, phone numbers, and emails) as well as a team/robot name.

There isn’t too much space left, so contact us by Wednesday, March 24th, at the latest. Best of luck to our competing teams!

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