Design Options

We met last night to discuss our design options.  Tom Kew-Goodale who has been with us the past two years convinced us into looking at something other then a rectangular frame for this year's robot.  Overcoming objections made by other members of the team, he convinced us to, at least create a mockup of his idea.  As the kick-off has not occurred yet and since we have no idea of what's coming, I decided, as team mentor to let them have a crack at it.  Tom will be in charge of creating the mathematical model necessary for the symmetry that I demand, and then we will build the mockup out of wood.

                                                    Stephen Kew-Goodale
                                                    Executive Director
                                                    The Weatherly Institute for Robotics and Engineering

New Season

A new season is upon us and a new series of players will take the field for team 1634.  Before we begin to look forward, I must,  in all honesty look to the recent past.  Of the eight seniors that finished the year with W.I.R.E. and graduated in June 2007, five have gone on to take engineering at their schools or colleges.  In an age when people say our young people don't care about our future, I say look at  these kids, they are the future, and I am proud to have worked with each and everyone of them.  

Our newly elected student organization President is Andrew Vack, a second year member of the program, he served as our team mascot last year.  A team mascot is the one person we take from the eighth grade and bring them in, to see what the competition looks and feels like from a ground level.  Although the mascots do not contribute significantly to the program they do hit the ground running as they enter the ninth grade.  This is the case with Andrew and I look forward to having him work with me as the student liaison to W.I.R.E.  for the next four years.  I find that this continuity is extremely important and that mistakes made are made only once and are not repeated. 

                                                    Stephen Kew-Goodale
                                                    Executive Director
                                                    The Weatherly Institute for Robotics and Engineering