Team applications are being accepted! We can have up to 10 people on our team. We will use a google doc form this year. Parents and students will need to work together to complete the form.
Apply Here
The application form will be open through the 31st of May, after which we will chose the new team. The fee to be on the team this year will be $150. This lets us by snacks/parts/t-shirts/etc., pay for competition entrance fees, etc. If we go beyond State there will be additional fees.
Good luck!
Monday, May 15, 2017
Friday, February 24, 2017
Donate to Gallant Hearts!
Kroger Community Rewards is a program that will donate a portion of your purchase price to the charitable organization you choose.
To sign up (the first time) for Kroger Community Rewards:
- Visit the Enrollment page
- Create an account if you do not already have one (Select “Create an Account” and give them your information.)
- Once you have an account, sign in if you are not already signed in.
- Click on the “Community” menu item
- Click on the “Kroger Community Rewards” option.
- Select “Enroll Now”
- You’ll need to “Add a Plus Card” if you have not already. This links your purchases to your rewards program.
- Scroll down to “Community Rewards” and select “Enroll”
- Enter your information and select enter.
- Search for “Gallant Hearts”.
- Select “Gallant Hearts Guide Dog Center #63992” and click enroll.
- Start shopping!
Amazon Smile is a rewards program through amazon.com. Amazon.com will donate 0.5% of your purchase price to the charitable organization you choose.
Frequently Asked Questions about Amazon Smile.
How to sign up:
- Visit https://smile.amazon.com
- Log in to your account, if needed
- Under “Pick your own charitable organization” search on “Gallant Hearts”
- Next to “Gallant Hearts Guide Dog Center” choose select
- Start shopping!
Friday, December 9, 2016
Coopertition
By Stella E.
Integration
By: Lauren K.
To our team integration mean that we apply skills from robotics into everyday life. For example, Stella works in the library. A few days ago there was a girl who was sad and she helped her to be happy. I learned that it is important to respect others and be nice to them, so I have worked hard at being nicer and more respectful to my brother.
Discovery
By Stella E.
Discovery
To me discovery is beginning with the end in mind by focusing and understanding the big rocks to create a plan. Our team used this core value a lot at the beginning of the season. We discovered that communication and leadership are important.
Puppy Training Boot Camp Project
By Jonathan E. and Donovan B.
For blind people, seeing eye dogs are their eyes
to help them do tasks that the rest of us take for granted. Picking up
something that fell on the floor. Avoiding a car about to cross the crosswalk.
Not running into aisles and displays in the store. Finding a seat in a
restaurant. Finding the door just to walk into a store. Seeing eye dogs are
truly a companion in a world of darkness. There are many, many blind people who
want and need seeing eye dogs, including those in our community, but cannot get
one because there are not enough seeing eye dogs raised each year.
Students from the Bowmar Robotics team worked to
help with this problem. They organized a “Puppy Training Boot Camp” to help
inform our community about Gallant Hearts, a local non-profit seeing-eye dog
training organization. Gallant Hearts raises seeing-eye dogs for the blind, and
they provide them free of charge. However, it takes a lot of money to raise and
train a seeing-eye dog.
There are two effective ways our community can
help. First, sign up for a corporate donation program such as AmazonSmile and
Kroger Community Rewards. These programs do not cost us, the customer,
anything, but they are a great source of funds. Second, be a puppy training
family. Seeing-eye dogs start out life as puppies in training. Gallant Hearts
will pay for their food and veterinarian care. All you need to do as a family
is to love and care for the puppy and help socialize them so they get used to
going to lots of different environments. After 18 months you have to give up
the puppy so that the puppy can be trained and become a seeing-eye dog for a
blind person in need.
The Puppy Training Boot Camp was held at
PetSense last Saturday. We want to thank Rhonda Henley at PetSense, Becky Floyd
of Gallant Hearts, May (Becky’s guide dog), and Lindsey Jordan of Vicksburg Dog
Obedience Classes, and all the people who helped to put it on, as well as all
of the people who signed up for the community rewards programs.
If you would like to donate, the links for the
corporate donation programs are: http://smile.amazon.com/ and https://www.kroger.com/account/enrollCommunityRewardsNow. You can also donate directly to Gallant Hearts by visiting http://gallanthearts.org/contact-gallant-hearts/. Your support will truly help someone in need.
Gallant Hearts is a non-profit charity that has
helped countless blind people have a companion who helps them have a new window
into the world we take for granted. Helping Gallant Hearts will help numerous
blind people feel and be more able. Please donate today and consider being a
puppy training family!
Game Day Checklist
By Aaron B.
Here is my checklist for things to bring to the competition:
Here is my checklist for things to bring to the competition:
- Robot (charge it the night before!)
- Robot charging cord, USB cord
- Attachments
- Cart, if using one
- Core Values Board and any materials
- Project Presentation Materials
- Robot Design Materials
- Buttons or other give-aways
- Buttons or give-aways for judges
- Costume needs
- Extension cords, surge protectors (sometimes the venue has power available, sometime not.)
- Lego building sets (can keep in car if you are feeling confident)
- Drinks/snacks (they'll buy all the sugary stuff, so bring something non-sugary)
- Lunch $
- Camp chairs (at least for adults!)
- Laptop w/ power cord (for last minute tweaking of programs)
- Spare AA batteries w/ battery cover for EV3 (in case something goes really wrong with your battery, which has happened to us before.)
- Team paperwork
- Check for competition fee
- Tote to store jackets, etc., under table
- Signage/decoration for table
- Frisbee/football/etc. to play with at lunch time. Keep in car until lunch.
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