Broncobots Blog

After having been involved for the first four years, we, Emma, Tom, and Becky, thought it important to document the things Team 1987 faced, overcame, and accomplished. Because we were at every meeting, volunteer event, presentation, build day, or competition event, we believe that our memories, combined with all the wonderful photographs taken by Lisa Smith (and others) should be shared. We chose to do so by writing this book.

It has 118 pages with around 520 photographs and it highlights each build season and the subsequent competition events. Also included are all the submitted documents that took us to the Championship in Atlanta three years in a row.

This book tells the story of what it takes to be a humble and very successful FIRST® team.

We did a bulk order through emails already. If you responded/paid, we have accounted for your order. So far, we ordered 24 books which should be here in a few weeks. If you didn’t respond to us and would like to buy one, you can buy one online. Here is the Blurb bookstore preview and order website: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/1030061/3d956800543b3f2a9fb4bf27e5daf8a8

We are very excited to finally publish this book. We have been working on it for many weeks. Going through pictures to choose the perfect shots as well as following our progress in words took hundreds of hours, and we feel it is a great representation of Team 1987’s first four years. If there are any questions about the book, please email: thand@kc.rr.com.

We hope you enjoy it. To see the first 15 pages of the book, go to the link above.

This is my last work as a Broncobot. It has been an honor since the start!!

We had members of our team, including new members, along with our robot at the Mason Elementary Carnival yesterday. If you didn’t see us, we were between a clown and moon bounce. After a few successful shoots, the launcher started to overdrive, so let’s hope it was due to the low battery and low air pressure! A few more pictures will be coming soon. Thank you for everyone who stopped by, along with the team members who came.

We were excited.

Yesterday, the 25th, I along with Chris from Team Driven and the teacher sponsors from Blue Springs Robotics Team ( http://www.wildcatrobotics.com/  ) traveled to Honeywell to talk to actual engineers and electricians and computer people  about robotics. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, we hope that we recruited more mentors for teams around KC!

Today, the Broncobots are going to be in the Lee’s Summit North Homecoming Parade. We are going to have a float with our robot on it, along with many of the team ‘tossing’ candy to the watchers
Here’s the banner we are going to put on the side of the trailer (the homecoming theme is ‘Take a Walk on the Boardwalk’, like Monopoly the game)

Watch for updates from the parade hopefully later! (NASCAR Race weekend in Missouri and Kansas!! Wooooooo!)

Wednesday night was our handing out of the letter’s ceremony, and the awesome Lisa photographed the event (thank you!!). Also, thanks to Debbie S for organizing everything and getting goodies and thanks to the parents who also supplied food. Thanks for the great attendance!

Mr. Reynold’s opening speech.

Emma receiving her 2007 letter.

Logan picking up his 2007 robotics letter.

Lee!!!

Sarah

Jake

James

B-Rizzle

Zac

Nathan with coordinating shoes (not pictured )

WOOOHOOO!!!!!

Little Hayley receiving a letter for her first year on the team, 2008.

Haley R

Kate (Is picture perfect, or what?!)

You can identify two kids on our team by their hats. Zach and Lee.
Zach.

We love Debbie S!!

Dylan

Richard and some of the crowd.

James’ mom, and Zac’s family

Joella’s baby!!!!!!!!!!

Delicious desserts

Mom’s in aprons

Logan and Richard

Huge thanks to Lisa for the fantastic pictures

Wednesday, August 13th, at 7pm in the Lecture Hall, we are having a reception where the letters will be given out. Come enjoy desserts and lemonade and hang out with our team before school starts.