12/29/01 AHRC meeting minutes Officers Present: Frank Borowiec - President Richard Bodor - Co-Vice President Clint Bridges - Treasurer 24 attendees Frank made introductions and explained agenda to the attendees. Club Business - Treasurer's report - Clint gave a quick report on club finances. Club membership is due on January of the year. robot rally report - Richard and Frank gave a report on the SciTrek meeting. Don Brown gave a report Richard asked for volunteers for the home-schooling program at scitrek to be held on january 9th, 2002. Nominations continue. There were no new nominations. Elections were held. the new officers for 2002 are: President: Frank Borowiec Co-Vice Presidents: Bob Baxter and Paul Burrell Secretary: Richard Bodor Treasurer: Clint Bridges The next meeting will be coordinated by the new officers. The club wants to thank the outgoing officers, who served selflessly over the past year. The club's thanks go out to Frank Borowiec, Richard Bodor, Barry Ward, Calvin Grier, and Clint Bridges. The web pages have been updated to reflect the new events for 2002. Richard brought in a copy of the tri-fold collateral material provided to SciTrek. Richard also passed around a sign up sheet for the robot rally staff positions. staff will be given a t-shirt and free entry to scitrek on the day of the robot rally. Frank mentioned that during the upcoming robot rally, we want all contestants to have a table and some printed material about their robot ready for the attendees to evaulate the robots during the competition. RBNO - Clint will be posting a new RBNO schedule on the web page. New Members - Katherine Marting - heard about the club through her father. Video - no video Show and tell - Ringo has brought some freebies in it included lav microphones, some dc adapters, and some rs-232 cables. Royce brought in Uno for the sumo competition. Galen Hussey brought some freebies in from the GA Tech physics lab. Jared Hussey brought in a Lego train Nicholas Frank brought in a new sumo bot called Norbert. I has a lance and this unit replaces Frankenstein. John Marting brought in BAT, his mini-sumo. Also he got mindstorms for xmas and made a sumo Yellow Dragon. Sean Hussey brought in his transmission bot, he uses parts from several lego kits.Don Brown brought in a thumb drive - its a hard drive that hooks up to a usb port. Presentation: There was no presentation Mini-Sumo Contest: There were 6 competitors: · Delta Force · BAT · Yellow Dragon · Norbert · Robor's Bane · Uno Delta Force won. Check the web page for pictures and full results. The next meeting is Saturday January 26, 2002. NOTE:After the meeting, we were informed that the meetings will no longer be held at Radioshack.com. The club members are thankful to Radioshack for providing such a nice meeting location for the past few years. Bodor