1、Early Promotion,Our newly found team first got a taste of robotics on March 26, 2001. Our teacher, Mrs. Martaindale, who had just moved here that year, was formerly from Gunter, Texas where they have a big robotics program.,The Gunter robotics team came and did a demonstration on basically what robo
2、tics is. From that we would decide how our school would go about putting together a program for robotics.,The Gunter team brought their robots that day & a makeshift playing field to play on. The let us have hands on experience driving the robot. They showed us everything that robotics is about from
3、 the spirit that is involved to the parts used on the complicated robot. The experienced robotics team also gave us ideas for names of our team, of our robot, and even our team shirts. That was the day that we decided to found the first robotics team in Port Aransas school history.,Gunter HS JoinsPo
4、rt Aransasfor a Demo,FALL 2001,SA B.E.S.T.,Hosted by St. Marys University In San Antonio, TX,Sponsors & Community Outreach,We would like to begin by thanking our sponsors Pizzaria, Beach Picnic and Kiwanis. Also parents made us cookies. We did not go hungry and our shirts look great. Thanks!,Kwaina
5、Club,The Port Aransas Playing Field,Our website was design to allow access to the public about our robotics activities. It has links to our members, photo album, and other information on Island Robotics.,Our website,Please visit us at: bigfish.port-aransas.k12.tx.us.,OUR Robotics logo,Double Edge Sw
6、ord = Competition Bird = Friendship and Fair Play Gear = Mechanics Shell = The Island.,The Port Aransas logo stands for many things.,Hunter Grant & James Cantu,Designers:,Mentors,Steve Martindale is a freelance writer and has been for nine years. He also has 18 years of experience in the newspaper b
7、usiness.Maggie who is from Parks and Recreation has worked hard with our documentation process. She also works with the Latch Key program at PAISD. Marc Teller worked for PAHS for many years. In June of this year, he began working for the University as an AC Tech.,Teachers,Leah Martaindale teaches F
8、reshman English, Pre-AP English Yearbook, and Speech. In addition, she heads up the robotics team.,John Schepper works the CATE Department of PAHS. He teaches Construction I, Construction 2, Small Engine Repair and mentors middle school children.,Monica Pierce is the Career and Technology Education
9、Coordinator for PAISD. She teaches the Career Prep and BCIS I courses.,All Port A Robotics Day,Denny shows kids how his model works!,Robotics Day was held on September 22, 2001 from 10a.m. to 12p.m. In planning Robotics Day, we printed up flyers and posted them around the city inviting everyone to j
10、oin us. We wanted to let the town know what Robotics is all about.,Some community members gave us ideas on how to put the robot together. Having more knowledge, we are more prepared to build.,As well as HS and Middle School students, about 20 people joined us. We passed out business cards, so that t
11、hey would remember us and visit our website.,Although it was a rainy Saturday, we still managed to have fun and play with remote control trucks and motorcycles outside of our construction shop.,School Organizations,Our yearbook class volunteered to take care of our photography needs.The Splash, our
12、high school newspaper, wrote an article about The Island Robotics Team. They published it in the September issue. Band gave us a drum for cheerleading.The Art department provided us with military paint colors.,BCIS I class made business cards for us and are scanning and editing our pictures. The sch
13、ool is helping out a lot.,The National Honors Society makes daily announcements reminding students about robotics meetings.,Finally, we have our Robotics team - there are 168 students at Port Aransas High School; about 12% are involved in robotics.,The future,The future plans for Robotics has three
14、segments: demonstrations to other high schools creation of a new hub a springtime robotics program here at PAHS.,Demonstrations in South Texas,There are 5 Corpus Christi High Schools. We would like to visit each one and encourage them to generate a robotics team. This would help us in accomplishing
15、our second goal for the future. We want to begin a hub in the Corpus Christi / South Texas area.,Mr. Rouse interviewed by James Cantu,Contact B.E.S.T. - Request information packet about hubs,Starting a hub in Corpus Christi,2. Mr. Rouse, our superintendent, began the robotics program at TX A&M-Colle
16、ge Station. His contacts can provide additional needed information.,Starting a Hub (cont.),4. A logistics committee must be created.,Valero Southwest Bell Acker Marine Coastal Bend Tech Prep Koch Industries Central Power & Light McDermott Diamond Shamrock Dupont Oxy Chem.,3. Sponsors might include:,
17、5. Students will need to be organized to sell refreshments and help set up for events.,A Springtime Event,the springtime. Mr. Teller would like to teach us more about robots. Instead of working on radio control robots, he would like to teach us how to program one. You could program it to do differen
18、t things such as go toward a light or go away from a light. We would program all this information onto a chip and place it in the robot. This would give us a chance to learn more about engineering, science, and technology.,Our third goal includes Marc Teller, a supervisor for the Port Aransas BEST t
19、eam. He wants to extend Robotics into,Will Ragan “Remote-control enthusiast invited to share ideas Saturday”“PAHS robotics team assigned anti-nuclear meltdown project” Tessa McKeever - “PAHS Island Robotics team, community share time, ideas”.“Island Robotics Does BEST to Compete” - Will Ragan.,Islan
20、d Robotic Articles,Port Aransas South Jetty Articles,Other articles,May 17ths edition, “Robotics coming to PAHS” was written by Leah Martaindale. “Robotics Team explains BEST to Port Aransas” published on March 29, 2001The Gunters Gazette published an article named “Gunters Robotics on the Road”. Th
21、is article was to announce their visit here at Port Aransas High School.,The splash,The Splash, Port Aransass High Schools newspaper, proudly displayed an article about our new program. “Construction stage begins on new robotics team” written by Will Ragan ran in Septembers edition and is as follows.,Thank You for visiting us! Island Robotics Port Aransas High School,
