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Inside this Issue:

Follow Us 1

New Trailer 2

Pre Season Experiences 3

Fermi Fest &

Fundraising

4

Team Building Activities 5

Our New Practice Field 6

Issue 1 of 6: Pre Season Edition

The Buzz

The Buzz

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This Issue of The Buzz goes out to

our longtime

mentor,

Ernie Scagni.

We miss you and

hope you feel better soon!

We need you here!

Follow Us!

Published by: Kristine and Kurtis

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Buz z R obo t i c s :

F IR ST T e am 175 Traveling in Style: Our new team trailer

Team Trailer

Buzz Robotics will be traveling in style

from now on! The team bought a trailer

and Sue Reis helped design the graphics

that were printed by Go Graphics in East

Longmeadow.

We’re looking forward to using this fully

equipped trailer this season to travel to

our district events and Championship

event!

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Buz z R obo t i c s :

F IR ST T e am 175 Pre Season Experiences

Isn’t As Easy As it Seems

By: Mia DiBattista—EFHS Sophomore

On one of our Wednesday pre-season meetings, we set up a mock practice

field in our cafeteria. It was a large, heavy carpet that spanned the length of the

floor. On the field, we drove last year’s robot and tested it for speed with different

weights. We did this to see how we could better this year’s robot. We marked the

carpet with tape to see where we should start and stop driving the robot at various

times. There were timers on each side of the field (three on each side) and we

took the average of all our times, to record. When Katrina drove the robot it swerved into me on one of

her last runs and it just goes to show that driving the robot isn’t as easy as it may seem! Despite the

incident, the mock practice field gave us a lot of useful information for the future.

Fundraising

By: Cara Lizotte —EFHS Freshman

Fundraising: On December 7th we went to Rentschler Field to fundraise money for the team, to pay for

travel costs. It was cold, but not raining and fun. New Lauren and I found bacon packages and sliced

ham. Bradley found a green canvas tent. I was kind of frozen by the end of it, but it was all worth it.

There was a lot of mud on the ground because it had rained the day before, but it was easier to pick up

the trash because not as many people went the game the day before.

Hard Work but Worth It

By: Jonathan Leduke—EFHS Freshman

In the course of preseason, we went to Rentschler Field for a fundraiser. We had to clean the parking lot. It was really messy; garbage was everywhere. It sounds worse than it really was. It was more fun than I thought it would be because we found a lot of weird stuff, like bacon, broken tents, egg shells, ham, lemons and other things. There were also garbage bags everywhere full of trash. The job was quick. We were allowed to bring a parent to help so we could get twice the amount money for our

individual accounts. The bad thing was that it was cold, but you forgot about the cold when you were working. Going to Rentschler Field was very hard work but worth it!

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F IR ST T e am 175 Pre Season: Fermi Fest & Fundraising

A Frigid Sunday Morning By: Eric Barnes—EFHS Junior

My first robotics fundraising experience occurred on a frigid Sunday morning. No one told me what to expect, but when I started to pick up the trash at the field it wasn’t so bad, until the wind picked up, resulting in trash blowing away and very cold fin-

gers. Overall, the whole experience was fun and I got to have a good time hardcore fundraising with

the team.

Fermi Fest 2014

In the fall, Buzz Robotics demonstrated the robot at Fermi Fest. Fermi students were really excited

by the robot, even our Vice Principal Mr. I was excited!

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F IR ST T e am 175 Pre Season Challenges: Building a tower

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F IR ST T e am 175 Pre Season : Building our Practice Field

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F IR ST T e am 175 Pre Season: Building our Practice Field

First offical day of pre season. Veteran students teaching the new comer about last years robot.

Buzz Practice Field at Stowe Elementary School

The Enfield Public School System has graciously allowed us to use the Stowe Elementary School to house a practice field. This is an amazing

addition to Buzz Robotics, it will give us a full field to practice on throughout the season. We will be able to train drivers, accurately test robot systems and autonomous modes. In addition, we will be able to host other teams in this space to practice with them! Special thanks to

Jason Arocouette of Flooring Installations for his help with the rug!