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The Aragon Robotics Team is a student-based, student-built, and student-run robotics team centered at Aragon High School, 900 Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo, CA 94402. We usually meet every Mondays and Wednesdays after school until around 5:00pm.

"To create a world where science and technology are celebrated... where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes."
—Dean Kamen, Founder

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), established in 1989 by Dean Kamen, encourages the exploration of visions, the practice of gracious professionalism, and the establishment of lasting impacts.

It's hard to believe that three weeks have passed all ready.

The build team is sticking to the schedule they set earlier.

The media team, on the other hand, needs to speed up their work.

We are really excited for the 2008 FRC.

The build team is fast on their way to designing and building the robot. After long deliberations and careful planning, they have established a schedule for the rest of the build season. If everything goes as planned, then hopefully they'll find all the problem areas and allow the much needed time for our programmers to test out their code.

All the while, the media team is hard at work at designing and assembling buttons, shirts and various projects.

We went to the Cal Games last weekend. We barely finished our modifications, let alone tested all the various parts as one integral machine. The ramp broke the day before the competition, and it left us to rely solely on the manipulator.

And all was going well, until the chassis fell apart during the competition. The chassis subgroup worked nonstop trying to fix the robot. Much to our dismay at the end of the day, we were the last team to be able to choose our alliance partners; and we choose Gunn Robotics and Mills Robotics. Unfortunately, since we were the last team to choose, we were pitted against the first team to choose, who had two of the best robots in the competition.

Although we did not do as well as we had hoped at Cal Games, it served as a valuable lesson to this year's new members. We also seriously need a spirit lesson.

As a reminder, ART will be holding a team potluck dinner on Wednesday, Oct 3rd at around 6pm in room 222(?). All members, parents, sibilings, family members, mentors, sponsors are invited to come and get to know the Aragon Robotics Team and one another.

The media team has established the team's theme for next year, and is now working behind the scenes to produces all our publicity products for next year's challenge. Look for a short preview of this exciting new theme in our upcoming newsletter that will be out soon.

Ever since the Silicon Valley Regional last March, the build team has been feverishly planning modifications for the Cal Games this coming October, and today, the team decided on one final mockup and will begin working on this change.

Taking in all the challenges and problems we and other teams faced at the regional, we will hopefully improve our robot's performance at Cal Games.

A short description of this build challenge will be placed here shortly.

Today was the first meeting of the academic year, and we started to discuss our priorities this semester. But before we are able to do anything, we need every member to complete our safety course, which will be held tomorrow. Anyone who is not able to make it tomorrow must talk to Mr. Faustine immediately.

On an important note, our meeting dates have changed from Tuesdays and Wednesdays to Mondays and Wednesdays, at the same times. Please note this change on your schedules.

Ay, it's been a while since the new website structure construction, so... although not everything is up yet, we've decided to reveal the site anyways. Please bear with us for now while we add/update/correct its content.

Why did we change the website? We decided to establish a uniform, clean, and simple structure for the whole site. And because of this, it will be easier on our part of create different themes in the future that the user themselves will be able to select on their own.

There are many new features that have been added. Feel free to stumble around for now.