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FLL Tournament//

Date: 12/11
Time 7-5
 At this event, we sold concessions all day. All of our team came and volunteered on the day of the competition as well as some of our alumni. We also recruited team 21874 DRSS Discovery to help us volunteer. It was a super fun day, there was lots to do. It was especially awesome because we had a team member emcee, and a different team member win the volunteer award. In addition, one of the teams that we have been mentoring competed at this competition, so we got to cheer them and all the other teams on.
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 Dragon Game//
Date: 8/26
Time: Indefinite 
 
We went to the military appreciation Dayton Dragon's game. We got to outreach for an hour before the game talking to families as they showed up on the plaza. This was also our first test of the Tribble Bot. Tribble Bot is our new outreach bot design. We wanted a bot that was more approachable, so Tribble bot is fluffy and wiggly. It is easier for people to approach, and they like to pet the bot and ask us more questions. This is especially useful with families with young children, since this type of robot is far more fun for them. 
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 HAMvention//
Date: May 19-21
Time: 40
The Air Show is an event that takes place once a year at the Dayton Airport. It allows for local businesses and non-profit organizations to come together and interact with their community. There was an estimated 85,000 people that came out to the Air Show over the weekend. We were the main team that organized and worked the FIRST  booth, but we had other FIRST teams out to help run things such as Quantum Leap(FTC), FE203(FTC), Innov8(FTC), Innovators(FTC), Lego Legion (FLL). We even invited an out of state team to come present with us. This has been our 6th time doing the Air Show and our 2nd organizing it, and we will be continuing to do so until further notice.   
 
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 Tech Fest//
Date: 23-24
Time: 35+ hours
This is the second year we have run Tech Fest Dayton. We saw roughly 2000 people over the course of the weekend. We especially like this event because it is a good mid-season event and we can invite other FIRST teams to do it with us. This event is also very family oriented, so we get to see a lot of children and get them excited about STEM and FIRST
 
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 Air Show//
Date: July 21-22
Time: 40 hours 
The Air Show is an event that takes place once a year at the Dayton Airport. It allows for local businesses and non-profit organizations to come together and interact with their community. There was an estimated 85,000 people that came out to the Air Show over the weekend. We were the main team that organized and worked the FIRST  booth, but we had other FIRST teams out to help run things such as Quantum Leap(FTC), FE203(FTC), Innov8(FTC), Innovators(FTC), Lego Legion (FLL). We even invited an out of state team to come present with us. This has been our 6th time doing the Air Show and our 2nd organizing it.
 
Laser Class
Laser Class //
Date: Ongoing
Time: Indefinite 
 This year, we went down to one of our sponsors, Rabbit Laser USA. We attended a class where we learned more about the laser cutter, such as how it works and how to maintain it. This was in preparation for our own laser class, which we will teach to the students at our school. The students will learn about different materials, safety, and uses of the laser cutter. They will then make their own keychain with the skills that they learn from this class. 
HAMvention //
Date: May 15 - 19, 2019
Time: 30+ hours
 
One of our teams largest outreach events is the Dayton HAMvention. This event was created for HAM radio enthusiasts across the globe. Our team annually attends this event. We talk about FIRST Robotics, demonstrated our robot, and explained opportunities for them. For the past two years, our team has held a forum to explain about the impact of robotics in the classroom. We were able to reach out to talk to numerous people that spanned across all seven continents. Over 30,000 people attended this event this year alone. One of our team members even worked as an intern for this event! Some of the other teams that joined us to help out at this event was the Powerstackers, Robot Legion, and Bionic Tigers are just a few of the teams that participated in this event with us.
Tornado Debris Cleanup //
Date: June 1, 2019
Time: 4 hours
 
On Memorial day, the Ohio area experienced a massive amount of tornado damage all across the area. Our team decided to go out and help in the cleanup of the damage. We worked with members of the Beavercreek community to move logs and other debris at two houses.
Club Fest //
Date: March 1st 2019- September 13th 2019
Time: 30+ hours
 
This event was created by our business team with the collaboration of the administration to hold at our school. The purpose of this event is to try and show the other students at the school all of the club opportunities available to them. This was held in our new Vectren lab for every grade and club that was allowed to attend. Our team had our own both set up among the many to get more students interested in joining our team next year.
Vectren Dayton Air Show //
Date: June 22th 2019
Time: 4 hours
 
The Dayton Airshow sponsored by Vectren, is an event that happens every year in Dayton, Ohio. Our team has participated in this event several times to talk about FIRST to the people attending. Our team worked with team #5029 Powerstackers and team #15250 in the morning session of this event. The total number of attendees for this event is around 40,000. Our team brought our robot for people to drive along with swag to handout for the guests at this event. We also had brought our Trackporter robot to drive around for others to see, which we had attached a FIRST flag to get others` attention. They even let us deploy our robot from a C-17.
PowerStackers Brianstorm //
Date: September 14th 2019
Time: 3.5 hours
 
The Powerstackers hold a brainstorming session each year after the reveal. It involves team-building exercises, food, quiz games on the new rules, and mocking up designs for a robot and code to be performed by a human “robot”. It helps to get teams thinking about the game, and allows them to collaborate and get new viewpoints and ideas from each other.
Dwayne Egbert Scrum Presentation //
Date: September 21st 2019
Time: 30 minutes
 
Dwayne Egbert is a professional who came in to teach us about an organizational method called the scrum method. It involves creating a backlog of all the tasks that need to be completed, putting the highest priority tasks into a to-do list, then splitting those up between the groups. We’ve since implemented the method, and it has greatly increased our productivity.
FIRST LEGO League Competition //
Date: November 22st - 23rd 2019
Time: 12 hours
 
Each year DRSS Enterprise hosts an FLL competition, this year at Be Hope Church. We had to set up the entire competition which consisted of setting up a lot of tables and chairs, as FLL playfield tables. The next day was the actual competition. Once the competition was over, we had to put everything away. And once that was done we went home!
Bluegrass Invitational Summary //
Date: June 15th 2019
Time: 7.5 hours
 
The 1st Annual Bluegrass Invitational Tournament was held by a Kentucky team named Lectric Legends in Lexington, Kentucky. Eight teams competed at this event. Our team used this scrimmage as a way for our other drive team to practice their skills and we tested our new scouting app. We were able to use this scrimmage as a time to determine how well our changes will work for next season, while getting to communicate with other teams. Overall, our team placed last the scrimmage.  
AFRL Presentation //
Date: April 29th 2019
Time: 2.5 hours
 
The AFRL hosted a presentation event for us to show off what we did with the grant money given to us. We had used the grant money last year to be able to start a rookie team along with other expenses. This year, we used it on our Track Porter robot to come up with new innovative solutions for a robot that size. I first solution was that our robot could be used for rescue and recovery missions. People walked around and asked Leah, Ethan B, Ethan S., and Antoine who were our representatives about our team along with our robots. Many other groups were presenting at the event.
Goodbye to Proto Build Bar//
Date: December 21st 2019
Time: 2 hours
 
Because one of our sponsors, Proto Build Bar, was going out of business, we took the time to visit them on their closing day. Proto Build Bar has been one of the sponsors that we have always loved to visit. We also have given out swag and helped them with soldering for little kids in previous years. At the sale, we were able to purchase one of their Arduino kits with our AFRL grant for a sensor lab. We also discussed the future of the building they used, and found that it would be occupied by one of their close business partners. As we said our goodbyes, one of the employees told us that working with our team had been one of the things their business was most proud of.  
Track Porter Robot //
Date: Ongoing
Time: Indefinite 
 

We were given a grant by Track Porter to make a robot they donated to us remote controllable. This was for the purpose of improving their own product, as the robot was designed for heavy work on farm, but their customers were complaining that the robot was hard to use with no remote control ability. We started by figuring out how the wires were connected. We spent a day testing connections and diagramming the wiring system. Then we brainstormed how we were going to control the robot and what safety precautions we were going to implement. We knew that safety needed to be our first priority, and we ended up with several extra precautions on top of the brakes that it came with. The first was a kill

switch mounted on the robot itself. We also had a component that would prevent any electrical signals from passing through it with a physical air-gap if it ever lost signal. Both of these came before anything connected to the motors in the wiring, making it impossible for them to be bypassed. The control system is an FTC motor hub hooked up to a pair of motor controllers, which convert the signals into a form that the 50-amp motor could use.   

Over the course of safely testing and wiring, we moved on to getting a program running for Track Porter. We began with the robot motor control kit that came with it. One of the problems that we encountered was that the motor controllers are very touchy, preventing fine control over the robot. This actually led to us damaging our field in one instance, breaking an aluminum bar. We then needed to create an equation that allowed our robot to work properly with the FTC parts. Using cubic equations allowed control that is more precise. Our team ended up being the first ones to get the robot to run remote controlled. Our next step, is attaching a camera to the robot. 

FIRST Tech Challenge Mentoring //
Date: Ongoing
Time: Indefinite
 
Throughout the season, we are constantly working towards better others and ourselves in FIRST Programs. We assist the junior varsity team at our school, Robot Legion 12653, by advising engineering or helping to engineer their competition robot by lending tool and materials. Another way we help is to provide programming guidance and with the judging presentation.
Flat Stanley Practice Visit //
Date: January 17th 2020
Time: 2 hours
 
Flat Stanley is a project created to help make writing easier for younger generations. Kids are supposed to mail out Flat Stanley and document all the places he had gone. One Flat Stanley visited a practice of ours. The origin for ours was from a middle school in Texas.
FLL State Competition Scrimmage //
Date: February 2nd 2020
Time: 5 hours
 
We were invited to a scrimmage at the FLL State Competition. At the scrimmage, we got a lot of experience driving with several other teams, and were able to make several tweaks to the programs. We also talked to a few FLL teams, showed them our robot, and let them drive our baby bot.
Interviews for Ball Aerospace and the News //
Date: February 6th-8th 2020
Time: Indefinite 
 
Our team along with other people in the FIRST organization participated in interviews to promote robotics and try to gain more mentors/sponsorships. The people who conducted these interviews were Ball Aerospace, WDTN, WKEF, and WRGT. The number of viewers for this event is innumerable.
Visiting Rabbit Laser //
Date: February 22nd 2020
Time: 4 hours 
 
We attended our annual visit to Rabbit Laser and Rabbit Robotics for a sponsor visit. After arriving, Rey, the owner, talked to us about the robots he has built for education. Then, he gave us a tour of the warehouse and told us how to use the new laser machine software. After some team building exercises, our sponsor gave us some laser material as we left.
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