From: Derek Wu [mailto:spiky1991@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:02 PM
To: McLeod, Mark
Subject: judge mini essays

Team History

Our rookie year was in the year of 2000 and since that year Festo has
sponsored us till today, providing us sources and engineers.
Throughout these 8 years we have been able to win 3 regional and 1
Chairman's award.

Team's FIRST impact

FIRST has had a great impact to numerous members on our team. FIRST has
taught many members of the team to learn how to perform numerous task
and tools throughout the years and most importantly how to cooperate
with others. 

Team Strength

The main strength of our team is the cooperation that members have with
the advisors and engineers. Throughout the season there is a special
bond that is formed that allows the team to act as a whole to be able to
create ideas together that would soon become a part of our robot.

Robot and Game Strategy

This year our main strategy is to score a large amount of points during
autonomous. Our robot would be able to pick, place, and shoot the ball
throughout the matches allowing us to be able to score points in
numerous ways. 

Funding Sources

Since our rookie year Festo has been a major sponsor of our team and
Fonar has also has been a major sponsor for us, providing material that
we need.

Team Goals

Our main goal throughout the competition is to help others to make their
robot work. We will allow other teams to use our shop and also provide
"workshops" for other teams such as a programming and electrical
workshop.

Community Description

The Hauppauge community isn't too large, which allows many members of
the community to interact with each other. Hauppauge is a cheerful that
has many events that happen throughout the year that would allows us to
promote our club and the word of FIRST.

Most Significant Challenge Overcome

The most significant challenge that our team has to overcome is usually
the weight issue. We generally weigh our robot every once in a while to
get an idea how much weight we will have to play with. But even though
with us trying to conserve weight we are usually near the weight limit
forcing us to take weight of somewhere. 

Most Competitive for Which Awards

We would like to win a regional once again but more importantly we would
love if we would be able to win the Chairman's Award once again. The
chairman award will allow us to be one of the

Public awareness

Throughout the year we will frequently go to events to have the public
aware of our club and FIRST. We will go to homecoming, safe Halloween,
and we do a presentation during the Middle School Science fair promoting
students of the middle school to join Robotics when they get to high
school.