Christian Liberty Academy 2008 Botball Team
News
2007 Fund Raising News
Thanks to Hawaii Community Foundation!
Hawaii Community Foundation has pleged two thousand dollars to CLA to ensure the team can fly to the Regional and National competitions! Special thanks to the donor, and to Julie Tulang for making it happen, and everybody at Hawaii Community Foundation!
Progress
Our fundraising progress meter to da max!
2007 Reaching Out
Cool Community Involvement
2007 Sharing News about Botball in Hawaii
Read
Art Kimura's message
about
the
teacher workshop,
the
regional competition,
and the
National Conference on Educational Robotics.
Participation throughout Hilo
In December, our team manned a robotics exhibit at RoboFest Hawaii, displaying the robotic structural parts that we use for Botball though still in the basics. Then in April we once again manned a station with Astroday 2K7, and on a minor note we have been helping the Waiakea Intermediate Team in their Botball and Beyond Botball building and programming.
Help for Other Teams
The PVC parts list is now available. We have a few spare parts in case another team needs them.
1" PVC Connectors: 4 extra 90 degree, and 1 extra T. Please contact our mentor Mr. Shaneyfelt at 974-7332 if your team needs any of these spare parts.
More News & Information
Botball Workshop
In this Febuary, three of our members went to the workshop conference in Oahu and learned the Game and the new parts.
Botball Regional Tournament
This April we worked and had worked and finally made it to Oahu for the regional tournament with one new member with us. Sadly we were not victorious in all of our matches, but we were champions in the Alliance Matches paired together with Kapa`a Middle School also helping them in the programming and building area.
Meetings
We will be meeting Fridays after school in room CH-11A at UH Hilo.
The lab is open at 3:15. We generally meet around 3:30 for about two hours. Stay as late as you like.
Parking in lot 5 is free non-class days and after 4pm daily. Before 4pm park on Lanikaula street.
Special thanks to UH Hilo Computer Science department for making their facility
available for BotBall teams to meet in Hilo.
Hawaii BotBall 2007 Teams
The map below shows where this year's Botball teams are located. Team numbers on the map link their public web pages. try
39,
41,
42,
94, and of course our own
91.
Mahalo!
Special thanks to:
- Julie Tulang, the Hawaii Community Foundation, and their donor for the two thousand dollar donation covering all remaining expenses including travel!
- Central Supply for donating all the practice arena pipe parts that we needed!
- Home Depot for their 25 dollar donation
- Barbara Takase for one of the largest donations given!
- Cafe 100 for their donation
- Jean Takase for her donation
- Happy Valley Seafood Resturaut for a donation
- Mr. Jim Tang and New Star Restaurant for donating all-you-can-eat buffet lunch tickets
- Masayuki and Fumiko Kai for our first cash donation
- Safeway for donating a gift certificate
- Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc. for their grant to Big Island teams like ours
- NASA for their automatic grant to assist US teams like ours
- University of Hawaii at Hilo for use of their facility and mentoring
- Kimura family for the use of their equipment for training and practice
- Institute for Astronomy
- Darryl Watanabe and Gary Fujihara for assistance using their desoldering station to repair the XBC
- Gary Fujihara for making it possible for us to participate in RoboFest Hawaii
- Dr. David Miller and KIPR for BotBall and Art Kimura for bringing it to Hawaii
Satellite Imagery from Hawaii Statewide Geographic Information Systems Program
Send Donations To: Christian Liberty Academy, 16675 Milo Street, Keaau, HI 96749 (memo: Robotics)
(808) 966-8866
CLA is a Section 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation recognized by the IRS