East Hawaii HomeBots
Mahalo
Mahalo to everyone who helped make our team a success. We were delighted to
receive various certificates and a trophy at the tournament, and to receive
official recognition of our performance from U.S. Congressman Neil Abercrombie.
Since then, we have performed well at the AstroDay BotBall match at Prince
Kuhio Plaza, where we scored higher than any team at the regional competition
had scored, we were leading every team by over a three-to-one margin going
into the final playoffs, where our robot didn't even turn on in the last
round. Remember to secure everything well, including the starting light
sensor!
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Dr. Tim Jahuaus allowed us to use his computer at the tournament.
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Leland and Rosa Louie provided an additional laptop computer in case Dr. Tim's would fail.
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Brittni submitted the original design for the team T-Shirt.
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LeAnn Paiva and Donna Miller set up temporary bank accounts and helped with logistics.
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LeAnn Paiva applied for the Healing Our Island Community Fund grant.
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T-Shirts were provided by The Hawaiian Force at cost of materials.
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KIPR provided replacement loaner HandiBoard when it failed.
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Allan Honey at W.M. Keck Observatory provided all of the following:
- Training Sessions
- Expertise in troubleshooting and time w/o charge
- Replacement of TTL Discrete Logic IC chips free of charge (unavailable anywhere else on the island)
- Use of high-tech equipment for removing solder from components on the board
- His lab technician's help in removing ICs
- Use of critical parts from a HandiBoard from H.P.A. over the weekend until KIPR sent a loaner.
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Hawaii Preparatory Academy sacrificed the use of their spare HandiBoard while we used them while waiting for our loaner from KIPR.
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Hualalai Academy loaned two universal joints when ours broke the day before our team went to Honolulu.
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Wiakea Intermediate School loaned us a universal joint hours before the courier arrived with the other two from Kona.
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All families contributed food at meetings.
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And of course the students provided their time and effort and sleepless nights to build and program and document the robots and the effort, and their parents for providing transportation, support, food, encouragement, and orderliness etc.
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Sam Kimura's family had the initiatiave to inform us of the tournament and provide us with the necessary information to participate.
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Special thanks to Art Kimura and the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium for bringing this event to Hawaii,
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and thanks to Paul Fetherland and the Hawaiian Electric Company for contributing their expertise and facilities for orientation training.
