Members of Tiger Robotics will be making a field trip this Friday morning, February 24th, to visit Tokyo Electron in Austin. Tokyo Electron manufactures machines used in the fabrication of semiconductors so lots of cool robots should be available!

(Posted on behalf of Norah Martin, chair of our Booster Club planning committee)

As you probably know, there has been great interest in forming a parent booster club to jointly support the DSMS and DSHS robotics clubs! The purpose of the booster club is to support our children and staff sponsors through community outreach, volunteer and team support at events, and fundraising.

DSISD guidelines indicate that prospective parent booster club applicants receive Federal 501(c)(3) designation prior to consideration. The fee to apply for the 501(c)(3) is $400.00.

Parent donations are requested to fund this fee. Your seed donation will fund an important endeavor for our kids and for district children years to come.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Best regards,

Norah Martin
Parent of Willy, DSMSTigerRobotics team member

If you would like to make a donation, please use the contact form and we will get back to you with details of where to send checks. Thanks!

Tiger Robotics will be visiting Dripping Springs Library to show off the BEST and FLL robots along with various other machines the members have been building. This event will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, January 28th from 1pm until 4pm. Come along and see what the team has been up to! There are rumors that pizza will also be available afterwards.

There will be a meeting to discuss the possibility of forming a Robotics Booster Club at DSMS at 4:30pm on Thursday, January 19th. If you have an interest in helping with fundraising for the club, please consider coming along and joining in the discussion.

My photos from the recent BEST Robotics Competition Texas/New Mexico regional are now online. You can find the full set here or, if you are interested mainly in pictures of the Dripping Springs Middle School team, you can find these images here.

Hopefully this video will give you a quick idea of what went on at the BEST Texas/New Mexico regional last week. The emphasis is on the “quick”, as you will see

The Tiger Robotics BEST team is just back from a weekend at the Texas/New Mexico Regional competition held at the Garland ISD Special Events Center near Dallas. We all had a great time and learned a lot from seeing the other teams and robots that were taking part. There were 56 teams from two states gathered for competition. Despite mechanical problems with the robot arm which meant that we only scored about half as many points as expected, we placed 43rd in Head-to-Head and 28th Overall for the BEST Award.