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 We had a great turn out at our Annual Community Open House! Our family and friends, along with many special guests, including our principal Mr. Abraham and our superintendent Dr. Little, came out to support us. Our VEX team also made an appearance and demoed their robot. Each sub team had a table set up to tell about what they do on the team. We also demoed our robot, and showed the game animation. We had a great time and appreciate all the love and support from everyone who came!

Knowing that Cyber Blue is about more than just the robot, our Chairman’s team is hard at work on the 2014 essay. This is an awesome group of hardworking students and mentors!

 We are making great progress on our 2014 robot. We are continuously working together to revise and improve our design.

We’ve been busily working as week two of build season has begun. Prototyping has gone well and a full robot design is starting to come together. Progress is growing rapidly and excitement is following alongside!

Six weeks and counting! Build season kicked off this morning with the broadcast and reveal of the 2014 game. This year’s challenge is Aerial Assist. The main goal is to score a large ball into various goals with a focus on team work. We’ve started brainstorming and breaking down the game and we can’t wait to create a new robot!

On Saturday, We hosted a group of Girl Scouts in our lab for an afternoon of robotics and excitement! The girls had a blast working with team members to build a golfing robot using Lego Mindstorms pieces while getting experience in engineering at the same time. After the project the scouts stepped up and learned how to drive Omicron, our 2013 robot.

At the request of LEAD, a program residing at IUPUI, we demonstrated our 2013 robot to the participants for their camp. Ranging from 6^th to 9^th grade, the campers glowed at the sight of our robot, especially when at the controls. The rest of the camp was engaging, focusing on topics such as space and energy solutions. Overall, it was a great event and many thanks are offered to LEAD for inviting us to participate in the event.

Over Fall Break we competed in the CAGE Match. Our new members had a great time learning how FRC competitions work. We were ranked 3rd after the qualification matches, and continuing our recent partnership, we were picked by Team 868, The TechHOUNDS and rounded out our alliance with Team 2171, The RoboDogs. Our alliance worked together to become champions of the 2013 CAGE Match.

Last week at Purdue University, Cyber Blue went to several different classes teaching so many great things! Some of our new team members went to the Rookie class and learned a lot of great things from Steve Florence! There were several classes, including Website Presence, Engineering the Future, The Rookie Experience, Inventor Basics, Introduction to Basic Robot Parts and many others! There were several teams there and we were happy to be one of them!

Last night our school board honored our mentor, Kevin Kelly for his 15 years as a volunteer on our team. We couldn’t run without his wonderful support and guidance. Thank you Kevin!