001All right, school board, we are live. We are streaming to YouTube. Phone lines are open. Go for it. >> Thank you very much, Matt. Welcome. Uh, can I have a motion to call the meeting to order? >> Make a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Hey, please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. >> All right. So you see a lot of famous people I watched on YouTube. So and I see a nice robot. So I'm going to turn it over to Sarah so you can introduce everybody. >> Sure. >> Yep. and I will quickly turn it over
002to them. So, as you know, we participated in the first robotics competition and we have the Bonic Bots and the bot um here uh with Mr. Rininger and Mr. Gregory and our students to tell you all about that experience. So, I will turn it over to them. Thanks. Hi everybody. I'm so All right. Um, so this is my partner in crime, uh, Ray Mc Gregory, and I'm Urban Ryan. I'm teaching computer science here, so this is my 10th year. Um, but this is the first year we've done this year. And, uh, like to introduce the the team that hasn't gone on vacation or isn't on a stage, but uh, but they are definitely some of our most dedicated students. Um, and this is our first robotics team and that's not a typo. First stands for
003uh for inspiration, recognition of science and technology. Uh, so that's it's actually an acronym which I got to be honest, I didn't know when I initially signed up for this, but it definitely tracks as we go into it further. I'm given the the challenge to try to explain a game that has a really thick manual and all kinds of little technical things. Um, but before I do that, let's quickly just say in the the competition that we participated in, the Long Island Regional Competition, which is a really demanding one, we actually ranked 15th. We we told the star the week before that we were uh further down in the rankings, but because we uh won an award and there was a um rookie, they don't expect you to do well your first year um boost
004for it, we actually got ranked 15th out of the 48 schools that are there. So, we did really really well with um that and better than most everybody expected. Uh and to the game, uh there's all these different things we could do, but basically there are these yellow balls and then there's a hub, which you can see over there. And the goal is get as many of those into the hub as possible. That's the simplest way to surround the ground. Um there's all kinds of other game elements, climbing elements, and elements where you have to go under or over and around and that. But when it all gets down to it, there's 400 balls there and the goal is to get the ball into the into the spot. Uh they're going our wonderful students are
005going to explain all that in a moment. Um and Okay, good. Great. >> Hello, my name is Juan Torres and I am a senior. I was I am the president of the awards club and I was also the captain of the um FRC team 11:30. Um yeah, so I am the basically one of the main builders for our robot. What does that mean? As that I was in charge of basically designing, building, so putting everything together and then wiring everything up to make sure it all works. Um so the whole process really starts in January, which is when the first organization releases the entire building to the public world. Um, from there they also release a kitbot which is like a starting bot for teams to start off and build off of to improve upon
006and and then compete on. We started with that kit bot as well. We built that in like our first two weeks of of the competition starting seeing how it all worked, how it all um, you know worked with the the drive, with the shooting, with the intaking and all that. Um, one of the biggest differences we saw from the tank drive, which is what the kit has and what we ended up going with, which is a swerve drive, is that the tank drive just goes either forward or back or turning, but it can't go both at the same same time. The swerve drive can do both at the same time. So, that's why we went with that. Um, the other mechanisms that are on the robot, which are which we made on our own are
007the shooting and intaking. For our intaking, we had this um mechanism which drops down and actually intakes the fuel off the ground as we're moving and moving it to the canals. Um our our shooting mechanism which uh Wilmer here will demonstrate when he when he's ready um is uh with one big wheel here which is uh motorized by by one motor one motor here to shoot them all out in one flow. Um after that the other component is electrical. Um I had some help with that with from Mr. Ringer here. Um we were the ones in charge of making sure everything was uh you know with encoders with wiring everything was was correct and and in order. Um one challenge from that was also with the kit. One of the wheels was wired incorrectly making
008it drive um not you know always in the same manner we were expecting it to. Um that's definitely one of the most important things where since we had limited resources um since we had limited resources >> one of those wiring up means >> I'll give her a second. Yeah. So, continuing with the wiring, one of these, since we had very limited resources, if we had to mess something up, it can mean a at least $400 to $1,000 almost a repair, having to buy new things to be able to replace what we messed up. Um, so that was one of the big main challenges and community procedure everything was working fine before we actually ran it with electricity. Um, another component was vision, which is with this camera here, which is a limelight camera. That was
009again for vision and aligning um to the hub which if wants to demonstrate that now >> I I will go further into this but with this button here it perfectly targets at the hub so that we don't have to >> yeah what that does is you can hear was align the robot on its own based on the vision it gets of the from the from the camera so that we don't have to manually move it are trying to get. Um, so those are the main things from building. Um, I think I will turn it over to Bloomer so we can continue with >> quick little demonstration of what he meant by this work drive. Any >> Oh yeah, if you want to wear your glasses, you probably should have, >> you know, gap >> just
010in case. safety first. >> Yeah, the swerve drives forward, back, and then in order to go a different direction, you have to turn. But in this case, this bot can move diagonally. So there's evening there's really not even a need to turn the bot. >> We'll give you all a chance to like grab it if you like. >> Okay. So hi, my name is Roman Verdugo. I'm also a senior and I was mainly in charge of the coding aspect of the robot. So for a very brief overview, this robot was coded within Java, a simple coding language. And going into one of our first and biggest endeavors within this coding aspect was turning back to this line as Juan mentioned before, this little black camera here. So, as I said, it's for vision, but the
011main thing it does is scan those QR code tag looking things. They're called April tags. And as long as the camera can see those April tags, the bot knows its exact position on the field, distance, all measured, and everything. And using that, we had to be able to code the robot's autonomous period. Pretty much, it's a set of commands that allows the robot to move completely on its own without our control from the controller. So the first thing we tried to get into was commandbased movements. And simply put, this is basically just giving the robot a set of instructions. Move back, move forward, shoot, all by itself. And we looked into Path Planner, one of the biggest programs used by the specially top teams, but we found some trouble within this. So we had to
012ended up pivoting to timebased commands. And so we gave the robot a set speed for a set time. And just using some basic uh physics, we could calculate how where the robot would end up being in place. And by doing this, we were able to score in the I'm not sure if Mr. Andrew mentioned the autonomous period, but at the beginning of the game, there was an initial 20 seconds where the robot moves freely. We put the controller down. It's purely how good is your code. So that was the entire timebased period and in the competition itself I was the driver and this autonomous period was probably the most nerve-wracking period of this whole time. It was not how good can you drive but how well did you actually code the bot and once this
013finally we saw it like come to fruition it was an exhilarating feeling for the entire coding team not just me and our whole build team. Everyone saw like the robot really come to life in this period and we definitely just want to thank you for giving us this opportunity and our were all the coders mainly learned from computer science day in computer science principles the AP classes computer science principles was my first like main introduction into coding. It gave me the absolute basics but really necessary coding for loops, if statements, objects. But then computer science A had me more specialized within Java which is the um as I said the language I was coding in. And without this class, I practically would have been going in completely blind. >> So you're a senior also? >>
014Yeah. >> And with uh different grade levels kids on the >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. We had a few uh 10th graders and juniors. Oh, okay. >> It was pretty tense up their freshman. Your freshman. >> No, there was freshman. >> We had one go to the event. A couple other were there during the season, but they weren't. >> Not Not to put you on the spot. >> No, no. There's definitely a contingent of kids that are ready to take their place in >> Can I ask you one question from our standpoint? Go ahead. >> What are you missing? Like, what do you need? >> What would make it better? >> I know. I know. I'm sure I'm sure Mrs. remember year one of >> exactly. I see Mrs. Smith smiling. I'm sure she's got a
015list, but um you know from your guys perspective, you're the ones that are doing it. You're the ones that experience the whole thing. What could we do to make it better? >> I would say um getting the word out that we're doing this competition. I mean, we've there was one time where we drove the robot around. I mean, everyone that we showed it to was impressed, but nobody knew it was really happening, >> right? >> Not many people knew about it. I mean, I'm I'm sure there's plenty of other people who enjoy the STEM coding, things like that, but not a lot of them knew unless they were like in our friend circle that we told them about, >> right? >> Not many people in the school like kids knowing. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Interesting.
016I think uh you know much like a couple other projects that we've done last couple years with the world food prize it was similar to this uh you know it was started as an idea and the leaders you know in this case in those urban and in in Trevor you know kind of did a lot of you know community support for this >> to get it off the ground uh I think I think I'm correct in saying this last year they partnered with Sag Harbor team and in kind of case inclusion that they do have the volume here so right It kind of you know blended the community effort to share the efforts with people and you know groups were able to support some of the efforts >> and now you know we've been able
017to look at not only this first experience that was pretty successful to say the least but also you know really if you incorporate this into our next level of of budgeting and the like um and I think and I might be speaking wrong here that they didn't beat the machine up so brutally so they actually have like a like a you know exemplar for next year the teams if I'm correct they leave the competition it's not like that old you Discovery Channel show where they had the sauce on their back and I thought this is what it was like. They actually brought this home to actually practice with you know because they do get only their assignments in January. So now they have the fall to kind of play with last year's assignment and reverse
018engineer it. So I think they're pointing in a very nice direction. >> There's an invitational in at Beth Page for the same game that that they invited us to to uh help like the upcoming group. as long as you don't destroy the machine. >> Well, you know, there was an awful lot of, you know, there are pits that are all around the the in the event space. And we spent we hardly left the pits, right? We were always like trying to fix something after every round. It was assessing, oh shoot, this is all out of line or this is broken or we started redesigning something like at the last moment in one of the cases there. It was really >> And I guess you'll build >> excited. >> I guess after you go, you'll build
019off last year's model anyway. some things maybe you'll take away from it. >> One of the best things about it is having already done the swerve drive, which a lot of teams were like, "Wow, you're a you're a rookie team with a swerve drive." And >> last year's game was so specific and you couldn't compete if you didn't have a swerve drive. This year they kind of changed the game so that they made it more easy for for you make it more open, right? But I anticipate there being it's swinging back the other way. And you need that accuracy of this work. Having that and having two bots to have one team prototyping and one team working on the code on the other one and be able to go back and forth. That's that's often
020where our bottleneck was. Like they wanted to test code, they just rewrote. We just disconnected half of them, >> right? and the build team and the coding, you know, they kind of need a second one to run it, which a lot of teams have a whole second build, right? They often do more than one season or not one season, but more than one event. >> Okay. >> And that's that that helps you a lot too. >> Sure. You get >> Thank you. >> And you felt like you had all the coding experience you needed at school and all the building of it. You had everything here you needed. Absolutely. >> Thank you. Hi, my name is Lauren Rosario. I am the vice president of the robots club and I'm the student coach of the F
021FRC team. Um, a big part of my job being student coach while we were at the competition was I mean talking with the judges as you can see there were those guys in blue. Um, that helped us get the awards. they interview at the PE or they bring you to a separate interview station and I dealt with a lot of the socializing and the outreach. Um I helped a lot of new students um get familiar with this whole um competition. I gave tours to new students who were lost. Um I helped kids like figure out scouting which is something that we do that everyone does. They go to each pit um and they speak with the teams, ask them questions about their robots, their teams um what they've done during the whole build season um
022just to get a bit better feel of how they are in the competition, how they could play um preparing us for alliances and furthering like our knowledge complex all the other matches. Um and then uh I also did a lot of strategizing. So, I would have to go with a lot of um I'd go with the captain and our driver and we would all go to different teams and we'd um figure out how we were going to play the next matches and so that was a big part of like the socializing aspect. Um, and so I really got into robotics because if I took robotics freshman year as a class and I mean uh it gave me like a lot of knowledge and intel on how I could go into this and also being vice
023president and student coach as a girl is a little rare in FRC. Um, it's very empowering and it's really nice to help our team bring more girls up because we had very little girls. >> But, um, I think in the for next few years, there's going to be a lot more considering that we're able to put ourselves out there and like that's what I'm all about like that community outreach, making sure everyone knows what they're doing. >> So, credit to you. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Definitely. Um, but I just that's pretty much my spiel. I just want to say thank you. >> Thank you so much for letting us do all of this. >> Um, I mean really >> you helped us with our funding and everything and gave us all the opportunities and
024materials we need to bring this whole thing to life. >> So, thank you. Great job. >> Great job. Yeah, they they uh get I was really blown away and uh by by the level of of professional like work they did associated with this and uh as it goes for coding I did none of the coding like the coding is all that so they really figured things out. They had a couple questions I'd redirect them and they would go at it. So, um, that was a huge deal. They in in the pits and going out there and coaching. It was all student coaching. You know, Mr. Greger and I sat back at that point and just let them own it and yeah, I think they did a really great job in it. Um, and um, you
025know, we're really super excited. We'll show you a couple more little shots here with it as we do, but we want to thank you, Kanas Club did a really nice uh, donation for us. um as well as SCOPE, East Hampton Education Foundation, Shark, the Broy, East Hampton teachers association, the Alliance Club, and of course you guys um you know, Tim Sprum often really helped step out there when we were kind of hit short on the time. Uh so we really want to thank all of them. And then there's also a great um we we got the rookie allstar award which we were pretty excited about. Um, and with that, uh, we want to, um, this is the only picture of all of us there at the event. We're all over the place. We all kind
026of in the pit photo. Um, >> is it video of it like with the pit and stuff on you said on YouTube you had stuff >> there? Well, all of the events are actually streamed. Um, so there there's a media release kids have to do. So, uh, at one of our events, all of a sudden, everybody was texting us saying, "Oh my gosh, we have an on in our classroom. People got really nervous on >> nothing got done. Nothing got done that night. >> Probably our worst matches. We're all watching. >> It was a Friday and we he was in his thing. >> It was really special and next year we will definitely I I think we will have a bot there for March Madness to show it off. Hype it there and then hype
027it uh and have folks watch on that Friday when when we do the next event for it. Um, so this is all the crew that actually was there for that. And then there slide. >> Okay. Well, there's that other slide, but the award we want to actually put in the Rich Wilson case that's there. Know he was a big proponent of STEM. He also had started the the first robotics club in S Harbor 30 years ago and they're still going. Uh, and I think he would be excited to, you know, see the team here and we'll add that case for it. Absolutely. But that's our that's our spiel. Would you like to >> would you like to quickly >> a shot? I'm sorry. You want to add? >> I mean, other than like we both
028I feel like work with other teams. We both worked at Sag Harbor. So, it just felt really special to finally have a team here to work with our students on the building and really felt like I feel like it was our team which was which was nice. You know, it was great I would say like to have the opportunity to work with Sack Harbor over the years. Like I was there 10 years ago, you were there last year and then that was kind of like the springboard for us to bring it here. It's just great to be able to bring it in in the in the school and get more students here involved in it. So, And I'll just say too, last time I was up here, I was asking for a laser cutter and
029thank you again for that because we we use that a lot this put on a robot. >> That's different. The next competition would be a little maybe disqualify. >> Laser stuff we need to know. That's what I was asking about because you know, you know, listen. >> Well, we should have taken shown you pictures of the other pits cuz Thursday morning showing up and seeing what the other teams had like >> Yeah. >> giant trailers with their names painted on it and like it was like Formula 1 teams like somebody for $50,000. >> What are we doing here? >> If someone else wants to sponsor, you have sponsors. Where do they go? that we can maybe LTB will get it out there and somebody might watch it. You know, >> there's a website and uh
030it's bots.bot.io and we'll uh we'll make it okay more present on on you know people that are watching maybe some Instagram feelings in the competition. >> Yeah. Maybe one thing we use is if you've been to my room since January, you've seen my room gets reset every couple hours to like accommodate this. And all the lights in my room, which are like this, are up to the ceiling now for some obvious reason. So, >> yeah, go for it. Let's >> go. the break. deploy and then you have to make a map figure out. So having like an exemplar like this >> online thing was very cool. >> Very cool. The moving around you expected like laser dropping things. >> That's really cool guys. >> Yeah, that was slow. That's so when it happens and there's
031three teams, you know, versus three teams, it's mayhem of beiness and the shooting. Some teams can average >> over 200 300 balls like in a in a two three minute period and it's a huge volume of >> beautiful but there are lots. If you have any more questions, feel free to reach out and ask us. And um and thank you very much for all your >> You guys don't have to stay. >> The robot has to stay, but >> we had to take it apart to get it. >> Did you really? I cut it already. This is one of those scenes that it's very common. Have a good night. >> Yeah. If anybody wants to go certainly. >> Hi, good evening everyone. >> I wanted to take a quick minute to congratulate our fourth and
032fifth grade musical participants. Um, >> unbelievable. Unbelievable. It was great. >> The show was tremendous. the amount of time and effort uh put in by the students, of course, thanking the families for getting them to all of the rehearsals, and then specifically Mike McGee directing, Kevin Quinn is the assistant director, Shannon Triss, who did the lighting, uh and Don Diamond who did, um the stage, um and Erin Miner, who we brought on, she was new working with us as the musical, as the vocal director, excuse me, and she did a terrific job as well. It was just fantastic and a wonderful event to bring with the community together. Um and then I also wanted to share a unique opportunity that was brought to us um for our first graders where we've chosen to to bring
033it to our first graders to have exposure to American Sign Language. So um I believe it was at the last board meeting that was approved to bring on Professor Fran Holtzman to do a six week series in sign language. Um, and in I want to thank Julie Vistrian for bringing us Professor Holtzman because we did a little Jul did the research in finding a professor in ASL. Um, and we talked about what grade levels we wanted to bring this experience to. So, she's going to do six weeks with our um, first graders. Laura Rosner, who's the lead teacher for first grade, and I had the opportunity to meet with Professor Folzmann this week. And I'm really excited about them learning, you know, their alphabet, the basics, the pledge of allegiance, and then having a group
034of students who have that knowledge to always have someone be able to sign, you know, for us and doing the pledge at all of our events. So, um, it's it's we're really excited and thank you, Julie, for hooking us up with Professor Alman. It makes sense. It sounds great. >> Thank you. Uh last thing, uh Kathy's not here, but Kathy wanted to say middle school sports went off and without a hitch and looking forward to coming back when the uh weather's >> That's for sure. Spring sports outside. >> That it public comment. Does anybody have a public comment? Matt, do you have anybody on the line for public comment? Let's uh let's do a double check of the lines. Stand by. One second. >> And this is Matt Chapman calling in from LTV. Everything sounds
035great. >> And you have zero callers. Thank you. >> Thank you, Matt. All right. Uh so public comments and now we're on consent agenda. Can I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? >> Motion. >> Second. All in favor? >> Any opposed? And then we are down to superend superintendent report and recommendation. Uh messed this up. So let's see. >> 701. >> Yeah. >> So it is recommended the board accept with gratitude a donation for the 202526 school year. Can I have a motion? >> Make a motion. I'll second. >> Second. >> Uh thank you very much for a very generous donation. Uh, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Uh, sorry, I'm a little off today with this little thing. I don't know why I can never get this right. >> Just
036use my >> Yeah, I might do that. Know why it's it's not separating. >> Here we go. I think I think I got it. >> Yeah. recommended the board approve the following contract agreements the 2020 uh 2627 school year for summer 2026. I have a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. Any discussion? >> Excellent. More opportunities for our kids. Tim from did a great job bringing this in. It's going to be really good supports what we just saw. Okay. >> National. >> Okay. >> All in favor? >> Any opposed? and recommend the board approve the following uh consult agreements for the 202526 school year. I have a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> It's just another IMA with Shelter Island. >> So, uh again, something to benefit
037both of the districts. We're doing maintenance work over there now for them. >> Great. >> All in favor? >> Any oppose? >> All right. All business don't have anything. >> Yeah. Just a reminder, school budget vote and election day, Tuesday, May 19th, 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the East Hampton Library. >> Okay. Then nothing on new business, right? I can't I can't get mine to do. >> Sorry. Public comments. Well, I'll try one more time, but I don't think it's 30 seconds is going to change a whole lot. Uh we'll move on for the public comment unless Matt you have something, which I'm assuming you don't. >> You have zero calls on the line. Thank you. >> Terrific. Um, board committee meetings. We have for April 14th, we've got audit and uh, facilities. And
038it's a pretty busy month, April and May. We're starting to wrap up the school year. They're all listed online. If anybody wants to come, they're open to the public. Uh, you're welcome. And then, uh, let's see. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Make a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? No.