9/13 – Business Notes

Raw Notes from Business meeting 09/13:

  • Going into Imagine Innovation office on Tuesday to present about us for sponsorships
    • Invite other companies in the building, later on, no robot demonstration/slides that time
    • 4, start at 4:30, Tuesday
    • Sameer until 5, Lynn after
    • Isabelle, Bhargav, Amy, Ryan, coach, (Ali & Rahul) – makes 4 to 5 people
    • They do machine learning, AI
      • Expect smart questions

Money

  • Natural Instruments Opened – Ryan for programming help
    • LabView required for competition robot
    • Mentor that teaches Labview
    • Makes us unqualified for the NI grant
  • NASA Opened
    • NASA is mainly for second-year teams
    • Extremely difficult to get but we will still apply
    • Most detailed grants, all teams will be applying
  • Google Ad validation came in and Ali is applying
    • We qualify for this grant
    • May not get cash money
  • PTC Grant for Autodesk & Solidworks

Returning Member signup form – Amy will send me link

    • Amy has updated
    • Both Email blast and meeting notes
  • Celito (check spelling)
    • Sponsor teams locally in Raleigh
    • Show interest in engineering
  • Solar Company Ivanova (check spelling)
    • Local company:
    • Bhargav in touch with people that added his dad’s solar panels
    • Race Car thing is solar power so contact companies because of that
  • FOllow up on the RC with Mr. B – Ali
  • United Therapeutics grant needs follow up with FIRST
    • Davis Drive (2 Seasons)
    • CA (continue contacting)
  • Task list sent to Bhargav – need to respond and go over tasks
  • Angy awards from build space, t-shirts,
  • Alumni, what colleges attend and scholarships
    • Jason, Alabama full ride
    • Oswin NCSU 2k
  • Nationwide scholarship provider (?) Facts
  • Cash box for at least thirty dollars
  • COllect dues, mr.L tomorrow night
  • Getting paperwork done during the meeting – 3 hours necessary?
  • Write down agenda for meeting – Sameer in charge
  • Bhargav making sure that the projector room is open and ready
  • Slides and questions last year
  • Go over parent meeting powerpoint
    • Practice meeting
  • Time commitment