December 11, 2014
In this Issue:
Sponsor Alert! Team shirt logo deadline Dec. 18
Save the Date: See the 2015 kickoff live Jan. 3
Robots invade our state Capitol!

by Aila Ikuse
Running a team like Spartonics 4915 with over 50 students and 12 mentors, especially one that has grown so rapidly, requires a lot of community support. If you know of a local business that you believe should sponsor Spartronics 4915, or if your business would like to become a sponsor - let us know right away!

The deadline for company logos to be on our new Team Shirt is Thursday, December 18th. We need to have your high resolution logo by the same date in order to have it on our new shirts. Interested in sponsoring? Great! Check out this year's Sponsor Levels and Benefits... (read more)

by Aila Ikuse

Save the date! January 3rd is the date that Spartronics 4915 and FIRST robotics teams around the world will find out what the FIRST Robotics game is this year.

We will attend the kickoff at Mountlake Terrace High School, catching a very early morning ferry. After the game is announced we will pick up our Kit of Parts (KOP) -- which contains the main components of our robot -- and return to Bainbridge High where we will get immediately to work that afternoon and the next day. The Kickoff will be streamed live, and you can see where ... (read more)

by Aila Ikuse

Spartronics 4915 was fortunate enough to be invited to the Capitol building in Olympia to talk to our legislators about FIRST. We got to spend time with Erin McCallum, President of WA FIRST Robotics, and she did an amazing job pulling this event together. We also met Kevin Ross, the founder of WA FIRST. Without Kevin, none of us would be here now. While in Olympia we met with Rep. Drew Hansen, who was... (read more)