Newport Robotics Group has been around since 2001 but for the very first time, thanks to Foushee and Associates and Alliance Contract Flooring, Inc, we have enough (free) carpet to setup a full practice field at our high school.  Last year we moved into a new school building that had huge expanses of tile floor but with no carpet on which to practice.  We thank our school's janitors for their profound patience last year as we left black marks all over the commons from our mecanum wheels, but now we won't have to worry about leaving any marks at all.  And now for the story of how we got this carpet...

On Thursday, October 10th, we had our first team meeting.  The turnout was excellent at 30+ people, many of whom were new faces - which are always welcome - and it's looking like recruitment really came through this year.  We can all thank Frances Tung for that excellent work, making our amazing recruitment posters and dealing with short turn-around times.