[srawn] SR(A)WN 2017 -- 02

[Andrew Barrett-Sprot]

SR(A)WN 2017 — 2

This is the second issue of the 2017 Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter, a (roughly) fortnightly newsletter which summarises the goings‐on across Student Robotics. Emboldened items are ones which we believe could do with extra hands. An absence of emboldening does not necessarily mean that everything is done.

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Headlines

• In Southampton, we helped run an outreach event titled "Routes into STEM" which gave us a good opportunity to promote Student Robotics. The event was for Year 10 students and we ran a small competition involving line following robots.
• The Southampton branch has moved from an exclusive facebook chat to a Slack server which is more accessible for everyone.
• Game ideas for 2016 are now being discussed. Volunteers are invited to join the discussion on the srobo-game mailing list.
• Preparation has begun for Smallpeice 2016. Smallpeice is a five-day summer school which some volunteers run in conjunction with the University of Southampton and the Smallpeice Trust. If you want to get involved (you don't need to be from Southampton), check out thesummer school mailing list.

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Thanks to everyone who helped put this issue together. If you would like, you can also read the previous issue.