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15 - January - 1997

President Kevin Fahl had several announcements:

• The new March Contest Rules, reproduced at the end of this column, covering the Artist (robot art) & Survival (robot feeding) events
• ROBOTICS DIGEST publisher Bill Gates has published a premier December ’96 issue. The magazine will appear quarterly and may be contacted at:

Kevin passed out several items including:

• A BS2 Data Collection Board kit costing around $79 for the kit & docs, another $45 for memory & another $49 for a BS2 IC

• ROBOT BUILDER, the Newsletter of the Robotics Society off Southern California (RSSC), their address being:

Included in the newsletter was contact information for a robotics organization called FIRST, which runs a web site at www.usfirst.org. A description of the organization follows, taken from the web site:

"FIRST is an acronym which stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology".

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to generate an interest in science and engineering among today's youth. Currently, our primary means of accomplishing this goal is through our annual robot competitions, which began in 1992. We are also in the process of opening a science center in downtown Manchester, NH."

• HALTED SPECIALITIES CATALOG (HSC), an Electronics Supplies Catalog. HSC may be reached at 1 800 4 HALTED and runs a web site at www.halted.com

Treasurer Robert McAdams passed around several items including:

• A Supercircuits Catalog offering a complete selection to micro video equipment. Supercircuits may be reached at 1 800 335 9777 & has a web site at www.supercircuits.com

• Several copies of Hewlett-Packard Journal, an internal HP magazine. An on-line version of the magazine is also available at web site www.hp.com/hpj/journal.html

March Contest Rules

Artist:

Survival: