Chemeketa Robotics, Radio and Rockets Club

Club activity at the Halloween Club Fair at Chemeketa today.

Our new members to the R3 club! Radio group members!

On January 13th, 2024 the Chemeketa Robotics Team will be hosting a VEX Robotics University Tournament (VEXU), The Stormy VEX Tournament. We are in need of volunteers. From day of event volunteers to Head Judge, Head Referee, Emcee, and others - we need help to pull off the first real VEXU tournament for the State of Oregon. In the past we have ran the State VEX Tournament for high schools, but since 2020, we have not had a tournament on campus and this will be a first. Oregon Tech, OSU, and other teams from around will be in attendance.

Please email Chuck Sekafetz - [email protected] for more information
or sign up directly at:

The Stormy VEX Tournament - volunteer sign up Thank you for your willingness to help at the VEXU tournament this January.

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Quadrupeds Are Learning to Dribble, Catch, and Balance Upcoming ICRA papers show off a trio of talented quadrupeds

Meeting the third Tuesday evening of each month at Chemeketa Community College building 4 room 126

Come see us this weekend at the Salem Holiday Market at the Oregon State Fairgrounds

Put it in your calendar! March 13th and 14th, the VEX Robotics State Tournament! Held at Chemeketa Community College, 4000 lancaster Dr. NE Salem Oregon, building 7, the gym. Friday starts at 3 pm and continues until 9pm, then Saturday morning festivities begin at 9am with competitions until 3:00pm. A brief lunch period and tours of the electronics / robotics labs as well as the CTE building 20 will be occuring starting at 12:30 until 1:30.
Join us for some robot action. Three different brackets this year, so it will be quite interesting!

Look to these robots in use.

Cutting-edge robots pour beer and make sushi at trade show in Bangkok These cutting-edge robots show how they can make sushi, pour beers and even play chess. The artificial intelligence machines were being displayed at a manufacturing event yesterday (June 19) in Bangkok, Thailand. They included the Dual-Arm SCARA robot from Japanese firm Kawasaki showing off how it c...

This upcoming weekend, May 4-5, 2019, is the annual 7th Area QSO Party,
(7QP), one of the largest QSO parties in the US. The 7QP, along with the
Indiana QSO Party, the Delaware QSO Party, and the New England QSO Party
all occur on the same weekend, so there should be lots of activity on
the bands! They don't all have the same start or end times but there
will be activity from 1300Z on the 4th to 2359Z on the 5th. (And if you
use N1MM+ for logging, no matter where you are, you can run all four
parties at the same time in the same log).

The 7QP itself runs 1300 UTC Saturday to 0700 UTC Sunday (6 AM PDT to
midnight PDT). 7th call area stations work everyone, others work 7th
area stations only. Work stations once per band/mode. 7th area
mobiles (and those participating in other concurrent QSO parties or
contests) may be worked again as they enter new counties.

This event has something for everybody, and all modes (No FT8 though, as
the exchange is not supported). If you are a county hunter, there should
be a lot of rare counties on the air during the weekend. Dick Frey,
K4XU, will be roving as N7XU, activating some eleven rare counties in
Oregon. Other mobile stations should be on the air as well. If you are
an EmComm person with HF capability, get on to learn NVIS propagation
paths between your location and the rest of the 7th call district
locations.

Rules for the 7QP can be found here:
http://ws7n.net/7QP/new/Page.asp?content=rules

For a printable chart of 7th Area County abbreviations:
http://ws7n.net/7QP/new/7qp_abrv.pdf

7QP: 7QP Rules 7QP -- sponsored by CODXC, AOCC