CCARC Oct club meeting

President Bob Curran, NW3M, welcomed the members and guests. Subsequently, Bob asked each member introduce themselves and give their most exciting thing they did as a Ham last month.
Bob, KB3KOW,  introduced Darby D’Ambrosio the Charles County Representative for the 4-H. Ms. Darby gave overview of 4-H and the various programs they support beyond animal husbandry. Darby then introduced four of the youth members of the 4-H robotics team. After the youth gave the 4-H Pledge they then gave a demonstration of their Robot Contest entry. During the presentation the youth described how they overcame refraction error during the contest. The light in the contest building was a mixture of natural light in high pressure ceiling sodium light that caused erratic operation robot mounted light sensors. The sensors had difficulty picking light refractions from different colors on the contest board. The problem was solved by ad hoc programming changes to the onboard robot computers.