Destiny Mujica introduced our guest speaker, Kathleen Gately and shared her bio:

Teacher - Humanities at Graduate School of Boerne (English, Latin, Literature, History)

Head Robotics coach and program director - Kendall Educational Alliance

11 years coaching robotics

B.A. from Texas State University in English & Political Science

 

Kathleen thanked the Oak Hills Rotary Club for supporting Kendall Robotics with our financial as well as volunteer support.

This is her 11^th year of coaching – last year 9 teams

Qualified 17 times for world championships

FIRST is the platform that they use and it is competitive robotics.

Here are just a few interesting facts about the robotics program:

President Legris shared a little bit about our virtual coffee Friday. It was well attended and we shared our favorite morning brews. Allyson Hamlin and husband Richard demonstrated their coffee maker that looked like something from a chemistry lab!
Membership chair Ken Ruiz shared some updates about the Gold Raffle. Tickets are still available for sale. Please reserve your tickets with Treasurer Fred Timmons and pick them up

President John talked about the upcoming Virtual District Town Hall Meeting. Rick King will be the guest speaker. Topic: "Who touched you?" Who invited you to Rotary? Reserve your spot for Thursday Sept 17 at 6:30 pm on the district website!

Board meeting tomorrow at 11 am on zoom. Club members are welcome to join the meeting. Non board members are asked to be observers only because President John has a full agenda and wants to cover everything in the time allowed.

 

Bruce Richter's email was hacked earlier this week. Some of the hacked emails were sent to club members.

Immediate Past President Rick Tarbell connects with John Barnes former member from time to time and hopes that he will be able to join us for one of our meetings. Mr. Barnes is with the South Texas Blood Bank. 

President Legris closed the meeting and led the club with the Four Way Test.