Announcements

Peoria Riverfront Museum Engineering Day – 2/16/14

CIRC will once again be participating in the Peoria Riverfront Museum Engineering Day event! Come demonstrate your projects at the CIRC table or just bring your family and friends to check out all of the exciting displays. Admission to the museum will be FREE during this event! For a good summary of what to expect, check out our event article from the 2013 event. If you’re planning to help with our club’s display, setup starts at 11:00AM and they recommend you park in the lower level parking garage. All event volunteers can get their parking validated.

February 15, 2014 at 9:10 am | Announcements | No comment

2013 Bot Brawl Article in ROBOT Magazine!

Check out the September/October issue of ROBOT Magazine for an exciting article about our 2013 Bot Brawl!

July 30, 2013 at 11:06 am | Announcements, Uncategorized | No comment

WMBD 31 News This Morning (4/9/13) – CIRC Appearance

Club president Dan Toborowski appeared on WMBD 31 “News This Morning” on 4/9 with Family Science Day organizer Sara McCubbins to talk about the upcoming event and demonstrate some robots. Click the logo below to see the video!

April 10, 2013 at 8:07 pm | Announcements | No comment

Bi-Weekly Build Session Announcement

All bi-Weekly build sessions will be cancelled starting 11/29/12 until early 2013. This time of year most members’ schedules become very busy with family trips and holiday activities causing bi-weekly build session attendance to drop. In response to this we decided to cancel our build sessions over a few month period in 2011 and we’ll be doing the same this year.

We will discuss when to resume build sessions during our club meetings in early 2013. Happy Holidays to everyone!

November 29, 2012 at 11:20 am | Announcements | No comment

New Monthly Meeting Location – Lakeview Library

Starting on May 13th all monthly club meetings will now take place at the Peoria Public Library Lakeview Branch instead of the North Branch location.

1137 W. Lake Ave.
Peoria, IL 61614

May 9, 2012 at 9:32 am | Announcements | 1 comment

2012 Lakeview Museum National Engineers Day

The Central Illinois Robotics Club will be participating in the 2012 Lakeview Museum National Engineers Week event on February 19th. This event will take the place of our monthly meeting which would have been on the same day. We’ve participated in this event the past few years and pictures are posted from 2011 and 2010.

The National Engineers Week event is scheduled from 1:00PM-4:00PM with setup from 11:00AM-1:00PM. All CIRC members are encouraged to attend and bring their robots to display. Our goal at this event is to share the excitement of robotics through displays, hands-on activities, and demonstrations. We try to include examples of all types of robots such as combat, sumo, line following, humanoid, microcontroller projects, toys, commercially available robots, and more. This is a fantastic opportunity to get kids excited about engineering and science through robotics and it’s also a great place to advertise our 2012 Bot Brawl event.

For more information about this event click the link below…

2012 Lakeview Museum Engineering Week Flier

January 18, 2012 at 9:38 am | Announcements | No comment

2012 Bi-Weekly Build Sessions

Bi-Weekly build sessions will resume on January 26th and are moving to Thursday evenings. They will still take place from 6:00PM-8:00PM at PROBOTIX. You can find the complete schedule of bi-weekly build sessions on our Yahoo Group calender. Meeting announcements will automatically be sent to the Yahoo mailing list 2 days before each build session. A reminder, these build sessions will only take place if there is enough interest so please reply to the meeting announcements if you’re planning to attend.

A big thanks to Len Shelton for once again letting us use his facility for these meetings!