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Re: Starr Academy of Science and Robotics

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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
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05 Jul 2015 02:30 PM
Nine years ago, in the year 2006, a man named Joseph Starr founded Starr Academy, a small college dedicated to educating young computer scientists on robotics and robots at work in the hope that after their five years of study, graduates would go on to engineer and create new artificially intelligent robots that would aid humanity in its development. Despite the fact that the academy got off to a rocky start with few capable applicants, it is now famous as one of Britain's most prestigious colleges for producing world-changing computing pioneers and inventors.

It isn't easy to get into the academy - 100-150 freshman students are accepted each year, making for a total head-count of just over 700. Invitations will be sent out to the highest-achieving young people in need of further education, but this is rare and most have to apply. Because of the advanced nature of the courses offered, it is required for applicants to be at least eighteen years of age and have at least an A-level grade A or a high school diploma in computer science. Other equivalent qualifications are acceptable as well. Applicants often find that producing a portfolio of their past projects is also useful for landing a place in the academy.

Starr Academy itself, like many colleges, is split into four houses: House Turing, House Babbage, House Boole and House Lovelace. Each house is named after a famous computing pioneer and have been assigned the colours red (Turing), green (Babbage), blue (Boole) and yellow (Lovelace) respectively.
Students are each randomly sorted into a house at the beginning of their freshman year and will, throughout their time at Starr Academy, battle their own robot inventions for house points, which can also be earned by showing knowledge, skill and determination. They can also be taken away for cheating or bad-mannered behaviour.
At the end of each year, only senior students from the house with the most points will be given a chance to graduate with a degree. The rest walk out with nothing. Some see this as unreasonable, but Joseph Starr, the chancellor, claims that the competition builds cameraderie as well as teamwork skills.

Students sleep in their house dormitories, which are comprised of small rooms with two bunk beds and dresser space for each occupant. Showers, bathrooms and kitchens are located at the end of each dorm building, though most students prefer to eat from the cafeteria; a large building located directly east of the dorms which is open all day but only serves hot food during breakfast, lunch and dinner hours.

Next to the cafeteria is the lounge building, which is comprised of the common room and the gym. The common room is a popular place for students to relax as it is equipped with a large television, comfortable seating, and computers.

The main building, connected to the library and botfighting arena, is where the majority of the classrooms are located. Here, subjects are studied such as Computer Architecture, Coding, Electrophysics, History of Computer Science, and Mathematics. The other subjects, Ergonomics and Resistant Materials, are studied in the workshops, which are also open after hours for students to construct their robots during their free time.

Here is a visual map of the campus: http://www.sketchtoy.com/65464917

Students are free to construct as many robots as they like, but only one robot per student may be logged into the school's database as their 'active' robot - meaning the one that is used in botfights. The reason for botfights being the central focus of students' projects is that robots that can withstand the beatings of other robots will be resistant to more conditions and will thus be less likely to break, and having experience in this area guarantees readiness for work post-graduation.

However, there are rules to what features robots can have. For safety reasons, robots may not use fire, water or fast-moving edges (i.e. electric saws) unless the builder has special permission.

A generous amount of time off is granted to the students of Starr Academy. They may do what they like on weekends, and for four weeks between semesters and for six during the summer, they may return home to their families and friends. Semesters are carefully planned to fit in with the following holidays:
Thanksgiving
Christmas and Hanukkah
Easter
Halloween
Autumn break is sometimes extended to five weeks so that students can spend both Halloween and Thanksgiving at home.

A typical day lasts for nine hours and consists of seven periods, a lunch hour, morning break and homeroom time. There are three periods in the morning, followed by a half-hour break. Two more lessons are taught before lunch, then the day is finished by a half hour of homeroom and two final periods.

Each student has their own personal weekly timetable in the front of their official homework and event planner. It includes the name of the subject, the professor's initials, and the location of the lesson. There are at least two professors of each subject and several more members of staff dedicated to maintaining the clean and organised state of the campus.

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Bot Sheet:

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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
Joined: 21 Feb 2011
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05 Jul 2015 02:42 PM
[Name]:Joseph Starr
[Gender]:M
[Age]:48
[Appearance]:Starr has nice, polished brown hair with specs of white. He has a slight beard and round glasses. He has light green eyes and is usually sporting a black suit and a blue tie.
[House]:None
[Status]:Chancellor of Starr Academy
[Bio]:A billionaire because of his family's legacy, he studied at one of Britain's greatest academies. He continued to pursue in science and robotics before before beginning the Starr Academy project is 2001. Five years later, he opened the college, and is still the chancellor of the academy to this day.
[Other]:Not going to fill this out
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05 Jul 2015 03:05 PM
Character Sheet:

[Name]: Victoria O'Brien
[Gender]: Female
[Age]: 48
[Appearance]: Victoria is tall and lanky, with pointed features and round green eyes. She has short grey hair that falls in front of her face as well as tight lips. Her skin is pale and slightly wrinkled.
[House]: N/A
[Status]: Professor of Electrophysics
[Bio]: Victoria had a fairly bland upbringing, being raised in a small school in the countryside. She always told herself that she would grow into a mad scientist, and eight years ago she landed herself a position at the Academy. Though her taught subject is among the least used for constructing robots, her eccentric nature makes her lessons appeal to students.
[Other]: N/A



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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
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05 Jul 2015 03:12 PM
B1 cause spam.
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05 Jul 2015 03:21 PM
jeff
he eats steak and memes
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TheGamingCinema is not online. TheGamingCinema
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05 Jul 2015 03:34 PM
[Name]:Spyke Fly
[Gender]:Male
[Age]:18
[Appearance]:The fifth one in this photo http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/animalcrossing/images/1/14/Villager_alts_ssb4.png/revision/latest?cb=20140911194148 (Couldnt find one with only him.If you cant count he's the one with the sleepy eyes.)
[House]: Turing (?)
[Status]: ?
[Bio]: EEHGHGGHGH
[Other]: Fuzzy pickles! (Also,pickle art is a thing)



Dont play the game,just die.I just want to see the community die.
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PickachuGirl is not online. PickachuGirl
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05 Jul 2015 03:35 PM
(i'll join)
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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
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05 Jul 2015 03:43 PM
Cinema denied cause status is your year.
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05 Jul 2015 03:45 PM
[Status]: 1

(fixed it then)


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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
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05 Jul 2015 03:47 PM
Accepted
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05 Jul 2015 03:48 PM
(*insert happy japanese music*)


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05 Jul 2015 03:50 PM
May join later.
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PickachuGirl is not online. PickachuGirl
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05 Jul 2015 04:11 PM
[Name]: Larie
[Gender]: Female
[Age]: 19
[Appearance]: She's short, being 5'0". Her large eyes are a light amber, with her long curly hair being black. Larie has a mediumsized button nose. She has black framed round glasses, and her lips are a little thick and her cheeks are soft. Typically, she wears a skirt, a white blouse, and black shoes with socks.
[Status]: First Year Student
[Bio]: She isn't stupid. She had a typical upbringing in the busy city of Chicago. Her school was decent, she was actually one of the top of her class, but she never had much friends during those years. She applied when she was 18, and was accepted.
[Other]: fuzzy pickles
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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
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05 Jul 2015 04:56 PM
@pick accepted
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sassygirl770 is not online. sassygirl770
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05 Jul 2015 05:03 PM
Name: Alice Grayson
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Appearance: Long dark brown hair. Pale skin. Glasses. Blueish green eyes. Tall and slender.
Status: First year student
Bio: Alice was born in Denver, Colorado. Alice's mother was suffering from depression because her mother died and Alice's father worked at an industry. Alice's mother refused to work so Alice's father was the only working one in the family. One day Alice's father took her to his office. Alice was amazed at the machinery. For the rest of her life, she was absolutely obsessed with machines for the rest of her life.
Other: Fuzzy Pickles
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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
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05 Jul 2015 05:07 PM
Sassy accepted
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PickachuGirl is not online. PickachuGirl
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05 Jul 2015 05:14 PM
(also my house is lovelace)
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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
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05 Jul 2015 05:26 PM
woops

sassy denied, you need a house

I'm tired OK.
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sassygirl770 is not online. sassygirl770
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05 Jul 2015 05:32 PM
House: Boole
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sassygirl770 is not online. sassygirl770
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05 Jul 2015 05:55 PM
Bump
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Another bump
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06 Jul 2015 03:11 AM
Sassy accepted
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06 Jul 2015 03:52 AM
[Name]: Cian Banyon
[Gender]: Female
[Age]: 19
[Appearance]: White-blonde hair to her waist that she braids, green eyes, and relatively pale from spending hours inside as a child. Cian is awful short, at five nil, and can be mistaken for a child by any who don't know her. Cian is also rather light, at 90 pounds, but still being a healthy weight. She often is seen wearing a white tunic-style top, black jeans, black leather boots, and a red leather jacket several sizes too big.
[House]: Babbage
[Status]: Freshman
[Bio]: Cian grew up around machinery, though most of it medieval. Her mother worked in a forge of sorts, and her step-father worked in the military. At age eleven, Cian's older brother, Eric, died in a hunting accident, and so Cian picked up robotics as that had been his main hobby. At thirteen, Cian's family fell apart after her other brother, Peter, ran away from home. This left Cian to her own devices. She advanced quickly in school, aiming to be a better person than either of her brothers. By the time she was sixteen, Cian had her sights set on a career in robotics one day. After that, she began to pick up other hobbies after a friend commented she was too set on being better than her brothers, and nothing else. Still, she kept on working towards her goal, stopping at no costs.
[Other]: Fuzzy pickles. Also, the jacket Cian wears is Eric's, but if anyone asks why she wears such a large jacket, she just mumbles something about Eric, never really mentioning his death. If they press the matter of the over-large jacket, Cian is known to get violent, as it is a touchy matter for her.


-Long lost opinions, all the words you can't redeem-
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Rodude65 is not online. Rodude65
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06 Jul 2015 03:54 AM
accepted
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06 Jul 2015 04:12 AM
When will RP start?


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