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The Florida FIRST Competition will be broadcast live on Friday and Saturday. Follow this link for information: http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/webcasts/regionals_2007.php

Please remember to bring your signed permission forms and hotel checks by the end of the day Tuesday.

We will be staying at:

Crestwood Suites - Orlando UCF
11424 University Blvd.
Orlando, FL US 32817

FIRST Robotics Competition
Florida Regional
Public Agenda
March 8-10, 2007

Thursday, March 8, 2007

7:45AM 3 Team Reps to uncrate
8:30AM Pits and Machine Shop open
8:30AM-12:00PM Registration and inspection
10:00AM-5:00PM Practice rounds
12:00PM - 1:00PM Lunch
8:00PM Pits and Machine Shop close

Friday, March 9, 2007

8:00AM Pits and Machine Shop open
9:00AM Opening ceremonies
9:30AM-4:15PM Seeding matches
12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch
4:15PM Awards ceremony
6:00PM Pits and Machine Shop close

Saturday, March 10, 2007

8:00AM Pits and machine shop open
9:00AM Opening ceremonies
9:20AM-11:45AM Seeding matches
11:45AM-12:00PM Alliance Selections
12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM-3:00PM Final rounds
3:00PM Awards ceremony
5:00PM Pits and Machine Shop close, crates packed for shipping
**Schedule subject to change. All times are estimated based on flow of rounds.
See Pit Administration table for updated times.

There will be a meeting to go over documentation and prepare for competition after school in Room B-34

Now that we have finished doing all that we can with the robot and shipped it off we need to start planning what we are going to do. We have a lot to do and very little time. We need to start determining exactly what we have to do in the few weeks we have left leading up to the beginning of the competition on March 8th. We will be having a few dispersed meetings in the following weeks in which we will plan out all of the details of everything that we need to do, and what will be needed to do those things.
Here's to hoping that we will be as formidable of an opponent as I perceive that we can be if Murphy's law stops working the way it is.
Cheers,
David.

WEBCHAT: The Road to Engineering
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
3:00 to 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time

http://robotics.nasa.gov/EngineersWeek/chat.php

Students will have a chance to ask questions of a diverse group of engineers from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The 30-minute chat will focus on how these engineers pursued a career in engineering. A transcript of the chat will also be available online shortly following the end of the event.

There will be no meeting on Tuesday 2/20. On Wednesday 2/21 we will meet at the hangar to clean up.

This is a post from chief delphi written 2 years ago on ship date by Gary Dillard. I wasn't sure if you all were familar with that website yet and I thought you might need to read this about now.

Build is almost over and the fun begins. Call if you need me
Wendy Austin
Orlando Area Coodinator


I wanted to send out a note to all the rookie teams who are asking themselves today...... what just happened?

If you packed and shipped a fully functional robot that does everything you originally planned for it to do - you did better than 99.9% of all the teams in this competition.

For the rest of you.......
We are very proud of you. Your robot may not be able to move, or maybe that's about all it does, but you followed the rules, you gave it your best, you learned alot of stuff along the way. Some of you had no engineering mentors, some had no machine shop support, some had little or no financial
support, some had to fight school board policy to compete, some of you had no-one with software experience. Alot of things went wrong in the past 6 weeks, but you are about to find out (if you haven't already) how cool it is to be part of the FIRST family.

This year is a 3 on 3 competition; as in the past we will be paired with some great teams, some average teams and some BLT's (brave little toasters as we call them) through qualifying. We will carry some teams; some teams will carry us. We will try our hardest to win every match, and we have a
strategy for every type of robot. If your robot won't move, your job is to not move. If our robot stops moving, your job may be to push us back. There's alot of luck involved. Sometimes you'll do more than asked, sometimes less. All I can say is, we want you on the field with us. We want
to see the excitement in your eyes when your plywood shoebox keeps the other alliance's powdercoat painted, precision machined, fully automatic mega-arm from scoring a tetra.

Please don't act embarrassed if your designs didn't work out; join the club. You are learning and will get better every year. When you get to the competition we will have a small lathe and mill in our pit if you need a part made; we have software guys just itching to help you debug your code; we've got extra bolts and nuts and whatevers for you to use; and we'll
probably have to stand in line behind all the other veteran teams who are already helping you. We are not better than you; we may have more resources than you, or more
experience than you, but we expect to learn something from you and we hope you will learn something from us. We plan to have a blast at the competition, and we might even win it with you while we're at it.

We want you here, and we want you back. Welcome.

Use survey in team site.

The regional agenda has been posted. Members, please read the information in the Team Only section of the Spruce Creek Robotics site. The dates are March 8, 9, & 10.