the IndyRAGE - Robotics All Girls Event

[Chris Fultz]

The IndyRAGE is October 2 - 3, 2015.
Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis.

We are still finalizing details, but the current plans are below.

Registration is open now. Entry fee will be $50 - $100. We are finalizing some sponsors and once these are in place we will know the final cost per team.

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The Indy RAGE – TENTATIVE AGENDA

FRIDAY – OCTOBER 2

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM Pits and Field Set-Up
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Team Load In and Pit Set Up, Radio Programming
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Panel Discussion, Auditorium (Topics TBD)
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM College / Company Displays Set-Up and Open


SATURDAY – OCTOBER 3

7:30 AM Doors Open
9:00 AM Opening Ceremony / Guest Speaker 1
9:30 AM Qualification Matches Begin
Judges in Action
Noon Matches End
Judging Ends
Open Mingle & Lunch (provided), Cafeteria
1:30 PM Guest Speaker 2
Alliance Selection (time dependent on number of teams and schedule)
Playoffs
5:00 PM Awards Ceremony
Closing
6:00 PM All Teams Exit
8:00 PM Field / Pits Dis-Assembled and Packed
Clean Up Complete

8:00 AM – 3:00 PM College / Company Displays Set-Up and Open

[Chris Fultz]

Event Highlights –

Friday Evening:

Panel Discussion: 3 - 4 Female Professionals. Topics may include career options, education options, challenges in the workforce, how to overcome bias.


Saturday:

Robot Competition – We will play the FIRST FRC 2015 Game “Recycle Rush”, with no rule changes from the official FRC season. (www.usfirst.org/FRC)

Teams – Our goal is a 24 team event. All teams will play in the Playoffs. If fewer than 24 teams register, we will have a modified playoff process.

Drive Teams – Drive teams, including the Drive Coach, must be female. We strongly encourage the drive coach to be a non-student to provide an opportunity for an adult to work with a team.

Pit Crews – Pit crews are encouraged to be all-female. We recognize this as a significant challenge to teams, so this is not a requirement. Teams are encouraged to recruit new mentors for this event!

Robot Transportation – Safety is at the top of the priority list. If teams need assistance with robot movement to and from the field, please ask the field reset crew for assistance.

Guest Speaker 1 (Opening Ceremony) – Motivational speaker, Relevant to young women interested in professional and technical careers.

Guest Speaker 2 (Alliance Selection) – Motivational speaker, Relevant to young women interested in professional and technical careers.

Open Mingle & Lunch – Open, casual discussion for team members and volunteers. Discuss careers, life balance, education, other topics. Lunch provided.


General Information:

Team Host – Each team will have a female professional provided to them as a new member for the day. The goal for the Host is to learn about the team and team members, FIRST, and to share their experiences. The goal for the team is to share their knowledge, learn, and turn their Host into a FIRST Mentor, Volunteer or Advocate. Team Hosts are allowed to be a 5th Drive Team member within the guidelines of the drive Coach role.

Volunteers – Our goal is 100% female volunteers in every role. In some cases, due to the experience required, this may not be possible. In those specific cases, we will have an experienced volunteer provide coaching and training for a female interested in learning those roles.

Judging – There will be judged awards. All judging will be complete by noon Saturday. Awards listing will be provided to teams in advance of the event.

T-Shirts – A limited number of event shirts will be available for purchase.

Event Logo – The IndyRAGE ’15 event logo can be downloaded and used by teams for their shirts.

Twitter - @theIndyRAGE

Team Registration - Register through this site: http://vols.pt/geeP6j

Entry Fee – Thanks to our great sponsors, the entry fee will be $50 - $100 per team and will be determined soon. Registered teams will be sent an invoice in early September.

Volunteers – Volunteer through this site: http://vols.pt/gerhog

Questions: theindyrage@gmail.com

[Josh Drake]

This sounds like a lot of fun. Can't wait to tell the team.

[Monochron]

Man I wish we could make it. This sounds awesome.

[Tyler Olds]

We have some female students that were very excited to hear about this at IRI. Wave will definitely be trying to make the trip down.

[mastachyra]

As an all girl team, RoboPride is super excited about this! Can't wait to see the competition!

[hardcopi]

We have enough girls to field a drive team and pit crew... but most of them are in band and doing an invitational that day. Good luck though.

[mastachyra]

I just want to keep promoting this event, so we can make it happen. It is really important to have these all girl events. So lets fill up all the slots!

[Taylor]

A modified-for-IndyRAGE version of Yertle will be making an appearance at this event, should we be selected to attend.

[tindleroot]

I'm just curious, are any of the teams bringing girls who are not already involved with robotics? Or possibly some who are new to FRC this coming year?

[Taylor]

Of our ten RAGE students, five are new to the team.
Of our three RAGE mentors, one is new to the team.

[mastachyra]

I'm sure I will have many new to FRC girls coming along. We will use this event to introduce them to the beautiful chaos that is an FRC event.

[Chris Fultz]

Registration is $100 per team (can be paid at the event).

That covers event participation AND lunch for female team members and female mentors who join the open lunch discussion event.

Registration deadline is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11.

At this time, the following teams have registered (8).

1501 - Team THRUST
2781 - RoboPride
1024 - Kil-A-Bytes
461 - Westside Boiler Invation
2826 - Wave Robotics
1529 - CyberCards
4103 - Roborioles
234 - CyberBlue


There are still needs for volunteers at this event - please encourage others to volunteer!

[mastachyra]

Last chance to register!!!

The deadline is tomorrow and I'd love to see the FRC community support these young women!

If you can make it, send the girls on your team to show us what they've got.

[Chris Fultz]

We have 12 teams registered for the 2016 IndyRAGE.
We will run the event as an exhibition and make some modifications to the schedule to reflect the number of teams and participants.

1501 Team THRUST
2781 RoboPride
1024 Kil-A-Bytes
461 Westside Boiler Invasion
2826 Wave Robotics
1529 CyberCards
4103 Roborioles
3494 Quadrangles
3940 CyberTooth
5188 Classified Robotics
829 Warren Robotics
234 Cyber Blue

[Chris Fultz]

1501 Team THRUST
2781 RoboPride
1024 Kil-A-Bytes
461 Westside Boiler Invasion
2826 Wave Robotics
1529 CyberCards
4103 Roborioles
3494 Quadrangles
3940 CyberTooth
5188 Classified Robotics
829 Warren Robotics
1720 PhyXtGears
234 Cyber Blue

The updated agenda is:

The Indy RAGE – UPDATED AGENDA

FRIDAY – OCTOBER 2

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM Pits and Field Set-Up
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Team Load In and Pit Set Up,
Radio Programming


SATURDAY – OCTOBER 3

7:30 AM Doors Open
9:00 AM Opening Ceremony / Guest Speaker 1
9:30 AM Qualification Matches Begin
Judges and Team Hosts in Action

11:30 AM Open Mingle & Lunch (provided), Cafeteria
NOON Panel Discussion, Cafeteria
1:00 PM Panel Ends, Return to Gym

1:30 PM Qualification Matches Resume
3:00 PM Guest Speaker 2
Alliance Selection
Playoffs
5:00 PM Awards Ceremony & Closing
6:00 PM All Teams Exit

8:00 PM Field / Pits Dis-Assembled and Packed
Clean Up Complete

8:00 AM – 3:00 PM College / Company Displays Open


Alliances 2 team alliances for Qualifications and Playoffs
Playoffs Top ranked teams blind-draw partner
Modified Playoff Structure

[tindleroot]

Can anyone post some results? Thanks.

[Knufire]

For reference, tournament was played 2v2. Top 7 seeds were randomly paired with one of the bottom 7 seeds for elims

2826/461 beat 5188/234 in the finals. 1024 was the third seed. When the volunteers are done packing up I'm sure someone will post the full results.

[IndySam]

Seriously proud of our Lady Goats today and the rest of the team that was there cheering them on.

Big thanks to Cyber Blue and all the volunteers who made this event happen.

Every female FIRSTer should have an opportunity to play in an event like this.

[Chris Fultz]

With the small number of teams (14) we modified the alliances and playoffs a little.

We played 2 v 2 with a 10 minute cycle time to allow time between matches for repairs, discussions and planning. The slower cycle time was a benefit with so many "new" drive teams and volunteers.

After qualifications, the top 7 ranked teams pulled their alliance partner from a hat, to form 2 team alliances. We then played 7 matches so each alliance played twice, an the top 2 alliances then moved to Finals. Finales were best 2 of 3.

The top 7 Alliances are below.
1 2826 - 461
2 5188 - 234
3 1024 - 829
4 4103 - 3940
5 1501 - 2781
6 3494 - 1529
7 4926 - 1720

For the finals, Alliance 1 and 2 advanced for a best of 3.
Alliance 2 (5188-234) won match 1, Alliance 1 (2826-461) won matches 2 and 3 to be Champions.

For awards, we had "Host / Judges" who spent time with the teams, about 30 - 40 minutes talking with a goal of the Host learning about the team, and the team learning about their host (all professional women, most in engineering / technical roles).

Awards

2826 - #1 Rank
1024 - Awesome Technical Description
829 - Best Use of Controls
5188 - Best Team Dynamics
3940 - Girl Power (Team Spirit)
2826 - Judges Awesome Award
2826 - Mentor Award

Thanks to Perry Meridian High School for letting us host this event, to all of the volunteers (many who were new to FIRST), to the PMHS Dad's Club for doing concessions, and to all of the teams who took a chance on a new event and new event concept. We had an awesome time.

[carpedav000]

Quick question; does anyone have video of the 461 offseason machine? I have never seen it but from what I have heard/read about it is making it sound like an absolute monster.

[Knufire]

Quick question; does anyone have video of the 461 offseason machine? I have never seen it but from what I have heard/read about it is making it sound like an absolute monster.

It's debuing at CAGE.

[carpedav000]

It's debuing at CAGE.

Cant wait to see it.

[Peyton Yeung]

Quick question; does anyone have video of the 461 offseason machine? I have never seen it but from what I have heard/read about it is making it sound like an absolute monster.

I wouldn't really call it a monster but it fulfills a role that not many Indiana robots fill.

[logank013]

Any Qualification Results? Like the qualification averages and ranks? thanks

[Taylor]

Any Qualification Results? Like the qualification averages and ranks? thanks

DATA (https://docs.google.com/a/perryschools.org/spreadsheets/d/1VC-BHzsBV4GBfnMfRZOec5JQBx-0e_UBv4uvXeAN7aE/edit?usp=sharing)

Final rankings based on average qualification score:
1 2826
2 5188
3 1024
4 4103
5 1501
6 3494
7 4926
8 829
9 3940
10 461
11 234
12 1720
13 2781
14 1529

Final rankings based on average elimination score:
1 2826 & 461
2 5188 & 234
3 3494 & 1529
4 1024 & 829
5 1501 & 2781
6 4926 & 1720
7 4103 & 3940

The alliance selection consisted of the top 7 teams picking the remaining 7 teams out of a hat. I thought it was quirky that the only two landfill robots ended up on the same alliance (4926 & 1720).

If you follow the link at the top, I also calculated what the rankings would have been using a traditional WLT system, for my own amusement. It is the red column. (I used alliance scores rather than a strength of schedule tiebreaker because I didn't think SoS applied to this defense-less game).

[carpedav000]

I wouldn't really call it a monster but it fulfills a role that not many Indiana robots fill.

Theyre a landfill bot now?

[tindleroot]

Theyre a landfill bot now?

Sounds like canburglars to me.

[mastachyra]

Team 234 did a great job of hosting this event. Thank you for helping me inspire these young women!

The energy around my team grows each time we attend a wonderful event like this. Can't wait for next year!

[Taylor]

My favorite part of IndyRAGE actually happened right after the event, and some form of it happens at every event.
It was chilly, spitting rain, vans and trailers were lined up to load out, when one team's toolbox tipped and spilled onto the parking lot and sidewalk. Immediately about a dozen people, all in different t-shirts, converged on the site and made quick work of the mess. One of the girls stood up, looked around, and said, "Somebody should take a picture of this and put it on the website, because this is FIRST right here."