Robots: Behind the Design Who is submitting?

[Wayne C.]

I've been working hard to get together the many requirements for the submission to be considered for the FIRST book before the 1 month deadline is up. And it is becoming a major production to do it.

I was wondering- who else is sending or did send in a submission?

WC

[Not2B]

We are.
We haven't yet, and the deadline is getting closer....
But we will.

Somehow we FORGOT to submit the chairman's award this year until it was 15 minutes late, and the book entry represents the team's chance to make up for it.

Mostly it will get me to leave the students alone for a while. (They do get NERVOUS when I'm not worried about something...)

[Tim Baird]

I've been working hard to get together the many requirements for the submission to be considered for the FIRST book before the 1 month deadline is up. And it is becoming a major production to do it.

I was wondering- who else is sending or did send in a submission?

WC
Gael Force submitted for the Motorola Quality Award (UTC Regional). It was fun (insert sarcasm here) getting it all together on time, especially considering that we forgot about it for the first week and a half...

[natis]

The High Rollers we submitted for Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award that we got in Phoenix, and in the process of finishing the other submission for the Radio Shack Innovation in Control Award. It required a lot of dedication and time to answer the question as complete as possible.
Nats :rolleyes:

[Lil' Lavery]

Sadly, 116 could not get everything together in time to compile everything into an entry for our Innovation in Control Submission from the Peachtree Regional. :(
We didn't get a chance to take a picture of the robot against a white wall, gather the CAD/Design images from our integration team, proofread the submission, etc. Good luck to all of those who submitted!

[Ellery]

The X-CATS submitted for the Motorola Quality Award we received at the Finger Lakes Regional. It definitely wasn't a trivial task. We had tons of pictures to pair through and also luckily enough Xerox is our sponsor since we had a DocuColor 12 Printer at our site to print the High Res Photo quality prints they requested. It took over hours to print the pictures since the TIFF files were close to 300 MB per Batch. The Write up is also sometimes very redundant with repsect to the questions they asked.

All in all the 1 month time limit was a stretch still. We had it sent it the day before and it made it on the last day at FIRST that noon with USPS express mail.

Luckily we'll get a chance to see it in print. Good luck to the rest of the teams submitting.

Ellery

[Wayne Doenges]

Team 1501 submitted our entry before the March 17th deadline. 30 days after BMR. We had plenty of time to spare (IE 2 days) :D
I wish FIRST had given everyone some notice about the robot in front of a white background when they revealed the chance to be published. We had a very battle worn robot at the end of the BMR. It wouldn't looked good in the book :ahh:

[Joe Ross]

We're in the final editing phases of our submission for the Xerox Creativity Award.

How long is everyone's submission? Ours looks like it will be in the range of 20 pages.

[Karthik]

Have any teams heard back from FIRST or the publishing company? Team 1114 submitted for the Leadership in Control award, and is still awaiting word.

[Ellery]

Hey Karthik,

We're still waiting to hear back as well but from reading the instructions there's nothing in it that indicates that they'll even let you know if you are picked or not. The only thing it says is that they can offer a group discount for the book when it gets published. So we're waiting anxiously as well.

Elelry

[Wayne C.]

Guys-

the literature said September for decisions but I am betting at least November. That is if it comes through at all.

I seem to recall a Disney movie about FIRST with Noah Wylie and "FIRST water" in every store in america.......

WC :cool:

[Dave Flowerday]

the literature said September for decisions but I am betting at least November. That is if it comes through at all.
Based on these two sentences in the submission guidelines:
The book will be published and available through major bookstore chains such as Amazon, Borders, and B&N, as well as around the globe and possibly in multiple languages, in the fall of 2007.
Upon publication, teams whose work is selected for the book will be notified...
I assumed we will not know anything until the fall of 2007.

[Wayne C.]

Based on these two sentences in the submission guidelines:


I assumed we will not know anything until the fall of 2007.


Dave- something somewhere was indicating a decision this fall. I know they need at least a half year to produce it.

[Beth Sweet]

Based on these two sentences in the submission guidelines:


I assumed we will not know anything until the fall of 2007.

If we can't wait until Kickoff, I want to see how well teams wait until fall '07...

[bcieslak]

You mean their going make $39 a book after they charge us six grand or more to take part in the competition?

Magazines like SERVO and ROBOT are always looking for good robotics articles and will actually pay you very well if they like what you submitted.

Check out their websites for author guidelines.

Why give all your hard work away for free? Think twice before signing away your publishing rights.


BC
Autoflex Artilce Mar 2006 Servo

[Vogel648]

We will be submitting for the Innovation in Control award

[Dan Zollman]

I don't know if we'll have time to put together a submission.

You mean their going make $39 a book after they charge us six grand or more to take part in the competition?

Why not give us free food at competitions? Why not put $39 more in materials in the kit? Why not make Championship free?

There is nothing wrong with selling a book.

Magazines like SERVO and ROBOT are always looking for good robotics articles and will actually pay you very well if they like what you submitted.

Check out their websites for author guidelines.

Why give all your hard work away for free? Think twice before signing away your publishing rights.

This book will provide publicity to more teams. Perhaps more teams will see the book than see the magazine, or this book will reach a different audience. It would be nice to have a section about our robot in a nice, hardcover book after we put so much work into the robot. Why not make a submission for the book AND write an article for a magazine?

[MGoelz]

We will be submitting for the GM Industrial Design Award.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

We're putting together a submission for our "sucker," which won the General Motors Industrial Design award. We've got about half of it done, and that’s on top of all the other stuff we're doing. Hopefully it will be done by tomorrow...

If it isn't done in time we'll just edit some things and put in our submission for the Motorola Quality Award - which we also won with the "sucker" :D

You mean their going make $39 a book after they charge us six grand or more to take part in the competition?

Magazines like SERVO and ROBOT are always looking for good robotics articles and will actually pay you very well if they like what you submitted.

Check out their websites for author guidelines.

Why give all your hard work away for free? Think twice before signing away your publishing rights.


BC
Autoflex Artilce Mar 2006 Servo

I believe Twain once said something about books winding up on shelves...
and magazines on the bottom of bird cages...

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Does anyone know how to find out the resolution of an image? I'm using The GIMP if that helps any.

[Alan8or]

Does anyone know how to find out the resolution of an image? I'm using The GIMP if that helps any.

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but if you go to Image -> Scale Image, it has X and Y resolutions. Other than that, I don't know.

Anyways, 418 plans to submit for their Innovation in Control Award at LSR. At least, I think that's the plan.

[JaneYoung]

Anyways, 418 plans to submit for their Innovation in Control Award at LSR. At least, I think that's the plan.

That's the plan, you guys just have to get it done. :D

[RoboMom]

Could somebody please post the links to the information for these submissions for THIS year-2007? (Not for the 2006 year).

[Joe Ross]

Could somebody please post the links to the information for these submissions for THIS year-2007? (Not for the 2006 year).

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/Community/FRC/FRC_Documents_and_Updates/Get_Published.pdf

[Storcky]

Team 1629 finished their submission for the Innovation in Control Award after 4 hours the night before it was due.

Just out of curiosity
Which teams who were in the book last year are elligible again this year?

[Kristian Calhoun]

Just out of curiosity
Which teams who were in the book last year are elligible again this year?The teams in bold are those that qualify again this year.

16
25
33
86
100
111
121
123
141
190
191
207
225
237
293
294
322
330
357
384
418
467
494
694
1024
1114
1319
1501
1510
1629

Edit: The team information on FIRST's website has not been update for every team. If your team hasn't been bolded, and qualifies to be in the book again, send me a quick message, and I'll make the correction.

[Nuttyman54]

The teams in bold are those that qualify again this year.


190 qualified as well with the Motorola Quality Award.

[Kristian Calhoun]

190 qualified as well with the Motorola Quality Award.
Oops! Sorry about that - I began checking for the awards by going through the team information supplied by FIRST (https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teaminfo&team=190) (which doesn't list the award) and then halfway through began checking the data against 1114's scouting database (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1975), and must have missed it.

[DanDon]

Team 375 was eligible to submit last year, we didn't, however we are eligibible again this year, a few times over actually. We will be submitting under our Championship Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology award.

[Ben Martin]

We won the Motorola Quality Award at the Championship, so we'll be submitting an entry for that award as well.

[Chris]

Hey,

I'm trying to finish up 148's Submission for the Lone Star GM Award, and just had a quick question.

On the Grant of Rights Form,
what is meant by Description of Work and Credit Line Fields?
I found them mildly confusing...Any help would be appreciated..


Thanks,
Chris C.

[Joe Ross]

330 submitted our entry for the Motorola Quality award at the Los Angeles Regional. We're in the process right now of putting together our entry for the GM Industrial Design award from San Diego and Championships.

[Vince]

Chris -

I agree that the form is confusing.

For the description of work you can list the team award name.

For the credit, just put your team name.

Thanks - Vince

[Danny Diaz]

On the Grant of Rights Form,
what is meant by Description of Work and Credit Line Fields?

I interpreted this to be what you'd see if you took a look at the book and were interested to see a quick "at a glance" summary of a team. For example, the "Description of Work" is really a "Description of the Robot" and the "Credit Line" is, well, I guess the credits for who wrote the article. If the team wrote it, then make something relevant.

Official Team Name: Team 418, LASA Robotics
Description of Work: Double-Articulated Robot with Innovative Control System
Credit Line: Mentors, Coaches, and Team Members of LASA Robotics

At least, this is my interpretation.

-Danny