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Ypsilanti Heritage Festival (MI) FRC Fun Run
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15-08-2008 to 17-08-2008 12:00 to 19:00
Team 470 hosts a massive circus style FIRST Demo tent at the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival every year. The festival draws people from all over SE Michigan, and includes vendors and heritage demos from all over the country. Info on the festival itself (and a full schedule of events) may be found at: http://www.ypsilantiheritagefestival.com/

The FIRST tent is located by the Freighthouse parking area, in Depot Town.
(Corner of Cross St and River, next to the railroad tracks.) The tent includes a partial FRC field, a full sound/PA system playing music (like at any Regional), pit and information tables, banner space, power for battery chargers, and an area for FLL and FTC robots to demo their machines.

All FRC teams are invited to come with their current season robots, and play! It's a great PR and social event for all teams! "Mock contest" FRC demos run all day and evening. Teams attending get to hang out and socialize with other teams, play your robot with & against other teams as much as you wish, talk to the crowd about this FIRST craziness, recruit new students/mentors/sponsors from the crowd (yes, even far away teams often find YHF attendees that'll help their team!), and when you're not demoing, you can even go around and enjoy the festival with other team members in groups, or just hang out.

The YHF runs Fri noon-9pm, Sat 10am-9pm, and Sun 11am-7pm.

We can accommodate a few crates within the tent for storage or tools, but contact us first for space. (There will be 24 hour "all night" guarding of the tent by team members, to insure robot security should you wish to attend more than one day.)

The tent is not cheap to rent, so we do ask for a donation of $75/team to help defray its cost. Please contact Steve Martin (CDF:emusteve) for more information, or to schedule a time slot for your team's attendance. We try to schedule attendance times, to insure we have at least 4 or more FRC robots present at all times to entertain, and play the other teams!

Thanks, and we hope to see your team at the Heritage Festival!
 
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