DUEL ON THE DELAWARE - SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE - OCTOBER 11, 2008
SPONSORS - Salem Community College, DuPont, NASA, First State Robotics
HOSTS - Teams MOE 365 and LuNaTeCs 316


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* FIRST Tech Challenge "Face Off" Scrimmage
* NEMO Meeting Scheduled
* TALON military robot from Foster-Miller on display
* Play "You've Been Sentenced" at the Duel this October
* Watch the Duel via WEBCAST this year!
* Bulk Lunch Pre-Order Form attached
* MOE "Green Man Group" to entertain
* "Mike Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award"
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OLD NEWS, BUT GOOD NEWS
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* We are proud to have Wayne Penn as our Duel Emcee again this year
* 5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive
= continue gathering those books!
* 2nd Annual Sneaker Drive
* Still accepting Volunteer Sign-ups
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2008 FIRST TECH CHALLENGE SCRIMMAGE

The Duel will once again include the official playing field for this season's FIRST Tech Challenge game "Face Off." Find out more about the game at the FIRST Tech Challenge link
http://www.usfirst.org/community/ftc...nt.aspx?id=962


NEMO MEETING SCHEDULED

Team 357's own Chris Troy will be leading a NEMO (Non-Engineering Mentor's Organization) Meeting at the Duel. Times will be announced at the event.

TALON MILITARY ROBOT ON DISPLAY

One of the TALON family of military robots from Foster-Miller, will be on display at the Duel on the Delaware this year.
http://www.foster-miller.com/lemming.htm

YOU'VE BEEN SENTENCED GAME

“You've Been Sentenced!” is the first game in history to turn the activity of
sentence making into a very funny, playable, and challenging game.
Using a unique word deck of pentagon shaped cards containing conjugations
of funny words, famous names from throughout history, familiar places, and wild
cards, players have to make grammatically correct and justifiable sentences.
The real fun begins when players have to read their sentences out loud and
explain what they mean to the rest of players. The players form the jury and
vote thumbs up or down on whether the sentence and justification stand and the
points are scored. The basic game features 540 cards with over 2,500 words to
insure billions of possible sentences.

In addition to the card game, the game creator McNeill Designs has developed
an online version of “You’ve Been Sentenced”. The online version of the game
will be featured this year at the Duel on the Delaware. Also featured will be the
new Robotics Add-On deck developed by team 365, MOE. Please plan to join
us at the game table to check out the Robotics deck and test your grammarian skills!

For game rules, check out the “You’ve Been Sentenced!” website
http://www.mcneilbrighterminds.com/ybs.asp

DUEL WILL BE WEBCAST FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR

We are honored to be working with Scott L from the Tigertrons (Team 222), who will
be handling the webcast of the Duel this fall. The Duel webcast page is

http://asp.shinraikon.com/duelvii.aspx

Please take a look. More detailed info will be forthcoming.

BULK LUNCH PRE-ORDERS WILL BE AVAILABLE AGAIN THIS YEAR

Teams will be able to pre-order lunches again this year. Here is the lunch pre-order form. Save some bucks for food for your team!

GREEN MAN GROUP TO ENTERTAIN

MOE 365's "Green Man Group" will be sounding the beat over lunch. Teams are encouraged to join in playing or dancing.


MICHAEL WADE DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER AWARD - NOMINATION PROCESS CLOSED

Thanks to all teams who submitted a nomination!

The FIRST Community does a terrific job of recognizing volunteers and mentors. The planners of the Duel event would like to continue the tradition with the 4nd Annual Duel Master Volunteer Award.

This award is a combination of the FIRST Woodie Flowers Award, FIRST Unsung Hero Award, and the FIRST Volunteer Recognition Award. This award celebrates a FIRST team mentor, who demonstrates the spirit and values of what FIRST is all about.

In honor of Mike Wade, who made the Duel on the Delaware possible by providing his NASA field and much assistance since 2001, this award will now be called the “Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award.” Mike exemplified what we are recognizing with the Duel Master Volunteer Award, so it only fitting that this award acknowledges Mike’s contributions.

Teams attending the Duel on the Delaware will have an opportunity to acknowledge and recognize one of their own for contributions to their team and to FIRST.

Those previously recognized include Ron Karpinski, Dina Campagna, and Bob Foell.


WAYNE PENN TO EMCEE DUEL ON THE DELAWARE IN 2008

The Duel is honored to have the one and only WAYNE PENN be our emcee for another year.

SUCCESS WON'T WAIT BOOK DRIVE

5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive
at the Duel on the Delaware - October 11th, 2008

Team who brings most weight in books wins a prize
(magazines, encyclopedias and textbooks NOT ACCEPTED)
www.successwontwait.org

Teams!!! Continue collecting those books for our annual book drive!

See your team (and lots of books) at the Duel on October 11th!

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