JUMPSTART Training Sessions
 

Hello MN FRC Community!

There is a pre-season training event available for all FRC teams at St Cloud State University. The sessions are planned with the idea of jumpstarting the area teams before Christmas Break. JUMPSTART will take place on Saturday, December 5th from 8:30-3PM.

See JUMPSTART Here.

There will be four rounds of sessions starting at 9AM (with Kick-off starting at 8:30AM). During the lunch break there will be campus tours, company showcase, Swap Meet, Robot showcase, and a Pit showcase.
The day will end with a wrap up session and the teams will be out by 3PM.

Bison Robotics will also be helping out by providing a lot of the talent for the sessions. They will be showcasing what they are doing with Ri3d (Greenhorns) this year as well.

We are lucky to have SCSU and the Central Minnesota Manufacturers Association help out with this endeavor - they are picking up the registration fee for the students and mentors and this includes the lunch fee at Garvey Commons!

Teams: Have only the team coach/lead mentor fill out the registration form. Registration will close November 20 (or when we reach capacity).

Let me know if you have any questions - and please keep tuned as we are going to announcing more aspects to this event in the coming weeks!

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Bison Robotics is looking forward to the oppurtunity to help at Jumpstart! The event is going to be awesome and I hope to see representation from teams all across MN (and ND).

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this looks very cool!!! teams 3275 and 3134 are planning to attend.
thank you

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How many teams do you have registered so far?

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We have 9 registered as of 10/30.

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This looks awesome - thank you for organizing it!

I'm bummed that my team is 2,000 miles away.

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As of 10/31 we have 12 teams representing 11 communities. They are as follows:

3023 - Stark Industries from Elk River
3026 - Orange Crush from Delano
3102 - T.N.T. from Nevis
3134 - Accelerators from Cass Lake-Bena
3275 - Regulators from Cass Lake-Bena
3840 - Teens 'Nto Technology from Isanti
4238 - Inferno from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
4607 - C.I.S. from Becker
4632 - Magic from Monticello
4818 - The Herd from West Fargo (ND)
5548 - Roboherd from Buffalo
5999 - (new Rookie team) from Milaca

-There are 224 registered attendees
-We are up to 10 sessions per round (22.4 attendees per round) and counting...
-Registration and Lunch is still FREE (thanks to SCSU and CMMA)!
-And there is so much more to announce as we hammer out the details... stay tuned!

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Any new news??

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We do have some new arrivals!

But before we get into that, Elk River (3023) will be hosting a FTC scrimmage for the teams attending. There will be a full FTC field set up so that students and the rest can come and watch what FTC robots can do!

Please note: Registration ends on Wednesday, November 18 - so get your team registered.

We have 14 teams registered with over 260 students attending!

Here is the most current list of teams attending:
1816 - Green Machine from Edina
3023 - Stark Industries from Elk River
3026 - Orange Crush from Delano
3102 - T.N.T. from Nevis
3134 - Accelerators from Cass Lake-Bena
3275 - Regulators from Cass Lake-Bena
3840 - Teens 'Nto Technology from Isanti
4238 - Inferno from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
4607 - C.I.S. from Becker
4632 - Magic from Monticello
4818 - The Herd from West Fargo (ND)
5548 - Roboherd from Buffalo
5638 - Eagle Eye Robotics from Lac qui Parle Valley
5999 - (new Rookie team) from Milaca

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Last call for team registration! Please register here.

We will be showcasing local FTC teams on a full field this day - so if your team has an FTC program, please PM me so I can send you the link for registration.

We are excited to have four Rookie teams at this event - and all of them will be at the Duluth Regionals - so this will be a great starting point for them!

The most current list of teams is this:
1816 - Green Machine from Edina
3023 - Stark Industries from Elk River
3026 - Orange Crush from Delano
3102 - T.N.T. from Nevis
3134 - Accelerators from Cass Lake-Bena
3275 - Regulators from Cass Lake-Bena
3840 - Teens 'Nto Technology from Isanti
4238 - Inferno from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
4607 - C.I.S. from Becker
4632 - Magic from Monticello
4818 - The Herd from West Fargo (ND)
5548 - Roboherd from Buffalo
5638 - Eagle Eye Robotics from Lac qui Parle Valley
5913 - Patriot Robotics from Pequot Lakes
5999 - Wolves from Milaca
6045 - SabreBots from Sartell

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I can't wait for this event - from everything i've heard, it's going to be amazing. You guys have put together everything a team could want from a training event!

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Presenters - please post any questions here so that we can answer them and all can see.

Thanks!

The most current list of teams:
1816 - Green Machine from Edina
3023 - Stark Industries from Elk River
3026 - Orange Crush from Delano
3102 - T.N.T. from Nevis
3134 - Accelerators from Cass Lake-Bena
3275 - Regulators from Cass Lake-Bena
3840 - Teens 'Nto Technology from Isanti
4238 - Inferno from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
4607 - C.I.S. from Becker
4632 - Magic from Monticello
4818 - The Herd from West Fargo (ND)
5548 - Roboherd from Buffalo
5638 - Eagle Eye Robotics from Lac qui Parle Valley
5913 - Patriot Robotics from Pequot Lakes (Rookie Team)
5999 - Wolves from Milaca (Rookie Team)
6045 - SabreBots from Sartell (Rookie Team)
6175 - Eagle Mania from Eden Valley-Watkins (Rookie Team)
6182 - Royals from Rogers (Rookie Team)

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Is there a plan to record Sessions? If not can we do some? We would be willing to share with everyone.

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Presenters have been asked to share their presentations so that they can be put online as resources. As for recording presentations I'm pretty sure that wasn't an idea that was being floated around. I really like the idea, but Chief Hedgehog has the final say on that (along with individual presenters obviously). I'm giving 3 different presentations and I would love for them to be recorded to be used as a resource for teams in the future.

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Hello Snoman,

We would love it if your team takes the lead on recording these sessions.

HOWEVER - please gain approval from each of the presenters before the session. Remember, a lot of work went into creating these presentations and should be looked at as intellectual property. When you do ask for permission, please also ask if it is permissible to share this information.

Thank you for your interest in this and we look forward to seeing you at JUMPSTART!

Registration is FINAL and we now are up to 20 teams with 6 Rookies!:
1816 - Green Machine from Edina
3023 - Stark Industries from Elk River
3026 - Orange Crush from Delano
3102 - T.N.T. from Nevis
3134 - Accelerators from Cass Lake-Bena
3275 - Regulators from Cass Lake-Bena
3840 - Teens 'Nto Technology from Isanti
4238 - Inferno from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
4607 - C.I.S. from Becker
4632 - Magic from Monticello
4818 - The Herd from West Fargo (ND)
5548 - Roboherd from Buffalo
5638 - Eagle Eye Robotics from Lac qui Parle Valley
5690 - Sub Zero Robotics from Esko
5929 - Raider Robots from Lake Park Audubon
5913 - Patriot Robotics from Pequot Lakes (Rookie Team)
5999 - Wolves from Milaca (Rookie Team)
6045 - SabreBots from Sartell (Rookie Team)
6175 - Eagle Mania from Eden Valley-Watkins (Rookie Team)
6182 - Royals from Rogers (Rookie Team)

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For those of you attending JUMPSTART and are here looking for maps (and those that are just curious...) please look here:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/ed...E.kPjBl-3PdHbM

On a side note, we intended JUMPSTART for teams in the Central MN area - around St Cloud. We expected to have 5-10 team attending with around 150 students.

Well, we are now at 20 teams from across MN (including ND - go FRC 4818!) and have over 360 students registered! Needless to say, we were a bit overwhelmed at the overall interest in this endeavor. We are incredibly excited for this event!

And for those of you wondering - this endeavor is a HUGE nod to GoFIRST and their Splash training that we attended for the previous three seasons. We wanted to do for Central MN what Splash does for the Metro area teams in MN.

A special thank you to MN FIRST, CMMA, Bison Robotics, and the CMNRH as well as to all the presenters and workers. And to our partner in SCSU - thank you so much for your help! None of this would have been possible without the foresight of Dr. Helgeson and his staff!

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CMMA = Central Minnesota Manufacturing Association
CMNRH = Centre Minnesota Robotics Hub
SCSU = St. Cloud State University

Sometimes in FIRST we get carried away with abbreviations.

With 360 kids and 20 different FRC teams Bison Robotics and our volunteers/presenters are incredibly excited. This event is going to be amazing, we have the oldest active MN FRC team in 1816 The Green Machine, as well as 6 of the newest teams. As presenters we'll do our best to cater to both crowds. From all of the presentations that I've reviewed, I can say that I think all parties will take away valuable information. Personally I can't wait for the food. SCSU has some of the best college food I've had (and I've had my fair share).

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Just over a day until JUMPSTART!

Here are the Training Sessions...

SESSIONS MAP

And then the map of SCSU and all the teams attending...

JUMPSTART Map

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Anyone have a list of items wanted/ needed for the parts exchange. Assuming that is still going on.

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Sorry sir, we decided to put that aside for this year due to lack of interest by teams.

I believe that since most of the teams are young (6 rookie teams, 2 second year teams, and 5 teams that are 3-4 years old) there just isn't enough 'available' items in most teams' stockpile.

We hope to have this option up and running next year as most of these teams are more established and understand what they need and what they can depart with.

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Today was absolutely amazing and seemed very helpful to everyone that was there.

Thanks to SCSU and CMMA for the use of your facilities and lunch. I would also like to recognise all of the presenters at Jumpstart. Great job! We couldn't have done it without you.

A special thanks goes to Chief Hedgehog for your endless push to get this going and to the entire 4607 team for their participation and work to get it done. Awesome job.