Starting a team in Milwaukee
 

For those of you who were at the national competition and already talked to me about stating my own team, I will be asking for your assistance in the month coming up.

For the rest, I am going to be a freshman at Milwaukee School of Engineering this fall and I'm trying to start a team in the area. Currently there are only two students (including myself) who are going to MSOE and want to be part of the team. I've talked to the school and they are fully behind me if I can find more students and finish all the starting leg-work. I still need a lot of contacts and resouces, so if anyone knows any of the following... it would be greatly appreciated if you could post something.
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*Anyone that is going to MSOE and would be interested in joining a FIRST team. Or even anyone going to a university in Milwaukee (MSOE preferred).

*Contact information for any company (for partnership, for materials, for donations, etc. ) in Milwaukee or the Milwaukee area.

*Contact information for any high schools in Milwaukee.

*Or any helpful hints on starting your own college partnership team.

Thank you,
Lauren Halatek

PS: You may also send me e-mail at lauren_halatek@yahoo.com


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Congradulations and Good Luck
 

Wow, good to see all that hard work may have paid off.

I heard a rumor that this team has representation from WildStang and Beatty (watch out).


Lauren,
Remember, if there is any way in which I can help out just let me know.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

The second member of this up-and-coming team is myself. As Lauren already stated, any and all info that can help is very much appreciated. You may also contact me if you have any, but try to get in touch with her first (at least for the next month). I will pass on any information that I recieve though. My e-mail is robo_hottie@hotmail.com

Thanks to everyone!

Kevin Kolodziej

OOooo... another Wisconsin team!

I will be going to UW Milwaukee. I would be very, very interested in helping out mentor your team.

I was our last years only programmer/electrical helper.

Jeremy Nadke
nadke@tds.net

Lauren,
Great to hear you're getting something going in WI. I lived most of my life in WI (37 years). My brother is a graduate of MSOE. I now live in SC and am an engineer on Team 343 Metal in Motion. How far are you from Racine? I have a nephew who would probably be interested (son of the MSOE grad). Also if there is anything I or MiM can do to help let me/us know.

Good luck!

Gene

What I meant to say above was that I was the only programmer but I helped in electrical, for those who may have read it the wrong way *cough*.

But anyways... I was down in Milwaukee the other day to pick out my schedule... I have 4 classes / 15 credits total for the semester.

Wednesdays I have one class... 3:30 - 5:20 (Calc & Analytic Geom combined). So I have time off for other stuff (when I'm not doing homework).

Fridays I have no classes at all, so there is plenty of time to help out. I may get a part time job to pay for expenses, so I'll have to wait and see how much spare time I actually have...

Could anyone name all the college team...so far. Thanks for the help.

good question...
 

Good question - I actually asked that number a while ago, but didn't get a good response - if you get a number, send it my way would you?

I tried to go through the program and count - I think I came up with a number on the order of 100-200. But... that was just teams with a college in their name - that's not a good indication of what the college did. I was looking for teams that are run just by college students -that number I think is much smaller (I'm going to guess 30). I can really only think of a few off the top of my head:
purdue
ohio state (2 teams!)
georgia tech
wpi
rit
michigan tech (mtu)

ok, I ran out already. I know there are more (clarkson??, and one in NYC - something with 'poly' in the name....). And help?

Thank you Erik. You're e-mails are also very helpful. I just got done with a meeting with the electeical department and they are behide me. They're willing to supply techincal support, possibly work space and lab space. Other then getting more college students to join, I have everything I need to start the process of starting this club.

Next, I will need to start contacting the companies to start setting up meetings about join up with us. This will be more difficult for me due to my lack of experience in corporate bussiness. If you have any suggests on the way about presenting FIRST that will be more appealing to them, please let me know.

:)

team 930 from Mukwonago Wisconsin (30 min. from Milw.) has older siblings that go to MSOE
If you have any questions or want help during the season go to our web site www.team930.com and post
questions there
we would be happy to help:)

Partners for CDI
 

Attention all Wisconsin teams: if I get a team togather for CDI, would anyone be willing to take us in as a (so far) “non-first team”? If anyone may be interested at all, please contact me at halatekl@msoe.edu or post a reply. Thank you.

Hey Lauren-

Our team might be interested, we are having a meeting in the next couple weeks to get things going again, drop me a line at falco061@earthlink.net

Hey check this out:

http://home.xnet.com/~door4/mft/

it's a start. :)

We hope to see all of you at this years competition!
 

Hey everyone,

Things are starting to move fast here at a MSOE. There is a lot of interest coming in from all over the campus and community. We are having our first meeting this Monday and will be presenting the 2002 Wildstang Robot on Thursday the 12th at the president’s picnic. If anyone is in the Milwaukee area, please stop by and visit. The picnic will be located on State St and Milwaukee Ave. Things will start at 3 and go until 7 in the evening. We hope there will be a big turn out. :)

Uggh... that sucks... I have Chemistry Discussion/Lecture from 4:30 until 6:45 at night...

Well, I hope it goes well. Good to hear that things are coming along nicely.

As a member from a Wisconsin team, I'm glad that there is interest in starting another in our state. I hope it works out for you

Clarkson U has a college team!
 

Hey,
Good luck, if you need any help/info on how we run things up here, just drop me an email.

~JVN
Team Leader
Clarkson University
FIRST Robotics - Team 229

We are offical now!
 

We were hoping for 1171 or 1071 or 1111 to be with our parents from 111 or 71, but hopefully the Gila Monsters will be good family for us. You can e-mail either one of us at halatekl@msoe.edu or kolodzik@msoe.edu.

Lauren (former Wildstanger) and Kevin (former Team Hammondite) (but now we are Milwaukeans - not official name!)



PS We are looking for suggestions for a team name.

Bot Name: Barley Bot :D

Team Name: If only you had Miller sponsorship...

j/k of course

Re: We are offical now!
 

Well... MSOE is the Raiders so you could go with RoboRaider Robotics or Raider Robotics...

maybe just be known as Triple R or copy off of truck town and do R to the third

future MSOE??
 

Hey D.J., are you still coming here next year??? We need more veterans...we should call ourselves "The Amalgamation" because of the teams that will be represented within the next few years.

Do you (or anyone else for that matter) know of anyone else that will be coming to MSOE next year, or within the next couple years??

Thanks!

Kev & Lauren

I got my acceptance letter into MSOE in the last week of October....

I think my dad sent out my money to hold my spot, if not ill do that ASAP, but yes if all goes well i'll be at MSOE next fall.

Hehe... I'm not sure where I'll be next year...

If all goes well, I'm hoping to transfer to UW Madison for their superior physics program...

But if that doesn't work out then I'm stuck here. I guess I'll have a new party buddy :D

On Wisconsin!
 

As a UWM Alumni and former Wisconsin resident, nice to see it happening in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. I would like to see Marquette, UWM and Madison mentoring some teams.

There are plenty of companies, I'm sure, that would be willing to sponsor FIRST teams in Wisconsin. Particularly auto parts suppliers and manufacturers. It's a matter of exposure.

Someday, there will be a regional in Wisconsin, giving me an excuse to come back and visit.

According to the FIRST team list, there's Team #1054 MSOE sponsoring South Milwaukee.

Shorewood High Alumni '77
UWM Alumni, Computer Science '82
Still a Packer Fan! Go Pack, Go!
Anybody in Michigan play Sheepshead (they play Euchre around here)?

Re: On Wisconsin!
 

Hey, Euchre is great! Everyone in my family plays Euchre (Yes, we are all from Michigan) :)

Anyway, back to the subject ...

We almost doubled the number of Wisconsin teams this year! That's awesome! Hopefully, next year will be the same way :)

- Katie

kev already knows me, but just so you guys know ill help you in any way i can. just let me know. it will be nice to see MSOE involved. hope to see you guys soon!!

pm me if you need any help doing anything with web design or anything like that.

also let me know when you get a web site up and going and i will be sure to put a link to it on the team hammond site!!

Re: On Wisconsin!
 

Ummm, according to the list I have, its 1064....

Just a clarification :)

I'm part of a small group that helps mentors teams. The webpage is at www.inspirationinc.org. Check it out. Any questions you can email me at lmachadoiv@inspirationinc.org. I have a number of people that help out that are really good at a variety of things. Talk to ya later.

Thank you to everyone, we appreciate you guys watching over us. Our team name is Wild Beast, combining our ancestors’ team names WILDstang and The BEAST. We might be going with a Wildebeest theme.

D.J.-our robot name was going to be “Schrodinger's Cat” (it’s a theorem/experiment, :confused: I believe) this would incorporate for your team, but “Maxwell’s Demon” (another theorem type, most EE’s at least heard of Maxwell) had won for this year.

Anyway, our motto is: B.R.E.W (Better Robots Engineered Wisely)
We had some Wisconsin themes going, but we might save the other if we start more teams in the following years.

Team 1064, Wild Beast would like to wish everyone good luck this season.