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Whos going to the Sillicon Valley Regional?
I am! Wetzel ~~~~~~~~~ I got hotel reservations already. |
i am!
i wonder who wins for furthest traveled... :) |
I'll be there... if I wake up before 5pm each day
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I'm going to SVR and can't wait!
I can't wait to stay at the great "hotel" I am! |
Uh... I'll... uh.... be there... too...
Duh. :rolleyes: |
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PS. I'm not going ;) |
lol.... OOOH OOOH I M GOIN TOO!!!:rolleyes:
U San jose people, u've gotta show Ian, michael and I the hotspots;) |
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That oughta be fun. Until someone starts breaking things. Or until we want to actually buy something. |
I will be there...so will most of us tigerbolters!!! yeah! can't wait to see you all:D
ughh frys /me hates fry's customer service Cory |
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you guys, you must have mind reading equipment or something... :) |
Cory,
Fry's has customer service? |
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On a more serious note... yeah, I'm more than willing to try to show you New Yorkers around SJ and other nearby cities if we've got time. |
Team 991 from Phoenix will be there!
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After-all i am from NY :D |
254
Team 254 will be at SVR (of course)!
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Cory |
Dave?
Is Dave Lavery coming out this way too Wetzel?
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Team 840 will be there. Also, in San Jose, the Tech Museum might be of interest to out-of-towners interested in robotics. There's a nice iMax theater at least.
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I'm interested in two things, kids :)
Paramount's Great America and Six Flags Marine World :) |
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yea, i dunno how long we will have for attractions but we will have the nights...*achemm* hotspots *achemm*:rolleyes: |
I sit around, use my computer, and listen to music, at night. I'm not an interesting guy, though... You should hang out with Jon Lawton. :p
Great America sucks. Too many dumb teenagers wearing t-shirts with Che Guevara's face on them, just because they like the way RATM sounds. It disgusts me too much. I haven't been to Marine World in years. No comment. I generally dislike the whole amusement park atmosphere. Last time I was a Disney World, I had more fun timing how long it took custodial personell to clean up a batch of spilled popcorn than almost anything else. Oh, yeah, SVR will be fun. |
Re: Dave?
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Dave? I want to go see Laster and Quoth. ;) Oh, yeah, SVR will be fun. Wetzel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hopefully not JetBlue |
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Not sure about Laster, though. He seems to be a recluse. |
691 will be there, I'm still undecided...give me some reason guys.
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Cory |
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Its the oldest West coast regional, with some of the oldest California teams attending The Hawaiian teams will be there Meet the WRRF FIRST-a-holics, and find out what we are doing up here after the competition The party at GRT's headquarter afterward (we better have it again this year!) The silicon Valley regional is where some of the National Champions started at: 100, 232, 255 Some of the strongest rookie teams from last year will be there: 810, 814, 840, 852 I myself haven't decided if I should show up yet... We shall see... |
Ken:
You gave all those great reasons to show up to SVR, yet you aren't sure if you're going to come!? That's kind of undercutting our sales pitch, don't you think ;)? You better get your butt to SVR or Ken Krieger and I will have to drive up to Berkeley and kidnap you :D. |
Awww ... with all these great teams and people going, I wish I could go!
Unfortunately, I don't have the money to go, I can't go by myself (that whole being a minor thing) and I'll probably be at some other regional that weekend (I'm going to GLR and MR!!) Maybe Chelly and I will show up next year. We'll both be 18 by then ... ;) - Katie |
im going to be there... and also bringing The El Toro 6...
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K-I-S-S-I-N-G What would be a better date then a romantic weekend in scenic San Jose, with accomidataions at Hotel Gold? Wetzel ~~~~~~~~~~~~ H:\BT\10 Years In The Life (CD 1)\BT - 14 - Never Gonna Come Back Down (Single Edit).mp3 |
id be down for some lamb shishkababs Ken! (the Russian version)
Speaking of computer games... I better not! |
3hours until I leave for the airport.
Hurray! Wetzel |
hey :D
team 692 is going to be there..with our "precious" (the name of our bot) "One bot to rule them all!" quahahahaha only two more days :D we all cant wait..all we've been doing is making roses, roses, and more roses to give out can't wait to see everyone...should we have another fashion show...lol 2 more days...2 more days...2 more days... and unfortunately before we leave tomorrow we have a calc test..g2 study bye bye Hermione |
Does anyone have driving directions for getting to the event center? I have found campus directions, but would like to know how to get to the event center specifically.
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The event center is building 47, enter on the left-hand side. Park in building 30, the 7th street garage. Wetzel ~~~~~~~~~~~ And by Wetzel I mean Bill |
I am getting antsy.
Wetzel is here. Ken is here. Other people are soon to arrive... /me awaits tomorrow... |
/me arrives in San Jose tomorrow!
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Already in San Jose. ;)
WHOOHOO! S V R !!!! :D |
Awww, I wish I could be at SVR but I'll be there in spirit (literally...it's my writing on some of 691's spirit stuff). Good luck to all and get ready to feel the burn!!!!
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I can't go tomorrow! There's no girl chaperone going tomorrow so I can't go. This is so incredibly stupid. I'm a controller! They need me! It so sucks being the only girl. At least I'll be there friday and saturday...I'm not going to school tomorrow. :mad: :(
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We got the field assembled. Bins made.
See you all at 8am. Wetzel |
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hmmm well I dont have the no-ride issue any more. Now I have the Im going to be there way too early issue. See any of you early birds around 7:15-7:30.
Cory |
*wonders how Spicy and the rest of the team is doing*
*wishes she could have been there today* *can't wait to be there tomorrow* |
I am here at SVR and accesing Chiefdelphi from the wireless access here:D
Yeap this is great.. the practice round have been great though there are only few because of the number of teams. We also have a pratice ramp here which has been helpfull for many teams. I will be updating more over here http://www.mvrt.com/html/comp.php ~ Competition Blogs:) More later! ~ Akshay |
Wireless? We were looking for an internet connection today. Is it in your pit area?
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Yea there is wireless here.. Come to 115 pit area an ill tell ya how to hook it up! Look fro me with a blue visor:)
~ Akshay |
hmmm wireless internet access...why was this not publicized? We could of solved so many issues today if we knew there was internet access...Oh well, very cool.
/me will be finding out how to connect tommorow first thing. Cory |
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I just uploaded around a 100 pictures on to our site! So check it out!
For some reasons my thumbanails are not working ill try to fix this proble asap. http://www.mvrt.org/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=32 ~ Akshay |
http://www2.usfirst.org/2003comp/eve.../teamrank.html
Just finnished for the day, standings are up to date. 77 matches, cotton eye joe dance. Award time, and will edit with who wins what. Imagery: 192 Gunn High School & PARC Palo Alto, CA Leadership In Control: 258 Applied MAterials/Evans Precision Maching, Inc & Lincoln High School San Jose, CA Xerox Creativity: 115 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Intel/Hitachi Data Syatems & Monta Vista High School Cupertino, CA Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology": 368 NASA Ames Research Center/Hawaiian Electric Company (HECo)/Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation/RHT Enterprise & McKinley High School Honolulu, HI DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit:1072 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Apogee Software, Inc./Sandhill Challenge & The Harker School San Jose, CA Judges Award: 814 Gilmore Foundation & New Technology High School Napa, CA Rookie All-Star: 1043 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/NASA Ames Research Center & Kehillah Jewish High School |
The mataches was awesome and the teams looked great. We are very happy to see our mentored team 1043 Kehillah Jewish High School win the Rookie all star award and 1072 Harker Robotics Team winning the Daimler Chrysler Team Spirit award.
1072 also won the Rookie all Star award at the Sacramento Regional... This is just awesome.. seeing both our mentored teams win the rookie all star award. Today was also a great day for us.. we ran really well and we even stole a stack from the opponent and created a 3 multiplier. WE got it on video this is great. Video will be uploaded from regionals tomorrow. Cant wait till tomorrow... more pictures from today are online check em out.. ~ Akshay |
254+115+852 win
359+368+814 runners up Cory |
SVR Saturday Awards
Volunteer of the Year: Ken Leung and Ken Krieger
Web Site Award: 115 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Intel/Hitachi Data Systems & Monta Vista High School Autodest Visualization Award: 1st: 192 Gunn High School & PARC 2nd: 3rd: General Motors Industrial Award: 192 Gunn High School & PARC Motorola Quality Award: 649 Saratoga High School Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship Award: 254 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/NASA Ames Research Center/Unity Care Group & Bellarmine College Preparatory Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award: 492 NASA & International School Judges Award: 1031 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & John O'Connell High School Rookie All Star Award: 1097 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & Jesuit High School Regional Finalist: 368 Applied Materials/Evans Precision Machining, Inc. & Lincoln High School 359 Naval Sea Systems Command Detachment Pacific/Hawaii Directorate of Public Works/McInerny Foundation/IP Engineering/Bishop Museum/Castle and Cooke & Waialua High School 814 Gilmore Foundation & New Technology High School Regional Winner: 115 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Intel/Hitachi Data Systems & Monta Vista High School 254 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/NASA Ames Research Center/Unity Care Group & Bellarmine College Preparatory 852 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/NASA Ames Research Center & The Athenian School Engineering Inspiration Award: 374 SAME/AeroTwin & Chugiak & East Anchorage HS Regional Chairman's Award: 359 Naval Sea Systems Command Detachment Pacific/Hawaii Directorate of Public Works/McInerny Foundation/IP Engineering/Bishop Museum/Castle and Cooke & Waialua High School On another note WRRF sponsored Digitizing of ALL the matches in Mpeg2 format. It took up over 80 gigs. If you are intrested in a certain match PM me. Keep in mind each match is around 150 megs. All of intrested teams who attended the silicone valley regional will recive thier matches on CD's by request. ALL others are on case by case basis. |
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Just wanted to correct post with the following:
368 - NASA Ames Research Center/Hawaiian Electric Company (HECo)/Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation/RHT Enterprise & McKinley High School |
Don't forget DaimlerChrysler Spirit ;)
KPCB/Apogee Software, Inc./The SandHill Challenge/The Harker School - Team 1072, HRT |
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Oh man, those guys were so awesome, and so nice. They gave this ziploc bag full of little flowers. lol. We were 38th and they picked us, 1st and 3rd, picking us. I was one of the controllers for the last match and I cannot tell you how nervous I was. In that match we won, but unfortunately we had lost the match before. But that's just awesome. The Megaforce Squadron beat the Cheesy Poofs. I very much didn't expect us to get that far. We were broken all day Friday. All day long our arm wasn't working and in the last matches of the day our left side was cutting out. But we got that fixed by our first match Saturday. Jeez, I was happy just having the Judge's Choice Award. :D I don't know what else to day, SVR was the greatest. Hey Aonic, I saw you there...You were checking out our bot so you coul plot against us, er, I mean strategise in the finals. =P |
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i am sorry if your team name is spelled wrong i got them off the FIRST site
Friday awards were posted by Wetzel |
Spelling a name wrong here is not that bad. FIRST spelled Gunn's name wrong at SVR. We all felt embarassed for them after we stopped laughing.
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Just updated the site with all the pictures... i took 450+ pictures at SVR :D
http://www.mvrt.org/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=27 Enjoy! ~ Akshay Dodeja |
Thanks Team 814 for the nice comments. We pride ourselves for the way we show our "Aloha" spirit. In general, this is the way we treat each other in the states. Someday, we would love to have a regional here.
As for the SVR competition, I wasn't able to attend. I only found out of the results from this forum and the FIRST site. I am very anxious for the team to come back and fill me in on the details. They are traveling to Seattle for the Pacific Northwest Regional. Congratulations to Teams 115, 254 and 852 for winning the regional. Monta Vista is always very consistent in their showings at the regionals year after year. I always like to see their robot because it is always interesting to learn about their approach to solving each year's Challenge. Cheesy Poofs first mentored our team four years ago. We still feel appreciative to them for coming to Hawaii and telling us about FIRST and their program. P.S. Dima: No apology needed for the wrong team name. |
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The poofs went to hawaii and mentored another team? Sign ME up! |
I think this year's SVR was the best FIRST event I have vere attended, and that includes the 2000 Nationals. I am extremely proud of the team 1043 rookies I mentored, grateful to team 115 who were such generous mentors, Heck they built a field of play for us!
I also have tremendous admiration for the engineering wizardy of GRT - there machine was a work of art, and am in awe of the Poofs - despite the fact everything possible went wrong for them during the qualifyiers from broken cahines to bad servos to the wrong codes, and disabled allies, they persisted and finished strong. We had at least 4 rookies at SVR and they all did very well. There are many teams I don't have time to thank, but from #1 to #46 - Thank you all for your hard work, and thanks to the volunteers, mentors, sponsors and the FIRST organziation for making it all possibe. --- |
mentoring
Four years ago, a few members of the Cheesy Poofs flew to Hawaii and Alaska to start the first FIRST teams in those states. There are now 6 Hawaiian teams and 6 Alaskan Teams. This year we mentored 1045 (MSJRT) and 1120 (Milpitas). Both did really well, and their autonomous programs were awesome, but were not selected for the playoffs.
Also, we were proud to see 359 (one of the Hawaiian teams) take home the Chairman's Award and 374 (one of the Alaskan teams) win the Engineering Inspiration Award. |
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Good luck to you and your team in Seattle! I'm sure they'll do awesome. |
Who knows, seeing that us Hawaii teams were able to place all in the top 10 in San Jose, maybe it won't be to long before we get our own little Regionals. :)
Also congrats to 254, 115, 852 for doing such a great job. Oh and a special thanks to 254 for helping us get the our highest score of 252 in our last match so we could take 9th in the competition. Sorry one more... Thank you very much 258 and 840 for being such great teams. |
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i dunno... we were desperate. sides, one of our team members ::COUGH:: was negligent in their scouting assignment. I was looking for weaknesses, and frankly, i couldn't find any... haha. well constructed bot! :) |
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Wow, thanks! :D |
dude im slow
i just noticed that the team i scouted thoroughly was our alliance (the athenian school) .... how interesting
let all go river dancing |
i did as a volenteer
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Wetzel ~~~~~~~~ I am teh Winner |
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