2005 Rochester Regional @ R.I.T
 

Just wanted to know how many teams would be willing to come to Rochester for a Regional in 2005? this would help in planning something like this! Thanks in Advance!

Ellery
Team Leader - #191 Xerox/Wilson X-CATS
Team Adviser - #1126 Xerox/Webster SparX
Probable Volunteer - Rochester Regional planning Committee

Of course we would. We're 2 hours away and we have two veteran members @ RIT right now.

I wanted to vote: "Yes, we're hosting the regional."

Matt

Clarkson University 229 will be there.
We're talking about whether we'd rather compete, or volunteer to help out.

(Is it too early to ask if you need a head-ref? ;) )

But we will definitely be there! Gotta support an upstate NY regional!

mmmmmmmmmmmm
FIRST and Nick Tahoe's. It just doesn't get any better than that!!! :D
It's been way too long since I've had a garbage plate!

Well since RIT is going through all this trouble, I guess we can make the long trip from Fairport NY. We'll probabally have to get a school bus or car pool or something - ten miles is too far to walk!

Oh and before I forget:

WHOO HOOOOO!


WHOO RAH!

[im almost done]



WAY TO GO!!!



[ok, im done for now] :c)

ahhh,
nothing like a empire hots garbage plate or bay hots garbage plate....mmmmm double cheese burg plate i want one now

Although I'd prefer Syracuse, Rochester's a great spot for a regional 8^)

Yeah, I guess we will go too. Ken was right, 10 miles is too far to walk. Maybe we should charter a bus or something?

Oh and YEAH for Rochester!!!!

With all the fun we're having at meetings setting his thing up I figure we might as well show up. What I would like to know is, are the other upstate NY teams planning on attending. You know, Lockport, Syracuse, Ithaca and the others. Also, are any of you interested in helping us start up some more new Upstate teams. If you are I'll do some leg work if you can get me some contacts. BTW, Chad it's nice to see you in here snooping around.

Definately; if only we had the money.:(

Yes! I am quite sure team 639 here in Ithaca would be willing to come.

By the way, Ithaca NY is named after the greek town, Ithaki, which is on the island of Ithaka... maybe that's where the extra I came from? You know, Odysseus was the king of this island. We've got a statue of Herakles, too, who was on Ithaka.

- Patrick

Ewe no, in for years of posting hear on cheifdelphi eye have had very few spelling errors and have tried to never correct somebody on there mistakes. In won e-mail eye misspelled a word bye placing an eye where an eh belonged & eye got chastised by three people four it. Eye am sorry for the insult, it was not intentional. Eye do greatly appreciate everyone pointing out the mistake. Thanks.

BTW. I honestly liked the history lesson. I do enjoy finding out neat little facts about weird stuff.

Now can we please get back to the point at hand. Making the Rochester Regional an Upstate NY regional… Yes people from Canada, and other states are welcome.

I was not insulted by the spelling mistake :) People do it all the time. I love random facts & tidbits of history. YES, anyway back to the topic on hand:

Us college students at Cornell were thinking of trying to start more than the one FIRST team (639) in the area. I think there are a number of schools in surrounding towns that would be interested in having teams. But I don't think Cornell will be willing to fund more than one (although we can try asking), so we will need to rely on NASA grants and local manufacturers and such for funding, hopefully they can find places to sponsor more long term. I'll try and encourage our college FIRST organization to get going on this... Although our hands are full right now, starting up & mentoring a new lego league team :D Hopefully we can get a rookie team or two to attend their first regional ever in Rochester 2005 :)

The problem around Central New York region I think is finding companies to sponsor. I know there are enough in Ithaca (which is a city, kind of) to sponsor our team. But I'm worried that in anywhere less populated, there is not enough economy (for lack of better words) to support teams. On the other hand, I think between the school districts and small companies, it may be possible. So anyway, I will take initiative in the Ithaca / Tompkins County area to try and get more teams started. Any other volunteers from other upstate NY regions?

Another idea: Why not start a regional robotics forum for Upstate NY area? We can start off just with a ChiefDelphi forum, and then maybe it can grow enough that we can have meetings one or two times a year. This would help foster ideas on how to start teams and keep them going in low-economy areas, provide support for those struggling, etc... Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Patrick

That's actually exactly what we are thinking as a group up here in Rochester. We are having regular meetings to help form new teams & get organized for the 2005 regional. I think the idea of using Cheifdelphi forums as a means for communications is a good idea to get started. It is a great place to gather larger groups of people from a wider area.

We are aware of the economic issues of the schools in rural areas. There will probably not be a NASA grant for the Rochester Regional because there is no NASA facility around here. We do have a group of people working on helping teams find funding & other resources. If you know of schools that would be interested please let me know I would be more than happy to help you get them started.

Thanks

NASA has an office of some sort in downtown Syracuse....doubtful but a possibility :)

You might get Lockheed Martin outta Syracuse (Salina really) to chip in, you never know....

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if your around the area too, we will have a exhibition may 15th with the other roschester teams, come and check it out. it will be at edison tech.

Message from Ron Borden
Finger Lakes Regional Planning Committee
Office (585) 338-6700
Pager (585) 452-4497
Email ron_borden@bausch.com

"All,

Your Team/schools are invited to participate in the 2004 Robot Exhibition on May 15, 2004 from 8:30 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. @ Edison Technical High School, 655 Colfax St. in Rochester. The Finger Lakes Regional Planning committee will sponsor the Robotic Exhibition. The exhibition will showcase the Robots that the area high school teams engineered for this year's competition. They will be competing using this year's rules and the playing field from FIRST.

Invited Guests include potential Finger Lakes Regional Sponsors, potential New School Teams, and potential New School Sponsors.

Teams will have a booth/pit area to showcase their robot and accomplishments. Set up will be from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Friday May 14th.

Teams arrive @ Edison Tech Saturday beginning at 7:00 A.M. Games start at 8:30 A.M. Followed by awards ceremony/reception. Tear down to be completed by 1:30 P.M.

Please RSVP your teams attendance to me by 4/30/04."

sounds like a lot of fun!! :p

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this is all just more of a reason to go to RIT for me :)

credits from PLTW, and now a FIRST regional?! RIT has got it going on.

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Hey, we've done a lot to get this far! <shameless plug> Come to RIT! We even have an official Student Government Recognized Club called RIT FIRST (I was the President for 2 years...just recently stepped down)! We only became Student Government Recognized in February but we've been a club recognized by the College of Engineering for a while. </shameless plug>

Okay, but seriously, we're working hard to get this thing going up here. I hope all of you can make it. Come look for me next year!

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We're going to have Krispy Kreme's for Breakfast and Pizza for lunch!

And some other snipits of information - We are using an official FIRST field for this. We are expecting media coverage. The Pres of Xerox, the CEO of Bausch & Lomb and the Pres of RIT are all expected to be in attendance and speaking. We will have judges and Ref's for the exhibition. We're hoping to show the video from the closing ceremonies at the Championships. All 8 Rochester teams will be there - 191, 211, 73, 578, 340, 1126, 1450, 1405.

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I see 3 current regional champions, 2 national division champions, 2 regional finalists, a former national champion, and the only two time Chairman's winner :)

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Hey joe,
That's 2 Championship Division Winners, not finalists but that's ok.

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and guys she responds well to pickup lines (or so i have heard) :D




also if YOU want to help with some ideas or sugestions for the regional please post in this thread.....http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=27528

A thought
 

It might be a good idea for some members of Rochester based teams to go to this(even if there are no Rochester teams competing at the event) and do some networking for the FInger Lakes Regional.Many of these teams are potential participants and should be reminded of the virtues of comming to Rochester.

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LETS GET THIS THING ROLIING AGAIN!!!

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The brand new Harris/Penfield team will be there!! Very convienent that our first year we only need to rent school buses for our first regional :)

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Dare I even ask what a Garbage Plate is? :o

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the ultimate in "late night dining"

2 cheese burger patties served on top of macaronni salad and hash browns

best if served covered with hotsause and mustard


you really have no idea untill you try one

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Yummy! This sounds tasty and challenging!
(gotta have one)

:rolleyes: Finger Lake Regional at RIT on March 5... 6 hours of driving from NYC... :rolleyes:
Why not!!!

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eww...mustard?! It's all abour covering it with ketchup! That's the stuff! It sounds pretty gross...but it's pretty good. My first garbage plate was with Matthew and Jeff (?) and Joseph (?) when I went up to visit years ago. So, I had my first garbage plate before I even came up to RIT.

Oh, and for any of you vegetarians...the cheeseburger patties are optional...you can get a veggie plate...but I'm not sure I'd trust it. :)

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We are looking forward to attending the Rochester Regional. It will be nice to have one so close.

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Our coaches said that hey were going to try and sign us up. But they haven't said anything yet.

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You'll have to wait until Oct 28th to sign up for a second regional. Right now there's only 9 spots left open! And if you take a look at the team list, there's an awful lot of low numbers! This is going to be quite a competition!!

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i know...this competition is going to be a hard one to win....

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you don't need a low number to have a good robot...

anyway it does look like some good competition, hopefully we can make it 3 for 3!

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If there is still a spot left when second regional regs. open up team 25 is planning on a trip to Rochester. We figure the Rochester teams have been to NJ so many times it is time to return the favor. We already have trip approval too.

It will be a fun season....

WC

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I don't think 36 is a hard fast number. We could probably go a little over it.

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YAY!!

I hope we put on a comprable party, um I mean competition. Throw in some hawaiian shirts and it'll definitely be a party!

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Aww, Alex, I didn't mean it that way. I meant that there's a lot of experience coming. What an amazing opportunity for the local rookies!

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Speaking of rookie is anyone going to get in contact with the new team in Napels(team 1551) ? They are actaully local and will probably need Rochester FIRST's help.

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Have a request into FIRST to get their contact information. Plus RIT is working on some seminars for the rookies. We're going to make sure we have the best darn rookies in the country!

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hahaha, yeah we should get some good old teams and hopefully make all these rookies beat all the old teams!! but not 1126, stay away from us rookies

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Cool!
I see Victor has signed on. That makes four local rookies. I hope we get more!

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Unfortunately I didn't get to the computer until 12:20 last week and we didn't get a spot. So we are on the waiting list- for whatever that may mean. At this point my team's entire season is the NJ Regional since all the regionals within reach of us are in the first few weeks of the season and all of them filled up immediately. It's kind of disheartening.

I guess the off season will have to suffice this year.... but we'll be out there- stronger than ever and ready to play.

WC

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Remember, every regional has spots reserved for late registering rookies. As it gets closer to December 3rd, those will open up if they haven't been taken yet. Be sure to keep checking for open spots at the other regionals. And, since you're probably near or at the top of the waiting list in Rochester, you should get a spot.

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Of course we'll keep watching but I'd rather see your team find some local schools to start new teams and take those spots.

Of course the Rochester teams could always make a return to NJ one more time......

WC

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wayne did you put team 25 on the waiting list..i know another team that has this site close to it's heart is already on there :D

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I think we're up to about 8 rookie teams in the area. We aren't really expecting any more at this point. I don't know if we'd be able to provide adequate assistance to many more teams anyway.

Matt

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I see FIRST just made 4 teams jump from the wait list to the Regional List. Can't wait to partner up with our 2003 J&J Alliance partners 25. Welcome. Who else has been moved?

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Sorry Rees-

I am afraid that when we were left hanging for so long we went and registered for South Carolina. Lets face it, the registration closed a week ago and, if the Rochester committee hadn't made the move today, we would have been left with nowhere to go. SC seemed happy to have us. So, with regret, I told FIRST today that we decliined the move off the waiting list. Obviously this procedure of having teams wait without word until after the registration period is not working.

So I guess we look to go north next year. If nothing else we'll see everyone in Atlanta.

WC

:cool:

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Well unfortunately some of that could have been avoided. I sent an email to FIRST a month ago to withdraw from the competition (we were registered for Rochester). I recieved a phone call yesterday asking where I wanted our KOP sent. So I had to resend the email asking to be taken off the list for Rochester.
Hopefully FIRST will be working out some of these kinks in the registration process.

-Kristin

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Hi Kristin
Sorry to hear you guys had to withdraw this year. Is there anything we can do to help you guys out for next year? Please let us know and we'll see what we can do.

Ellery

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hey all!! i cant wait for the regional(s) to begin :D . i suppose we should know the game first :p . it will be alot of fun for everyone. and i have already had my fill of garbage plates :cool: . (pass the tums please!!!!) till later.

peace

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I'm not sure that this was a Rochester move. We had been ready to open up those few extra slots for quite a while. I believe that it came from above to wait until December. I don't know what their reasoning was in this.

South Carolina sounds like a treat for the students. Enjoy!

If you wanted to come scout the first weekend of competition, we'd love to host you!

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This might be too late to ask, but what is the Itinerary for the Rochester rickoff?

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This is a copy of the e-mail we got today.
Not quite an itinerary but close enough.

Agenda:



Doors open approximately 9AM



Team registration in main lobby of museum. Team representatives only!



Light refreshments served in Eisenhart reception area. 9:15-10:00



Auditorium assignments:



Strassenburgh Planetarium Teams



1507

1511

1518

1551

1559

1567

1585

1591

1643



Bausch Auditorium (Museum Building) Teams



63

145

174

250

291

306

378

398

639

1450



Eisenhart Auditorium Teams



73

191

211

340

578

1126

1405



A portion of this year’s playing field will be available for viewing following the broadcast. Location to be announced!



Kit of Parts Pickup – following NASA broadcast



Maps available at RMSC



FIRST Seminars begin approximately 12:30PM



See you there!

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How were the teams divided into groups? It seems that the Strassenburgh Planetarium Teams are all rookie teams.

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I have no idea but yes all the rookies are in the Planetarium and most of the veteran Rochester teams are in Eisenhart (except for QX Robotix who's with you guys).
What Surpises me the most is 229 Division by Zero isn't going to make the trip.

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I thought the kick off went well. The field elements are a lot bigger than I initially thought seeing the in person than from looking at them on the screen during the broadcast.

Given the game I think it's going to be an interesting season and I can't wait to see what teams come up with this year.

See you all at the Rochester Regional. I'll be there with 1507. It's a rookie team but not all the members are rookies.

Good Luck to everyone.

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Well with the robots shipped and ready to roll it's time to fire this thread up again.
To the Finger Lakes Regional participants: how did the build season go?

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This season, we built the robot in CAD prior to construction. In the past, we never did a complete model. Although we felt like we were getting behind in the construction of the physical robot, the model proved to actually give us a little more time than expected. Things fit, drawings were exact, and we had little changes to adapt to.

Other than autonomous, our robot was first fully working on Saturday Feb 12. Since then, there have been much testing, practice, and refining of components in addition to making spare parts and taking off a little bit of weight (well, we can't be perfect).

We look forwards to showing off our robot in Rochester soon!

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well hopefully the snow storm gets away from us by wed. night!! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE

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make sure people stay away from Alex since he's carrying germs right now. :)
If someone has Nyquil hand it to him.

Ellery

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as far as i know there really is no cure for the FIRST bug

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639 will battle rain, snow, sleet, ice, falling tetras, and other robots to make the two hour drive on Rochester.

But seriously, I hope the weather doesn't deter any teams. Good luck to everyone travelling to a regional event. See you in four days.

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I just got finished up with the second stage dying my hair, ehh.. better than sometimes, worse than others... but all in all, its in the spirit of the competition! :D

I can't wait to get myself back into the full swing of competition! I've got a long three days ahead of me filled with classes, packing for not only the Rochester Regional, but also the Pittsburgh Regional and Spring Break. I leave Lehman Wednesday night for the drive home to catch the team bus bright and early Thursday morning!!!!!! :yikes:

Can't wait to see you all there! Good Luck!!! :]

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This will be my 1st of 6 followed by Pittsburgh, Detroit, Waterloo, GTR and Championships. I can't wait to get started. I sure hope the weather gets better cause coming from Toronto can be a bad drive in bad weather. Wishing everyone a great season and if you see me at an event say HI. I don't think that you could miss me if you tried. :D

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although coming from us, you may want to miss him, even if you dont want to try ;)

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Are you comming up to MC?

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I will be announcing. I believe that "The Voice of FIRST" will be the MC. For those that are not sure who that is, Blair was announcing the mock game at kick-off.

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Will any team or RIT group be broadcasting the regional as a webcast?

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I was in Rochester Last week and got a chance to check out the field house. Does anyone know where/what the pit setup will be/look like? :confused: Possibly like SBPLI last year?

Thanks,
JT
229

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I'm not sure what SBPLI looked like so I can't comment on that. I know that the built in seats will be used on one side of the field and bleachers will be brought in for the other half. The pit setup will be behind a curtain on one half of the field house. There will also be an internet "oasis" available. I can't comment on the exact pit setup.

Matt

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Thanks alot, that's pretty much how SBPLI was except the pits were behind the bleachers. I'll see everybody there and good luck.

Thanks again,
JT
229

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Does anyone know how many practice and qualifying matches there are? Can anyone tell me where this information is located? (I've looket at the agenda and RIT regional website)

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I've heard Koko saying around 15 QF matches! isn't that amazing. I'm guessing 4 to 8 practice matches. hope you have a fun time and good luck see ya soon!

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First does not give that info out until you arrive. The schedule for games you receive Friday.