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It seems to me that you are mssing teams 236 from Old Lyme and 521 from Waterford..... :cool: Other than that it looks pretty good

P.S. what are those arrows for between towns?

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I wonder if some one's written a program to do this...

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i think im gonna rasterbate this

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Holy Cow! There are way more teams in Connecticut than I thought. It looks like someone drove down a freeway and recruited everyone in their path. Maricopa County (Phoenix metro area) alone is twice Connecticut's size, but we have less than half of the number of teams. That's insane.

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It does, doesn't it?

What's so special about #558? And how about the thing above 500?

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It helps when FIRST was founded in New England and that CT has one of the highest population densities in the country (I think)

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i always knew CT had a lot of teams, but wow.
Also, 173 should cover like 3 towns, lol but that's ok:D we're fine since our main meeting place is EH

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Yeah 1071 is like almost like 173, we cover mostly (like 98% of team) from wolcott HS but has kids from Kaynor Tech (waterbury) and Bristol TEC (Bristol)too.. Team 228 I think has like 3 or 4 schools part of them too.

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Depends on where you live....(see signature) ;)

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i would make a map for NY but there are 77 teams and a lot more ocming just from Rochester for the RochesterRegional next year

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i think thats whats left of team 521 and 236

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I love how my town is wedged right between team 38 and 237! It's like a FIRST sandwich :cool:

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Wow. Nice.

<scrambles to make a Michigan one>

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well my team is the center of a FIRST circle.. right in the middle of 999, 1071, 228, 155, and 178.

but there is an opening above us.. (ponders ideas)

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WHEN will we be seeing a florida map?

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More than likely, as soon as you upload one Ty...

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Your idea was probably already pondered and shot down... Bristol TEC was supposed to close that gap over 195, but they didn't have the money or something, I guess they're doing something with the other 17 Tech schools instead of robotics, and their students will continue working with other teams instead.

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Sorry, 236 and 521 did get chopped off on accident. I uploaded a fixed one.

I also took an educated guess for 716. They're officially from Falls Village, but it's not on the map. The logo should be in the general area though. If it's wrong, let me know and I'll fix it.

And, yes. most teams are either right off I-84 or I-91. And the teams on the coast are near I-95.

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opps my bad posted twice :ahh:

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I might do one for Ohio if I get bored tonight. Unless someone else from Ohio wants to do it...... :)

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someone should make a national vecctor based map, that shows all of the teams in the us. In the meantime, a separate gallery category would help.

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I like how CT has most of the 170 series numbers......173, 175, 176, 177, and 178. There are more teams here in CT than I previously thought. :)
Now if we could get another team up near Norfolk or Colebrook we could have the northwest corner taken care of. The problem is these towns have more farm animals than people! :p

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thats funny, i always thought watertown had more cows than people..

according to the shaw brothers that is

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As was explained to me, in times long ago in FIRST, the teams were numbered by their main sponsor in alphabetical order.

All those #170 something teams that you mentioned have UTC as a sponsor.

Juust like almost all of the #40 something teams have (had) Delphi as a sponsor.

There's a bit of FIRST history for you!

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I heard awhile back that a few students from Oliver Wolcott Tech in Torrington were interested in FIRST. I think the problem was the key phrase "a few students". There wasn't enough students interested to make it a reality although if they had put thier minds and effort to it it might have happened. In case you're curious I heard this from someone who had graduated from Oliver Wolcott.

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We had kids from Kaynor Tech on the team for a while there as well, till our dumb school board said that we could not have students on the team from other schools - totally going against the beliefs of FIRST and our team for the expansion of exposure to FIRST and thus science and technology. :sigh:
The Kaynor Tech students (now grads) still stop by once in a while and help out where they can.

Just think how RAGE (or other multiple school based teams) would look like if their school's administration was as closed minded as ours. :rolleyes:

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RAGE is CONSTANTLY apprising our primary school boards of our accomplishments and coming before the school board meetings several times a year so they are aware of what a great program FIRST is. The school and town administrators of all our 5 high schools receive frequent e-mails and monthly newsletters from us. We encourage them to visit our practice facility and be sure to point out that our primary strength is in our diversity and ability to be teammates on the FIRST playing field, while being rivals on the sports fields. We are able to have a practice facility in East Hartford and our "build" and CNC facility reside in Rockville, with students traveling to each. We recognize that we are fortunate to have this arrangement and work hard to keep it going.

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Yeah actually 237 is how I got into robotics. We did a reasearch project at Kaynor Tech on the Web, then I found Utitec does/did sposnor you guys (I work for them).. We had a small group of like 4 kids who we're interested in team 237 (all out of town students), but your board of education made the decison that we couldn't join (unless Kaynor paid some of the insurance, and that's just not realistic out of our school, we can't even afford to keep all our best and highest paid teachers). The Kaynor students who were interested do understand that the decison was made by above your advisors and it's not directly your team's call.

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For some reason, this image is not displaying properly...its the only image i've ever seen malfunction on this computer...
(All i get is red x in white circle)

EDIT: I got it to work, and it looks great! I really don't have a very good mental map of CT,so I got to see where some of these people I talk to actually come from. Also, what Elgin said about the teams being alphabetically ordered by sponsor was correct, but I'll add a bit. Only the first 191 teams are done like this. Team numbers were randomly assigned until the 1998 season when the teams were given static numbers based on sponsor alphabetically. Team one had a sponsor of 3D systems, and 191 had/has Xerox. Based on our website,their were random team numbers for one year, in 97. Ours was 59. One day I was walking through the shop when I see this monocaulk (spelling) arm in the corner, which has a big 59 on it. I'm not sure as to why it was there. After that,they assigned team numbers randomly (except perhaps by date of joining the program.

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awwww, look at 236, 521, and 500 together in the corner!!!! we're bestest buddies!

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I got the image from here:
http://babbage.clarku.edu/~djoyce/ge...conntowns.html

It seems the arrows point back to the 'parent towns'. Isn't that cute? The towns had babies!
It's referring to which towns were created first and who created, well, rookie towns.

Map for tomarrow: New Hampshire, I'm claiming it now.

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Team 716 is Region 1, basically the northwest corner from Canaan to Kent. Norfolk and Colebrook are in Region 7 with New Hartford and Barkhamsted. I have been talking to different schools and Gilbert (Winsted) and Litchfield are interested in starting teams. Not much industry up here so fundraising is full time!

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<tangent>
I secretly hope that fundraising is a full time effort for all teams, whether they have big industrial corporate sponsors (NASA, Delphi, GM) or not.

I think that fundraising is a key ingredient in a team's development and growth, and hope that the teams with large corporate sponsorships are not just "handed everything on a silver platter" so to speak.

I know personally with our team, we have a wonderful main sponsor that has been with us for all 6 years of the teams existence, and they help out in any way they can, and we are greatful.
But I think that having the team members having to go through the process of applying for grants, and writing to new sponsors and even holding fundraising events like car washes, and ziti dinners is key to the team's togetherness and it's success.

But.. this topic is for another post all together.
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In regards to the questions about 716, Falls Village is the other name for Canaan. I suppose we should state that huh? And, if you want to get really technical... we are a combination of a bunch of towns... North Canaan, Canaan, Sharon, Kent, Cornwall, and Lakeville/Salisbury. Haha! Have fun covering that! ;)