Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

We too got interviewed, and I must say, it looks impressive. There are two different types of groups they are focusing on it looks like...

a.) Schools who want to set up one (or more!) teams and then send those teams to regionals/nationals.

b.) Kids getting the kit for Christmas, then competing them in the park, like a mini competition.

From the looks of it, they want to attack the casual segment, along with the giant mega teams who can only have a few students work on the robot. Their idea is to have everyone building these bots. Imagine school wide tournaments!

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

Forget kids. I want one. I always thought that Radio Shack was moving away from educational materials when they got rid of all their electronics books. I guess they wanted to shift their line from a more technological point of view. (Boebot, basic stamp, robots)

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

6 students from team 88 were called upon... This guy came to us and said he needed 6 random team members so we got 3 guys and 3 girls... We went in this small room and he showed us the website... We were in a phone conference with 2 other guys (sounded like southern accents too)... It was sweet... They asked us like what we thought and like if it was easy to use and basically help them... It was awesome...

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/events...rent=0&cat=278

http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/events...rent=0&cat=278

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

Im confused. Is that the website you guys were shown or was that little confrence related to the Singapore competition.

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

So what does Singapore have to do with VEX? :confused: :confused:

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

I may just be really greedy, but arn't you supposed to get paid to do stuff like that? isn't this like product testing?
well... if it's for FIRST... :)

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

Hey did anyone notice on the vex robotics pages on First that one of the links on the sidebar says its for the 2002 registration page for lego league?

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

What does vex have to do with Singapore??
Absolutely nothing!!!!
:p :p

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

That is not the website they showed us... nothing like it at all..

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

I thought I would do a product search on the RadioShack website for vex, what I got was a redirect to the vex competition website.

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

I was just going to post this, but you beat me to it! :rolleyes:

Wishing I could be at Nats to see this VEX stuff, anyone willing to pay my way and attend class for me? :confused:

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

ok from what i know, FIRST is trying out a new type of competition, VEX

u would use the kit and build a robot (durr)

Team 1002 has joined this competition, why? because it sounds KOOL
I think it will be a cool thing, not to hard, but not to easy.

good luck to all the teams doing VEX and all FIRST teams

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

Sparky signed up too, hopefully we'll get it too.

*crosses fingers*

Re: Anybody seen this? FIRST - VEXrobotics?
 

Hmmm The F.I.R.S.T VEX Inovation (http://www.usfirst.org/Vex_Invite.htm) says when they say "No Cost" does that mean the kits and entry fee and all that are payed for???