Pre-Shipdate UTC Scrimmage
 

Team 176 Aces High will host its annual pre-competition scrimmage on Saturday, February 17, 2007. As in the past, we will be using the official FIRST playing field for the 2007 competition season. The event will be held at Suffield High School on Sheldon Street in Suffield from 8:00-4:00. Registration fee is $75 in advance and $100 at the door. Please note that team will be able to pre-order pizza's for lunch.
For additional information please check the ACES HIGH website at:
http://aceshigh176.org/drupal/node/113

Or contact Arlene Willett, co-chairman at saw869@cox.net with questions or intent to attend.

Attention FIRST LEGO LEAGUE teams. As an added dimension to this years fun, the Suffield LEGO League teams would like to invite other teams for a post-season scrimmage. This is a free event and all teams are welcome. Please contact Kim Congden at congden@cox.net with your intent to participate or for further information. http://"http://bionicbulldogs.google...com/scrimmage"

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Wow, how many of the 9 years have been at Suffield?

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I think its been there since 2002. I remember my first year (2000) it was in farmington, and in 2001 it was BUZZ that provided a space.

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I will strongly suggest to any of the local (and I use that term loosely) teams attend this event. As many of the veteran teams know it is an excellent event even without a fully functional robot, or even no robot at all. This scrimmage will give rookies or new team members an idea of how an event runs and what a formal competition is like. It is also extremely beneficial to see how the game is played and it lets you view some of the kinks or oversights you had about this year’s game. Aces High has done an excellent job in years past putting on a well organized and executed event. (Very worth the long drive across the state.) So even if you aren’t competing I strongly encourage everyone to attend.

I Hope To See You All there!

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If there is any interest in holding a NEMO workshop on any non-technical topic (teambuilding, fundraising, mentor recruitment and retention, team organization, etc.) please contact me and I will check with the scrimmage organizers to see if we can get a room to meet in.

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With some advance notice we can get a room.

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Are there plans for a webcast? It's always fun to see the game play out.

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This is a very good event, last year we found a couple things on the bot that needed a little work done. It's much better to find out early so you can have time to fix it, than later.

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There have been attempts in the past, but I don't think we have done a webcast yet. I will bring it up at our meeting and find out if we can try this year.

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In past years we have worked with the Gael Hawks team 230 to do the webcast. However, I haven't been able to contact them for this years event.

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Yes we plan to do this again this year. We will send out a link when we get closer to the event.

We've webcasted this for probably four or five years now. There were firewall issues in year 1 but with a little push and less pull, we get through that now!

Hope you all enjoy, it is usually our test run for the UTC- New England Regional webcast.

Good luck to everyone this year!!!

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Thanks!

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Check out the Winter Warzone Information Page

There are currently 15 teams signed up including all three of the UTC Regional Champs from last season.

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How many spots are there for teams at the event?

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Are there any easy ways to get to the school other than driving, ie Bus terminal or Amtrak, I would like to make it down and see what is going on but I am not sure what the easiest way to get there is.