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Please add Doug Miller to your list.
As I (Doug miller) Virtually sign this.

Good luck all in all!

~Doug

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Virtually signed,
Bharat Nain
Team 25 alumni mentor.

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Signed,
Anish Simhal
1123

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Signed,

Conor D. Ryan
Team 1403
Cougar Robotics

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Signed

Kevin Thorp
Animation Team Mentor
Team 342
Charleston, SC

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Add me to the list:

Salik Syed
team 701

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Signed, Steven Lam

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Don't they dare! We were going to enter for the first time ever!

Most definitely signed! on behalf of the following:

Polina Danilyuk
Nathan Keyes
Steven Lam
Theo Kunicki
Yon Zloof
Manav Nanda
Edward Kaplan
Jesse Weiman
Samuel Crisanto
Daryl Vulis
Nathan Bixler
Jay Walker
Tal Akabas
Joshua Budofsky
Steven Cao
Jena Cutie
Allan Dong
Joshua Hecht
Sarah Ketani
Jason Rassi
Harrison Wong
Dishen Yang
Danny Zhu
Joe Ricci
Ian Ferguson
Sonia Gollance
William Silversmith
Beth Goldstein
Paul Desiderio
Victor Liu
Amy Suen
Yi Li
Joanna Ma

of team 694

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Steven, to clarify, I see you are also in the 694 team list that Polina added but I'm listing you separately unless you say otherwise. The signature count is the same, you just won't be included in the team listing...
Jane

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Ack! And I had just gotten ahold of a legal copy of 3DSMax JUST to animate this year! Count me in.

Daniel Lin

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Our team wount be doing an animation but no reason to spoil it for the rest of people at the regionals.

signed, Chris Davidson

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The Steven Lam listed separately is the same Steven Lam as on my list. :)

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Signed from team 1947 - ISRAEL
Liron Gurvitz
Ofir Nagar
Daniel Bitener Zamir
Tom petrunin
Zvi Baratz
DAvid Mizrahi
Ofir Goldshmidt
Aviad Rotaro
Or Guetta
Aadrey Nazarov
Ori Dahari
Shahr Shpurer
Omri Cohen
Ofek Oren
Yarin Faygenboym
Snir Homeski
Yarden Homeski
TAl Berner
Andrey Deener
Anna Shuster

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Got it.:)

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You have mine too

Zachary Priddy
Team #698

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What's your count so far? and what's going on wiht it?

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We are just under 180 signatures, thank you everyone.
Can we use more, sure.

We are in process.

(If that sounds vague, it's because I'm asking for a little wiggle room.)

Thanks for everything, everyone.
Jane

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I'm not an animator, but you got to have respect for those guys!
put me down


Sam Couch
Team 330 -The Beach Bots

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Never did animation for FIRST, but count me in:
Eric Gobst

from team 599 - The RoboDox

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You can add me; my team never makes it to nationals :(

Christian Ortiz

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I sign on behalf of the entire team 25 animation team
Students
Morgan Gillespie
Antoine Dorsey
Dhananjay Thanikella
Rishi Tirumala
Nick Ramos
Shawn Ahmad
Kiran Aravapalli
Srigag Babu
Chris Mclean
Mike Bauer
Tina Ciance

Mentors
Mike Ciance
Mr Ciance

FYI
 

The letter has been mailed to FIRST.
Jane should be sending her copy to Autodesk.
Now we just have to wait and see.
We both thank you for your support of this effort.

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please add my name

James Bowers

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If the animation will be only for the Nationals then i will be really really sad...
This prize is guarnteed ours (our team), as i am the only Aniamtion Designer in the Israeli regional, wich makes the competition very very hard for us =]
I am trying to convince some other teams to make an Animation, hope it'll work...

BTW, do you all use 3D Studio Max for the animation, or anything else?

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as far as i know 3d s max is the only software you are allowed to use because the contest is sponsored by autodesk

I Sam Hillyer give my support and add my name to the list:)

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If you would like to add yourself, can you edit in your name?:)

Edit: Thank you.

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I have completely missed this thread until now. Team 1390/1604 together have had an animation every year since 2004. FIRST teams have been lucky to have Autodesk provide a competition for teams to animate and be motivated to compete as part of a team that has little to do with the actual robot. This is a skill that is able to be used in many areas, ranging from brining engineering ideas to life early in its conception, to recreating historical events digitally, to the advancing world of video game design. Here in Orlando, EA Games has recently moved their headquarters near the University of Central Florida and train students to hire right out of college. Having the ability to learn animation in high school is a wonderful opportunity for students aspiring to go to college and make a career with this skill. DeVry also has an animation track; learning this is college gives the students a jumpstart. However, not all teams have the ability to compete at the Championship in Atlanta. 1390 was able to make the trip last year, but has no plans to attend in the future due to budget issues. If there is no animation competition and award at the regional level, the teams that can not afford to attend in Atlanta will not be motivated to have an animation team. I hope this letter succeeds in its goal.

You have my signature
Barry Bohnsack, team 1390

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I'd just like to say that i dont really think ANYONE is going to be against this petition...and FIRST and AutoDesk must understand it..
Does anyone know WHY they have decided to change it suddenly?

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Thanks for continuing to add your signatures.:)

It would help right now to continue to allow this thread to be for signatures. If you would like to continue discussion regarding changes, etc - this is the thread that was started and could be used:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=50085

Please help us keep this thread open for signatures.

Thank you, Jane

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Sorry Jane I didn't get to this sooner, it's been a week and a half since I've been on here, but add me too.

Signed,
Jason Hartmann (Mentor, Team #237)

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You have my signature.

Janina Vaitkus, Team 1111

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If it's a matter of reducing their overhead or attempting to lighten a burden (manpower or financially) on Autodesk, I can see why they're doing it. However, I agree with everyone here that removing the regional award does decrease the likelihood that inexperienced animators will attempt to compete "with the big boys". Team 418 is one of those teams - we recently lost all our experienced animators to graduation last year (without being able to train a new generation), and new animators that have joined the team this year are starting from scratch. I can see our animators playing with the software if they're given a copy of it - as they already have with last year's software - but I don't see them trying to push the limits in a competitive atmosphere if they know they are doing it just for their own benefit, especially since there's no chance to win any kind of award.

You have my support and my signature (Danny Diaz), FWIW.

-Danny

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As long as it isn't too late:

Signed,
Christopher Corsi of Team 1293.

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If it was just merely a question of manpower I would recommend that they turn over judging to the animation students. The kids worked long and hard on the animations. They are more than qualified to judge what is worthy.

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It is fine to keep adding your signatures.
Jane

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Add me, Christopher Jelly, if it's not too late. Thanks.

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I agree to sign it.

-Julie Henion

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I'll sign it as well

Nate Edwards
Team 957

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Count my virtual signature in!!!

--Sarah Wittman, Team 1714

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Please add my signature to this list.
I, Mark Wahnish, sign this.

Let's just hope Autodesk listens.

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/virtual signature

Gary Forbes, Team 1726

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Virtual Signature, on the way!

kevin forbes, FRC 1726

I hope this helps!

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I, Jacob Becker, lead animator for team 114, sign my name too.

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I, Mark Hsu (FRC 192) sign.

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Signed on behalf of myself and team 422,

Alex Cuoghi

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Team 379 supports this,

Judy Barber
Team Advisor

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Signed

Brian Bunney
Tigertron Alumni

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Signed on behalf of Team 1732

Stephen Brown

Please add Sean Conley, Phil Reuss, John Shawger, and John Christiansen from 1732 as well.

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I, Ori Berger (team 192) sign this petition.

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signed,

Justin Hsu

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I, Dave Coveney, have been mentoring Team 250's animation team for 5
seasons now. I heartily endorse and sign this letter. Nice job folks!

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Evan Raitt of 1930 signs

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Todd Rosenblatt from Team 4 signs it too.

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A lot of our team does not have a chief delphi account, im speaking for all of them and saying we are all signing on


-eugene

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On behalf of the many teams I've mentored. We endorse this and sincerely hope that Autodesk and FIRST will make these very important awards available at the regional level.

PS. Any response or comment from FIRST yet?

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Thank you for asking. There has been no response as yet.
Jane

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i sign it too

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Pavan Dave
FRC118

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Count me in.


Peter

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count me in.

signed,

Hamid A. Ali

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You've got members of Team 11:

John "Psychoflood" Schreiner
Derek "Eyekantspel" Ridings
Mark "Fuzzy" Hawthorne
Ed "11Ed71" Venator
Mike "Mike Nawrot" Nawrot (lol)
Chris "Chrisms" Smolko

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I, Ian Jones, of team 1571, do hereby sign this petition.

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Hello everyone,

The concerns have been forwarded to FIRST and to Autodesk. Thank you for your support.

At this time, I would like to ask the moderators to close this thread.
Jane