Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

I treated myself, bought the book at the Championship and lugged it home.
It contains the people stories of FIRST, including Jennifer Harvey, Kristian Breton, Team 1589, Mike Martus, Joe Johnson and Brandon Martus and CD, Dave Patterson, in FLL in Alaska, the Israeli teams, 126, Dr. Murphy, 296, Woodie Flowers, Kyle Hughes, LEGO, Dave Lavery, 111, 103, Jeremy Roberts, and last but not least, my favorite-Anne Bergeron.

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

The book will be available shortly- more than likely through the FIRST Store.

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

This book is an amazing resource for people that are wanting to start teams. I have shown it to a few friends at Columbia and got an amazing response. or just help their FIRST withdrawl, there are so many people mentioned it is nearly impossible not to know someone.

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

This book, as previously mentioned, was discussed a little bit in the FIRST:Behind the Design entry forum at Championships. According to Vince, it is more or less a compilation of essays of a sort, describing all the attributes of FIRST teams. He said while the one book is about the design, this one is about the stories. I think it might be more of a FIRST inspirational thing; it will help new teams get some ideas and show each other that we all go through some pretty interesting experiences and difficulties to manage our programs and design and build a robot. I think it might help everyone reminisce on their beginnings and appreciate how far FIRST has been able to take this.:)

The only other thing I know for sure about it, is that it is not published by Rockport Publishing, the company that publishes the Behind the Design book.

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

FYI .. the book is available on Logo Loc's website now.

$47.95 each

http://www.logoloc.com/first/Product/FirstBook.html

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

Well, it is on the front page now. I think we need to work with them on their page editing though... They misspelled the name of the organization they're trying to sell product for...

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks like Gunn's 2006 robot on the cover(FRC 192).

They probably got a picture of it at Cal Games.

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

Having been within three feet of both the book and 192's 2006 robot, I can say that you are correct.

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

Just for my personal curiousity, but how many books are in a case (24?) and why would someone want to buy a case? I'm guessing give-a-ways or to resell them...

Re: FIRST Book: "FIRST"
 

I bought a copy and it is an amazing read. I highly reccomend buying a copy because it truly reveals what FIRST is all about. It's worth every penny.