Any Teams in NJ want to Split the cost for a field, setup practices?!?
 

Hi everyone, hope the early parts of everyones build season are going smoothly!

I am a member of Team 303 Panther Robotics from Bridgewater New Jersey, currently we are asking if there are any teams within the local area who would want to split the costs for a full field and setup some practices and scrims. We have the required space to build the field at our shop (it is tight but it fits) and two teams have said they are interested: Team 102 from Somerville the Gearheads, and Team 1279 Coldfusion from Immaculata.

If you are interested or would like more information please respond to this thread and/or email me at njlutkenhouse@mac.com

By doing this teams can save a lot of money, still get a full field's experience for all that driving practice thats needed, and have a strong network of local teams to work with and build relations with. Happy Building to all FIRST goers :)

Re: Any Teams in NJ want to Split the cost for a field, setup practices?!?
 

Interested and working on it, Nick.

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yeah we're interested too

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We are currently attempting to have a warehouse space donated to the cause.

That being said... we are interested in getting a practice space together with some local teams.

We were originally going to try to connect with north jersey teams to keep the travel time down as I am sure that teams are going to want to use the facilities as often as possible.

Maybe we should try to get a couple of practice fields???

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We might be interested.

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Neoshaakti: I'll get in contact with your team sometime tomorrow, if there is an email or phone number I should use let me know.

rcoren22: yea, perhaps if we had multiple field locations we could arrange for some kind of larger practice competition. if you cannot fund a full field of your own or would rather pitch in to the field we're getting going just let me know, we havn't had much contact with 223 in a few years :)

Lowfategg: ahh 2753, how goes things? Hope your doing great!!! I'll be sure to hold a spot for you guys, just give me the word :)

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We are still interested and would love to work with some of the other teams in NJ....

it is just a long commute for us coming from Wanaque NJ, so I have to look at the logistics.

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yea I just figured that may be a little to long to ask you to travel :/ thats like a good 40 minute drive.

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Dun dun dun. Hey guys. Its just me. See how everyones doing. So yeah I am pretty sure like almost 100% we are going to have a whole field just letting everyone know in case you didnt see the old post. And if we get our whole field built we are more than willing to share it with other teams who would like practice and get the feel for a whole field. So further information will be given by Saturday. If you guys think it will be easier to build your own because of the whole distnace thing than you know its better for you. I was just letting you know all the option might be on the table.

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Danny, thanks for the offer! unfortunately you guys are over an hour's drive south of us here in south jersey, and even further for some of the northern teams. Hopefully we can get a practice in or something but considering the traffic going south on most weekdays it'd be near impossible for us.

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Yeahh i knew you guys were kinda up there. But I was just extending the offer to everyone in New Jersey.

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I'll bring it up with our lead mentor tomorrow, or at latest, Monday. =)

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Hey wondering, would you be building this at PTM?

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We're going to buy some of the home depot FRP to build like 1/4 field, and we'll be likely building two trailers. If teams are going to build a practice field together, it'd be good to buy a consistent type of FRP to mimic the field a little better. My concern, though, is that teams won't have enough orbit balls to put together a full practice field unless you have at least 25 teams. That's not a criticism of the effort to put a field together, though.

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yea, we'll be building it at PTM unless there is another team with a better facility near by, and as for the game pieces our plan was to get as similar as possible material to whats used in the current balls and just cut out strips and book socks to make our own lol.