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Part of me is thinking he meant the mission models for the tables, right Chuku? That is what i heard you guys were doing through phoenix spud.

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Not that creepy. I think you need to come to Michigan and play with 68 and 280 to make up a very ACDC-esque alliance. (TNT and two teams with Thunder in their names, come on! This is comic gold I'm giving you here!)

Have you guys considered setting up a blog or some other way of documenting your experiences starting FRC in a new country? If we ever hope to grow FRC to the scale the FLL has reached we will need to streamline this process as much as possible and your feedback could be priceless.

I also have to give you guys kudos on this part of your website:
(Emphasis added)

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Thanks Andrew. I used to live in NH, have done FLL for 5 years and did FRC (I was on team 2342) for 2 years. So, when we moved to Australia, my one condition was we had to start an FRC team. As I like to joke around, I have been involved in FIRST ever since I was -4 months old. So, I take FIRST pretty seriously, and your compliments mean a lot.

We were building the FLL mission models the other night as BrendanB pointed out. We had a great time building the sets that are going to be used at our states' competition. Most of our current team members--we are always looking for more people to join the team--are volunteering at the competition as either team helpers or ref assistants. We are all looking forward to encouraging the next generation of FRCers this upcoming Sunday. (Saturday night in the USA!!!)

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Hey,
Last night we had a big meeting and we started going over what we will be doing closer towards the build season.
We also are working towards getting the website goint, we bought a domain and one of our mentors have put a strange latin placeholder on there: thethunderdownunder.org :confused:

Hopefully we can get english on there soon! ;)

Thanks,
timytamy

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You could try to get an article about your efforts in the paper, maybe a news network will see it as an education or community story.

Congrats by the way. Best of luck.

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Thats one of the things we are looking at. We had a buisness subteam meeting a few weeks ago and that was mentioned.

At our last meeting there was a few people from the Uni's film school. They were also recording at the FLL tournament where we were helping out.

Thanks,
timytamy

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Hey TimyTamy and Pheonix
I'm one of the ex 759'ers (now mentoring), who were the first team from the UK, so if you have any questions regarding international stuff, like how to get teh kit of parts over and that sort of thing, feel free to give me a shout and i'll happily share any knowledge we have of the last 7-8 years of participating form another continent ;)
and totally awesome btw ;)

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Our website makes sense now!!!
http://thethunderdownunder.org

Thanks,
timytamy

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NICE!!!!!:ahh:

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I wonder if the kit motors run counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere? :rolleyes:

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Only on the left side of the robot.

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Hehehehehehe. I hope not, that would make things a little bit harder... :D

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YAY!!! You gotta love the laws of physics sometimes ;)

Thanks,
timytamy

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I can see it now....


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* I do not actually condone the eating of babies; however, I do condone obscure Seinfeld references.