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[BB]Award Changes for 2010
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
something to think about while I'm off for Veteran's Day Good Morning Teams, I’m excited to announce that this year, FRC is offering a Coopertition™ Award. Details will be in the awards section of the FRC Competition Manual coming soon. Also new in 2010, the Driving Tomorrow’s Technology Award will become the Engineering Excellence Award (still sponsored by Delphi) and Autodesk will retire both the Visualization Award and the Inventor Award in order to introduce the Excellence in Design Award (with expanded software options). If you’re getting excited about the 2010 season, you may want to tune in. WPI will be hosting a webinar on the 2010 FRC Control System on Saturday, 11/14, from 10AM to 3 PM EST. Webinar participants will be able to ask questions directly of some of the system developers. Participation is free. More details can be found at http://first.wpi.edu/Workshops/frccon932.html. Back, on September 29th I posted a link to the rookie/veteran kit variations document on the usfirst.org website. Today I can clear up the TBD. The 2009 robot radios have been proven to work with the new system so veteran teams will be asked to reuse last year’s radio. And don’t forget to visit the safety page of our website where the new FMA contest is posted. 59 days until the 2010 Kickoff See you there! |
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Expanded software options for a CAD/design award would be most welcome :D
EDIT: But does this mean the end of animation?? |
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Coopertition award? Cool, though it seems a bit similar to the GP award... Still love more trophies for things that should be celebrated.
Hypothetical question no one can answer yet: say you win the award for a collaboration with team x. Would both teams win the award? |
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Unless you got twins and made them say that same things.:] |
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I am EXTREMELY happy about this. There are too many teams who use pro-e and solidworks (both which directly support FIRST) to just ignore them. I think this will make the judging process very interesting but I think it is definitely a step in the right direction. |
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If you REALLY know cad, it does not take much time to move from one piece of software to another. Teaching students the techniques and basics should be the goal, not worrying about which icons they hit to get there. |
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In some cases the software you use at work depends on what the company owns, but there are plenty of examples where employee X convinced management to buy software Y because s/he was familiar with it and knew it could solve problem Z.... <Ka-ching, another $ale> |
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Does anybody know if the control system seminar/webcast is going to be recorded? I looked at the WPI website, but I couldn't find it.
Thanks, Jason Law |
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Hope we hear more soon! :confused: |
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"Coopertition™ Award
The Coopertition™ Award celebrates the team that best demonstrates the ability to help their opponents compete. In the inaugural year of the Coopertition Award, the award will be granted to the team that earns the most Coopertition Bonus points during the competition." http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...p%20Awards.pdf Also in section 5: The Awards. http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...wards_RevA.pdf |
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