Forum: General Forum
10-21-2016, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,365
Re: [FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results
Out of curiosity, what makes you think there's motion on the overall attitude towards stop-build? I won't claim to know either way, but we had shipping to regionals through 2011, I think, with a...
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Forum: General Forum
10-19-2016, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 4,193
Re: Eliminating "Start Build Day"
Eric - I had thought about moving kickoff all the way up to Champs... But I don't like it for four reasons.
First, you have that impulse for graduating seniors to start the robot and then go to...
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Forum: General Forum
10-18-2016, 08:42 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 4,193
Re: Eliminating "Start Build Day"
I think kickoff is at a good time - I don't want it prior to the end of year holidays - that period is a guaranteed 1-2 weeks off school for students, and the week or two prior to that everyone is...
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Forum: General Forum
10-18-2016, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 4,300
Re: Discussion: Release Team Field Drawings Early
Undoubtedly, having field elements on hand while prototyping, building, and testing leads to improvements in team robots. And yes, lower resource teams typically build fewer/no field elements.
But...
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Forum: General Forum
10-17-2016, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 408
Re: Collapsible or Portable Workbench
Our battery cart was strong enough for this (we upgraded to a new one last year, but kept the same concept).
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/35785
Basically, a sturdy base, lockable...
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Forum: FIRST Lego League
10-14-2016, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 324
Re: No MN Events?
High Tech Kids runs FLL here in MN, their website has some dates and locations listed:
http://www.hightechkids.org/fll-tournament-schedule
I don't know why those aren't on the FIRST website, though.
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Forum: Regional Competitions
10-14-2016, 12:24 PM
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Replies: 317
Views: 71,714
Re: Registration 2017
Ok, I've rewritten this like 5 times, I keep going back and forth.
The first one could be a useful comparison next year with the new preference system Frank has talked about in the blog - does the...
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Forum: Team Organization
10-12-2016, 10:24 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,267
Re: Suggestions for a team trailer?
It's definitely possible to tow a team trailer with a minivan - if the trailer isn't too big. I've seen team trailers that are huge, and ones that aren't.
The real question is what are your...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
10-11-2016, 01:02 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,494
Re: 2017 Minnesota Regionals
There were a lot of spots held back in the MN events this year. When you look at MN's growth rate, we'll probably be in the neighborhood of ~220 teams this year, with open capacity at our own...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
10-10-2016, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 317
Views: 71,714
Re: Registration 2017
He gets it from "Rookie year: 2002". I believe he's been actively collecting this data and saving it locally, not relying on an outside resource (Like FIRST) to provide the historical information.
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Forum: Fundraising
10-10-2016, 02:18 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,870
Re: Large Corporate Sponsorships?
First, you have to identify your target company(s)... who do you want to sponsor you? This can be tricky - it's tempting to go with a "shotgun" approach, but that generally means you spend less time...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
10-10-2016, 09:47 AM
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Replies: 317
Views: 71,714
Re: Registration 2017
I always love seeing those graphs, Mark... But with registration starting 2 weeks later this year because of the server issues, should we still show them all starting at the same time? My thinking...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
10-07-2016, 11:16 AM
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Replies: 64
Views: 5,233
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Forum: Off-Season Events
10-07-2016, 09:50 AM
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Replies: 64
Views: 5,233
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Forum: General Forum
10-06-2016, 12:19 PM
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,601
Re: FIRST Server Issues
We got in for our regional, and got a confirmation email and everything... then went in for kickoff, and got error'd out. So maybe the site lasted a minute or two longer than last time?
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Forum: Regional Competitions
10-06-2016, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 317
Views: 71,714
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Forum: General Forum
10-05-2016, 05:29 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,282
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Forum: Fundraising
10-05-2016, 09:31 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,569
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Forum: General Forum
10-03-2016, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,377
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Forum: General Forum
10-03-2016, 10:16 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,345
Re: What is this????
If it's like most of the other 2009 driver station's I had experience with, it's probably dead from static shock by now!
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Forum: General Forum
10-01-2016, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 4,008
Re: Volunter Verification
We get it. You're rich and give a lot of money to FIRST. But I have to ask... what does that have to do with ANYTHING?
FIRST didn't decide what information was needed to perform a background...
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Forum: General Forum
09-30-2016, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,377
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Forum: General Forum
09-30-2016, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,377
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Forum: General Forum
09-30-2016, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,377
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Forum: General Forum
09-30-2016, 02:18 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,377
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Well I have to admit, most of the people on our team are geeks. I think that it's a title of honor considering it might as well be "boss" or "head supervisor" or something along those lines. - Cyberguy34000 [more] 
