Forum: General Forum
06-10-2016, 12:44
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,622
Re: Registration 2017
Finally registered at 9:43 am for Los Angeles Regional.
Got an error after clicking the "Register" button on the LA Regional page. Hit the back button on browser, which reloaded the page, hit...
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Forum: General Forum
06-10-2016, 12:05
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,622
Re: Registration 2017
Logged in at 9:00:30 and got as far as clicking on Event Registration when a "Something went wrong!" message appeared.
Unable to login since..."There was an unexpected error."
Primal scream therapy...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
28-09-2016, 22:28
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,226
Re: So Cal Fall Classic
Fall Classic Awards
Saturday/Sunday
Most Creative Robot: 599/687
Highest Quality Robot: 1138/5209
Most Effective Design: 3255/1197
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 14:48
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,622
Re: Registration 2017
I don't want to take shots at the IT team at FIRST, I'm sure they work hard and are understaffed for the job at hand.
The IT team's consistent struggle with rolling out website upgrades, server...
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 13:17
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,622
Re: Registration 2017
Agreed, but FIRST not anticipating this possibility (given prior history AND the new website) by having "Plan-B" ready to go isn't acceptable.
The email blast announcing a postponement should have...
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 12:23
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,622
Re: Registration 2017
I'm not surprised by this issue. A month ago, it took three attempts over a few days for our W-9 form to be accepted. I don't think they have their arms around their system.
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 11:58
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,622
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Forum: General Forum
06-09-2016, 19:06
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,767
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
Have you used FIRST "updated" websites and on-line tools?
I cannot imagine they've been fully vetted and approved by management, given the difficulties encountered with new versions.
(It took me 3...
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Forum: General Forum
03-09-2016, 19:15
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Replies: 48
Views: 4,286
Re: Teams Using Slack
We used the free version for over a year with a total of 40 people. You will likely hit the 10,000 message limit, but if you remove old or extraneous messages, you can manage that.
There is also a...
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Forum: General Forum
28-08-2016, 23:26
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Replies: 48
Views: 4,286
Re: Teams Using Slack
Team 980 has been using Slack since July 2014. We're a pretty small team (<20 students), but we have a lot of activities year-round.
We have over 30 channels for communicating in specific areas...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
23-08-2016, 22:09
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Replies: 94
Views: 8,746
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Forum: General Forum
17-08-2016, 00:49
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Replies: 155
Views: 23,783
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Forum: General Forum
16-08-2016, 16:35
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Replies: 155
Views: 23,783
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Forum: General Forum
16-08-2016, 02:02
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Replies: 155
Views: 23,783
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Forum: General Forum
13-08-2016, 13:33
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Replies: 155
Views: 23,783
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Forum: General Forum
05-08-2016, 02:31
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Replies: 62
Views: 4,528
Re: FIRST 50 years ago / 50 years from now.
At first, Michael's prediction seemed to be pure pessimism, but then the reason emerged in this thread:
It took 20 years after the quake of 2045 to establish the infrastructure needed to hold FIRST...
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Forum: General Forum
04-08-2016, 00:05
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,957
Re: FIRST Robotics Day at Dodger Stadium!
The LA Dodgers have set aside 900 hundred tickets for our FIRST Robotics group!
Thus far, almost 350 tickets are committed. We'd like to surpass the 500 mark within two weeks to confirm pre-game...
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Forum: General Forum
28-07-2016, 00:45
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Replies: 54
Views: 9,491
Re: Inspirational teams
Maybe I have a bit of bias here, but I believe across FRC you will find little argument that Team 16, The Bomb Squad, has been an outstanding inspiration for hundreds of teams.
My bias comes from...
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Forum: General Forum
26-07-2016, 21:35
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,957
Re: FIRST Robotics Day at Dodger Stadium!
Block ticket orders from the Dodgers are due by Thurs Aug 4 (20 ticket minimum, $17 ea). Tickets returned to the Dodgers will be fully refunded (until 2 weeks before the game - Aug 21).
Team 980...
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Forum: General Forum
10-07-2016, 01:29
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,198
Re: Cooler Master Built Some Robots
Thank you so much for hosting FRC Teams at Cooler Master yesterday.
Several Team 980 students are into building and "mod-ing" high performance machines for gaming, video, animation, etc.
Our "core"...
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Forum: General Forum
03-07-2016, 01:56
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Replies: 73
Views: 6,303
Re: Future FRC Technologies?
How about this for a new FRC technology? Scanning LiDAR (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scanse/sweep-scanning-lidar)
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Forum: General Forum
23-06-2016, 11:01
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,111
Re: How does your team use Trello?
We've been using Trello integrated with Slack for a year now. Slack is our primary team communications tool and has proven to be very effective.
Trello certainly helps a great deal in task planning,...
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Forum: General Forum
15-06-2016, 19:45
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Replies: 48
Views: 5,712
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Forum: General Forum
13-06-2016, 23:20
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,039
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
03-06-2016, 11:05
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,109
Re: Team Domains
HostGator is the website and email host for team980.com. Our domain name is registered through Namecheap.
We use Google Apps for Non-profits, Slack for primary team communications, Trello for task...
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