Forum: General Forum
06-11-2016, 20:35
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Re: California District Proposal, Rev 2
The discussion after the discussion:
http://larobotics.org/Workshops2016.html
$100.00 per team, bring all the students & mentors you like, surplus funding goes toward scholarships--scholarship...
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Forum: General Forum
24-10-2016, 10:17
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Re: California District Proposal, Rev 2
Look forward to meeting you all in Los Angeles. Round two:
http://teacherweb.com/Blog/CA/RichardsonMiddleSchool/Petito/1/blog.aspx?Post=21f7ac9d-77a0-40a1-aa45-6a5e83e1392d
Thank you all for your...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
14-09-2016, 09:03
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Re: So Cal Fall Classic
For teams having financial hardship, contact me. We will make arrangements for you to attend and compete.
We want no team left out because school admin can't get their educational priorities in...
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Forum: General Forum
16-08-2016, 21:36
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Forum: General Forum
12-08-2016, 23:31
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Forum: General Forum
04-08-2016, 00:36
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Re: California District Proposal, Rev 2
Assumptions:
Don't want to make any, in that there could be the perception of some rivalry between N and S. There is none, to be clear.
Making this work (the District Model) within the existing...
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Forum: General Forum
30-07-2016, 21:30
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Re: Event Machine Shops
Thank you all for your most excellent observations and insight. No slight is meant on my part for any comments made by any of you.
One of our struggles here in the SoCal is the almost complete...
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Forum: General Forum
28-07-2016, 10:12
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Forum: General Forum
28-07-2016, 10:11
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Re: Event Machine Shops
Some cross-pollination from the Districts in California discussion thread--
BrendanB from Londonderry makes a good description of what happens at small events: ad-hoc, extraordinary but disjointed...
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Forum: General Forum
28-07-2016, 09:45
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Re: Event Machine Shops
Hi RoboChair--
The idea of the temporary shop has a lot of merit- pretty hard to justify 50K of gear sitting in a trailer all year and used for only two months on weekends. The Holy Cow example...
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Forum: General Forum
27-07-2016, 23:33
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Re: Event Machine Shops
The pix are from the second AZ regional in 2016 at Grand Canyon University.
It's a very well organized steel table setup, with electricity wired in, air compressor chucks plumbed on, that's...
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Forum: General Forum
27-07-2016, 10:36
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Re: Event Machine Shops
As we give thought to the essentials of a mobile machine shop, consider the strategic picture:
It's the skill base of the people using the machinery that cause the quality effect. A table top mill...
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Forum: General Forum
26-07-2016, 11:44
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Re: California District Proposal, Rev 2
I saw a NASA-hosted shop at Maderia CA a couple of years ago-very basic.
The best example I know of is Holy Cows of San Diego-getting their mobile shop organized and funded and staffed so as to haul...
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Forum: General Forum
25-07-2016, 13:56
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Re: California District Proposal, Rev 2
A Volunteer column to add: Machine Shop.
The volunteers who do this work are greatly overlooked as we view the spectacle on the playing floor and in the pits, but it takes a lot of years to become...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
22-07-2016, 08:57
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Re: So Cal Fall Classic
Thank you all for setting aside volunteers for the upcoming SoCal off-season events. Fall Classic and Beach Blitz are making a big push for spinning up our volunteer organizations.
Joe
Coffee Blitzer
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Forum: Off-Season Events
20-07-2016, 22:48
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Views: 1,227
Re: So Cal Fall Classic
Fall Classic 2016 Flyer:
http://larobotics.org/resources/SCRRF+2016+Fall+Classic+Flyer.pdf
Love to have some out of state/out of country teams!
Joe
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Forum: Off-Season Events
20-07-2016, 22:38
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So Cal Fall Classic
Fall Classic is Back
"It's late September and I really should be back in school…'' Perfect time to get your new students oriented into just what it is that we do and how we do it, and the weekend of...
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Forum: General Forum
13-07-2016, 18:07
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Re: California District Proposal
Hi Michael-
Look forward to rev. 2. And again many thanks for the reflection on hard topics.
The thing on assumptions is for us to make plain what the difficulties are and how to solve them by...
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Forum: General Forum
13-07-2016, 13:06
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Re: California District Proposal
"Under the heading of 'How Should One Handle Assumptions:' "
"Perhaps more than anything else, the Walker spy case is a study in assumptions. Time and again, individuals made decisions based on...
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Forum: General Forum
06-07-2016, 14:59
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Re: California District Proposal
RoboMom & Mr. V---
In my small perspective, two of the most valuable posts. Thank you for your time and effort and the "checking the ego at the door" thing.
Joe Petito
Facilities Maintenance
PS-...
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Forum: General Forum
05-07-2016, 22:24
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Re: California District Proposal
Distillation of points:
* What we do now in the CA is pretty good, with provisos.
* Going to the district model means we do more of it, to equal high standards, meanwhile acquiring the volunteers to...
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Forum: General Forum
05-07-2016, 14:44
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Replies: 285
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Re: California District Proposal
Hi Michael C:
For the org chart thing:
Would it be safe to say the large part of us in the discussion have our fingers on the robots of local teams? The next level is an organization like (in my...
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Forum: General Forum
05-07-2016, 14:23
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Forum: General Forum
05-07-2016, 14:18
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Re: California District Proposal
On the continuing line of Volunteer C's:
Is there a body willing at this time to step up to the task? I ask because if we want some minimal District roll-out in 2018, names and titles and skills...
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Forum: General Forum
05-07-2016, 07:10
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Replies: 285
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Re: California District Proposal
Hi RoboMom--
We tend manytimes to pass over the Volunteer coordinator as a Key Role. As we sit in our dark rooms dashing off our geeky perceptions, it's the VC's, able to make the human connection...
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Maybe this thread should be re-titled "Waiting impatiently for the 2011 hint!" since having over 100 posts doesn't seem very patient. - Joe Ross [more] 
