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Re: [FTC]: Tips for our first-ever FTC event
Congrats on making it to your first ever FTC Qualifier!

I guess I got lucky spotting this post because our team, MASH 4077 will also be attending that qualifier. Here are the general things you need to make sure you bring:

-Your Robot!
-Engineering Notebook
-Batteries/Battery Chargers
-Any spare parts you feel you might need
-Laptop with RobotC/Labview

Those are the key items you will need to bring. Other things you may bring, but aren't necessary are:

-Banners
-Costumes
-Flyers, etc.

It will run almost like an FRC event. There will be two inspection stations set up (Hardware and Software) so you want to get your robot through there ASAP. Make sure your robot is within the 18" cube, your NXT Brick has "samostat" downloaded, etc. The matches won't start until around 11:00 even though they want you to arrive around 7:30 to have room for error.

You should see us there (we'll probably be the first ones there), so any questions about programming, mechanical malfunctions, parts, just come over to our pit and we will be glad to help you out! See you then!
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