NOTE: Team contacts – please share this information with your team as appropriate. Thanks!
2015 DUEL INFO BLAST #4
Duel on the Delaware
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Salem Community College- Davidow Hall
Carneys Point, NJ
FOCUS OF THIS COMMUNICATION – REMINDER – Registration Updates - Duel Awards and Deadlines
• Success Won’t Wait Book Drive – focus areas and details
• October 1 – Duel Master Volunteer Submission (please recognize a volunteer/mentor on your team!)
• September 15 – Mock Chairmans Award interest – let me know
• No changes in Recycle Rush for this event (we play the official game)
(1) CHARITY BOOK DRIVE – Success Won’t Wait
- Continue to collect your used books for our charity book drive competition.
- Teams bringing the most books by weight will receive a trophy and special awards.
- While many types of books are accepted, the organization is asking for CHILDREN’S BOOKS in particular-
- Please donate books that are organized in boxes that are easily/safely moved by one person. Please don’t leave books in bags or very large containers. Also, please do not put books in bins/boxes that you want back.
- Books are donated to Success Won’t Wait, a literacy non-profit. The mission is to encourage reading, especially for those in need and children.
- ** PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING YOUR TEAM COLLECT BOOKS FOR THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE **
- For more information, check out
http://www.successwontwait.org
(2) MIKE WADE MEMORIAL “DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER” AWARD
- Mike Wade worked for NASA Goddard and single-handedly is responsible for the creation of a number of off-season events on the East Coast. Please honor his memory by submitted the great things that a mentor or volunteer is doing for your team.
- Teams can submit one nominee who has not yet won the award from their team.
- Nomination form is attached. Please complete and return by October 1st
(3) CHAIRMANS AWARD WARM-UP PRACTICE *3rd year*
- This is not an award per se, but is an opportunity for teams to practice their Chairman’s Award presentation in front of judges
- Teams interested in participating must do the following:
o Respond by September 30th or earlier to let me know that your team is interested in participating. We will have 6 (six) judging slots. These will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
o Send in a FIRST Chairman’s Award Executive Summary (same as FIRST typically requires for the Chairman’s Award). We expect that teams will just send in the same Executive Summary that they may have used for their Chairman’s Award earlier this year.
o Due date for Chairman’s Award Executive Summary is October 5th
o Prepare to present your Chairman’s Award to judges at the Duel. Currently, the presentation would be the same as a typical Chairman’s presentation at an official FIRST event. Depending upon the number of teams who are participating, we reserve the right to modify the presentation time. We expect that it will not change.
o Let us know what you need for your presentation (AV, easels, etc.)
- Our purpose for doing this is to provide teams another opportunity to practice with real judges (we expect to have at least one of the judges be an experienced Chairman’s Award judge) and to provide some helpful feedback for teams as they prepare for the 2016 competition season.
(4) DUEL SPECIAL AWARDS (to be shared soon)
GENERAL INFO
- Doors will open at 7am.
- Robot drop off is possible on Friday, October 16th as long as it is no later than 5:00pm. Please let us know beforehand if you plan to drop a bot off early
- If any mentors/parents/alum from your teams are interested in volunteering for the Duel, please let me know.
- Travel details available at
http://moe365.org/duel2015/traveldetails.php
FIRST TECH CHALLENGE PLAY-DAY/SCRIMMAGE/WORKSHOPS
- New FTC game field (RES-Q) will be available for your teams to use.
- FTC workshops will be available to attending teams.
- Registration limited. Contact Joe Perrotto at
Joseph.A.Perrotto@dupont.com for more information
REGISTERED TEAMS (we currently have a full field of 34 teams)
Teams in YELLOW currently do not have their registration paid.
Team # Team Name
271 Mechanical Marauders
87 RV Robotics
219 Team Impact
225 TechFire
316 Lunatecs
321 RoboLancers
339 Kilroy Robotics
341 Miss Daisy
357 Royal Assault
365 MOE/Miracle Workerz
369 High Voltage
375 The Robotic Plague
433 Firebirds
533 Psicotics
836 The RoboBees
888 Robotiators
1089 Team Mercury
1218 Vulcan Robotics
1626 Falcon Robotics
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1719 The Umbrella Corporation
2528 RoboDoves
2607 Fighting Robovikings
2729 Storm Robotics Team
3151 Cyberstorm
3941 TechBrick Absolute Zero Electricity
4281 The Bull Dogs
4342 Demon Robotics
4505 McDonogh Eagle Robotics
4954 Palindrome Robotics
5113 Combustible Lemons
5404 Gearaffes
5420 Velocity
5457 Falcobots
Waitlisted teams
203 Camden County Tech / Campbells Soup
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
John