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Originally Posted by Chak
It took us about an hour of driving to get to Calgames. Our team made going to Calgames mandatory this year, and I don't think anyone complained.
My team's other self-taught designer and I are very willing to go anyways, but I've long since learned that others may not have the same priorities as me regarding Robotics. 
I think more people will be willing to travel a bit farther if this CAD-a-thon is made into a huge multi-team all day event, like Calgames or WRRF workshops. I, for one, would be more willing to travel for, say, a 8-hour event with more people than a short 4-hour event with less people.
You think we can organize something like this before next build season? A CAD-a-thon, physically in Bay Area and electronically worldwide. |
I'm currently typing some kind of outline for the event. If this thing is a go, then it will probably be at a location local to M-SET, which is right next to Lynbrook high where we played CalGames. In addition, this will happen during winter break (for me, break is two weeks: one for Christmas, and the other for kickoff). I'm debating myself which of the weeks should the event be held on, because first week there's Christmas and grade releases
. But then the next week there's kickoff.
I intend to have this restricted to the Bay Area since this would be more of a "learning the ropes". However, if anyone outside the Bay Area really wants in on this, then I should think more on how to do this through Google Hangouts.
I'm going to talk to my team, mentors, and friends from the other local teams, and see what they think about something like this. In addition, I might put a white paper to CD that contains the plans and stuff for an ideal CAD-a-thon event so other teams can perhaps host their own event.