Here's the email sent to team leaders:
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Hello everyone,
FIRST of all, I apologize for not being so frequent with my emails lately… going to three Regionals in a time span of ten days, working at DEKA, and keeping up with the Chief Delphi forums gets to be rather exhausting (but I’m sure you know how it feels, we’re all FIRSTaholics here : ). However, you may have heard from my counterpart… Don Goldthwaite. Don is a faculty member at NU, he is the NU-TRONS team leader, and he is very excited about participating on the Beantown Blitz organizational committee. Don is able to help you with information specific to NU, such as: parking, lodging, Boston, and he is responsible for handling the registration fees. Feel free to email him at
dgoldthw@coe.neu.edu for information pertaining to these topics. My main responsibility is to bring-in what the FIRST community wants, to: organize volunteers, work out event logistics, and make sure you, the teams, are happy.
On that note, registration has gone rather well… here are the 36 teams attending at this point:
Team # Team Name Team Location
19 Big Red Robotics Greenwich, CT
38 Nonnebots Woodbury, CT
59 Miami Coral Park H.S. Miami, FL
61 Blackstone Valley Regional H.S.
69 HYPER Quincy, MA
88 TJ^2 Bridgewater, MA
121 Rhode Warriors Middletown & Portsmouth RI
125 NU-TRONS Boston, MA
175 Buzz Robotics Enfield, CT
176 Aces High Windsor Locks, CT
178 The Enforcers Farmington, CT
181 Birds of Prey (BOP) Harford, CT
190 WPI, Gompei and the Herd Worcester, MA
195 Cyber Knights Southington CT
213 Dirty Birds Keene, NH
228 GUS Meriden, CT
237 Sie-H20-Bots / T.R.I.B.E. Watertown, CT
348 Normwell Robotics Norwell, MA
350 Timberlane Robotics Plaistow, NH
447 Team Roboto Anderson, Indiana
549 DevilDawgs Leominster, MA
571 Team Paragon Windsor CT
596 SciClones Hopkinton, MA
663 Whitinsville Christian School/Umass Lowell, MA
782 Kilowatts Hartford, CT
839 Rosie Robotics Agawam, MA
1027 Machatronic Maniacs West Springfield, MA
1058 PVC Pirates Londonderry, NH
1071 Max Wolcott, CT
1073 Team Force Hollis-Brookline, NH
1099 LIONS Brookfield, CT
1100 Algonquin Regional HS/Rohm & Haas Northboro, MA
1277 GD Crusaders Groton, MA
1335 Nyprobrotics Raymond, NH
1373 Spontaneous Combustion Uconn/Storrs, CT
1474 Titans Tewksbury Memorial High School
With one team on the waiting list so far:
126 Gael Force Clinton, MA
Congratulations to all of the teams who made it in! However, we do encourage all of you to send in your team’s registration fee of $250 as soon as possible. Please also include attached document. Mail to:
Beantown Blitz
Attn: Gina O’Brien-McLelland
College of Engineering
230 Snell Engineering
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-5000
Mail to:
dgoldthw@coe.neu.edu
Thanks!
Erin Rapacki
Beantown Blitz Coordinator
FIRSTaholic College Student
erapacki@coe.neu.edu
p.s. If any of you wish to meet me in person, I will be working at the FIRST Robotics Conference my whole time down in Atlanta… I served on the organizational committee for that as well. Feel free to stop by!