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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Do you have a mentor involved in this effort to attend another regional?
the only reason I ask, is usually FIRST works through a single-point contact on each team, which is always a mentor (or parent).
If you are going to pull this off decisions will have to be made quickly. Do you have funding for the registration, transportation, lodging, food, shipping....?
do you have permission from the school to attend another regional (miss classes)
do you have a teacher or other school rep on-board with this who is willing to travel to another regional event?
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My entire team is behind me, and we are all working hard to make this a reality.
We dont have to worry about missing classes because the regionals are over our easter break.
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FIRST said we can still register for the LA regional. They did not really answer my question about shipping, so I sent another email asking them agian. We hope for a response tommorow.
Our mentor from Honeywell (who does most of our shipping stuff) luckily heard about our attempt at this early this morning and got contact with the shipping company, they're currently holding the robot in storage for us and waiting. If you haven't your drayage to hold your robot, DO SO IMMEDIATELY. YOUR ABILITY TO COMPETE IN ANOTHER REGIONAL COULD BE AT STAKE. I don't know how leniant FIRST is with the rules pertaining to shipping and robots arriving back in team's hands.
To register for another regional, you must have the main contact you provided to FIRST when you originally registerd send them an email requesting to go to the event.
Since we managed to get the robot to be held in storage (and not in our hands), I think we should be valid to still compete in LA. We just have to make sure we have a school staff member who can take us there and get all the paper work filled out (a board will have to vote on it Friday since it will be an out of state event that must get approved). I don't anticipate many problems there though.
Hope you guys have as much luck as we've had, I'll let you know of anything new I find out!
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Nice, i like it, you sir, are the reason why we still have hope, this is really looking like it will become a reality, and i am so happy for the team.