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Re: Green Machine Competition!

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan
Has anyone heard more on the kit? I heard they were having some issues with getting it distributed. We ordered ours about a week ago and we've yet to get it. Did anyone else have the same problem?
I emailed Diane twice this week (accidentally put the wrong shipping zipcode on ours!!) and called a bunch of times. I didnt get an answer at all, and she seems pretty prompt, so it makes me think she is out of the office or something.

As for how the game is going to work, it seems like we are going to design a game and either one will be chosen or we build a robot for our game. But remember this is a pilot program, I think there is a lot of flexibility and they seem pretty open to ideas & questions.

Schedule is:
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The competition game is in four stages: TIME LINE
1. Research and Development Deadline: November 30, 2006
2. Building and Testing a Fuel Cell/System Deadline: December 31, 2006
3. Challenge: Design a Game (played by fuel cell hybrid robots, including game floor) Deadline: January 31, 2007
4. Inserting your hybrid fuel cell system into FIRST competition robot design Deadline: February 9, 2007
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