Now that everyone has been
watching Live Earth on Bravo (riiiiight???) and has
signed the pledge (riiiiiiight????), the question is... how is your robotics team going to help fix global warming? What are YOU going to do to Answer the Call on your robotics team?
Will you:
- Be responsible for making sure lights are off in rooms that aren't being used at your Robot Build location?
- Set up a recycling program for your robotics team, not just for all of those cans of Mountain Dew, but also the Aquafina bottles and cardboard pizza boxes littering the workbenches?
- Use more recycled materials on your robot and prototypes? (25%? 50%? 75%? 100% Recycled?)
- Ask FIRST (politely) if they can use carpets made out of recycled materials on all of their playing fields?
- Petition your school or Build Location to switch to LED or compact fluorescent bulbs?
- Carpool to or from robotics?
- Take your bike (or walk, or snowshoe, or crosscountry ski) to robotics?
- Ask your school or build location to turn the heat down five degrees?
- Turn off the programming computers at the end of the day, instead of leaving them on all night?
- Make your robot solar powered? (Note to self: requires FIRST rule change. Better Idea: )
- Make your battery chargers solar powered?
- Beg FIRST to include your team in the hydrogen fuel cell Green Machine competition.
If every single robotics team replaced ONE lightbulb with a compact fluorescent, we could save $50,000 during Robotics Season ALONE - enough to pay to start up 5 rookie teams! So don't just sit there, DO something! And tell the ChiefDelphi community what you plan to do this upcoming robotics season!