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The “Bayou Regional Jump Start Build” hosted by Team 1912 North Shore High School on January 12, 2008 was a huge success.
10 teams (2 rookie and 8 veteran) showed up for a marathon all day build session. Teams brought their kit of parts and with the help of engineers and student veterans, seven of the teams had running robots at the end of the day. Team 364 Gulfport provided 2 engineers and 4 student veterans and Team 1912 provided 4 engineers and 20 plus students and were a huge part of the success of the event. Engineers for both Lockheed Martin and Intralox provided the technical build expertise and the crash course training. The day included building a full size practice field and a shipping crate. Crash courses during the day included safety, pneumatics, “easy-c” programming, frame build, transmission assembly and electronics board design and fabrication and they were all compressed into the day. A class was given to help the teams to approach companies and corporations to get permanent funding and support. The day started at 8:00 am and the last team finished the build at 7:30 pm.
Plans are already in progress for the next years “Jump Start Build"