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Re: Great Ideas - Not too late!....give them a break
Posted by Fran .

Other on team #166, Team Merrimack, from Merrimack High School and Texas Instruments/R.S. Machines.

Posted on 3/17/2000 10:33 AM MST


In Reply to: Great Ideas - Not too late! posted by Raul on 3/16/2000 3:12 PM MST:




I realize that everyone is getting restless waiting to compete for the first time or again BUT what do you guys think the first people are doing while we type our opinions and great ideas on CDF?

They're on the road for all of March setting up and knocking down meets and I bet they don't even want to think about making any changes for this year but will love it for next year.

FIRST HQ is so empty right now that it echos......I know this because they have started a new program that will affect our future: ROBOWIZARDS......kids 10-13 can go every weds for 2 hours and get 5 weeks of lessons/hands on building on drive trains, pneumatics, linkage etc and then 5 weeks of building a robot like the high school kids!! I can't wait til these kids get to the high school and I wish our team memebers could take a mini-first program. They will also offer it as a 1 week summer camp. Well the point I was trying to make is that there are only a small handful of people at HQ now and during nationals week only the 2 guys running the kids program will be there.So maybe they will read your great ideas now and maybe they will in a saner time.

Fran
Team 166
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: These are great ideas.

: I don't see why it is too late for FIRST to implement this format. It does not affect anything that the teams have planned for. There is no reason that I can think of why the format for the National should not be different from the regionals.

: Figuring out how to balance the field for each section is the only issue. They just have to be careful not to load one group with too many strong or weak teams - how would they judge that? Maybe by results of the regionals?

: Raul


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