DUEL ON THE DELAWARE - SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE - OCTOBER 11, 2008
Hi all:
Here is an update on the Duel on the Delaware off-season competition:
RECENT NEWS
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* Play "You've Been Sentenced" at the Duel this October
* Watch the Duel via WEBCAST this year!
* Bulk Lunch Pre-Orders Will be Available Again This Year
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OLD NEWS, BUT GOOD NEWS
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* We are proud to have Wayne Penn as our Duel Emcee again this year
* Please have your team submit someone for "Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award"
= apply now; applications due by October 1
* 5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive
= continue gathering those books!
* 2nd Annual Sneaker Drive
* FIRST Tech Challenge Scrimmage
= sign ups for the FTC scrimmage will be announced soon
* Volunteer Sign-ups
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"You’ve Been Sentenced" Robotics Add-On deck Featured at the Duel
“You've Been Sentenced!” is the first game in history to turn the activity of
sentence making into a very funny, playable, and challenging game.
Using a unique word deck of pentagon shaped cards containing conjugations
of funny words, famous names from throughout history, familiar places, and wild
cards, players have to make grammatically correct and justifiable sentences.
The real fun begins when players have to read their sentences out loud and
explain what they mean to the rest of players. The players form the jury and
vote thumbs up or down on whether the sentence and justification stand and the
points are scored. The basic game features 540 cards with over 2,500 words to
insure billions of possible sentences.
In addition to the card game, the game creator McNeill Designs has developed
an online version of “You’ve Been Sentenced”. The online version of the game
will be featured this year at the Duel on the Delaware. Also featured will be the
new Robotics Add-On deck developed by team 365, MOE. Please plan to join
us at the game table to check out the Robotics deck and test your grammarian skills!
For game rules, check out the “You’ve Been Sentenced!” website
http://www.mcneilbrighterminds.com/ybs.asp
DUEL WILL BE WEBCAST FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR
We are honored to be working with Scott L from the Tigertrons (Team 222), who will
be handling the webcast of the Duel this fall. The Duel webcast page is
http://asp.shinraikon.com/duelvii.aspx
Please take a look. More detailed info will be forthcoming.
BULK LUNCH PRE-ORDERS WILL BE AVAILABLE AGAIN THIS YEAR
Teams will be able to pre-order lunches again this year. In the next INFO PACKET,
the lunch order form will be included.
WAYNE PENN TO EMCEE DUEL ON THE DELAWARE IN 2008
The Duel is honored to have the one and only WAYNE PENN be our emcee for another year.
MICHAEL WADE DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER AWARD
The FIRST Community does a terrific job of recognizing volunteers and mentors. The planners of the Duel event would like to continue the tradition with the 4nd Annual Duel Master Volunteer Award.
This award is a combination of the FIRST Woodie Flowers Award, FIRST Unsung Hero Award, and the FIRST Volunteer Recognition Award. This award celebrates a FIRST team mentor, who demonstrates the spirit and values of what FIRST is all about.
In honor of Mike Wade, who made the Duel on the Delaware possible by providing his NASA field and much assistance since 2001, this award will now be called the “Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award.” Mike exemplified what we are recognizing with the Duel Master Volunteer Award, so it only fitting that this award acknowledges Mike’s contributions.
Teams attending the Duel on the Delaware will have an opportunity to acknowledge and recognize one of their own for contributions to their team and to FIRST.
Those previously recognized include Ron Karpinski, Dina Campagna, and Bob Foell.
If your team is attending the Duel on the Delaware on October 11, please consider nominating a team member for this award. Nominations are e-mail only as described in the following attachment and are due by OCTOBER 1st.
SUCCESS WON'T WAIT BOOK DRIVE
5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive
at the Duel on the Delaware - October 11th, 2008
Team who brings most weight in books wins a prize
(magazines, encyclopedias and textbooks NOT ACCEPTED)
www.successwontwait.org
Teams!!! Continue collecting those books for our annual book drive!
See your team (and lots of books) at the Duel on October 11th!
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The following update is from the organizers of the Success Won't Wait
Book Drive at the Duel on the Delaware event. Thanks again for all of your
book donation efforts. Your books are being put to good use!
SUCCESS WON'T WAIT UPDATE
To finish out 2006, we have a very large project in the works with the
Police Athletic League (PAL) centers of Philadelphia. There are 27 centers
in the city which service the needs of urban schoolchildren ages 6-18. Lt.
Susan Slawson from PAL has partnered with us to provide a reward system
for these kids. Each center will receive a package of approximately 125 books
representing a wide age range. These will be used as rewards for
exceptional behavior.
According to Lt. Slawson, using rewards like this in the past has
consistently inspired amazing behavioral changes (finishing homework
assignments, volunteering for projects, etc.). She also said that many
of these children have NEVER OWNED A BOOK -- something we had a
hard time grasping.
The books that were collected at the third annual Miracle of Reading
Education Book Drive (at the Duel on the Delaware) will help us complete
this project. When finished over 3,000 books, many obtained through
FIRST volunteers, will be available to children from some of Philadelphia's
most economically disadvantaged areas.
Thank you for continuing to support our mission. Read now, because
Success Won't Wait!
Susan McNeill and Vincenza Carrieri-Russo
Success Won't Wait organizers
USED SNEAKER DRIVE
Used Sneaker Drive – we will be collecting used sneakers that are in
decent shape (used but not abused) that can be reconditioned. (Adult
sizes only). The sneakers are reconditioned and sold in Ghana. The
dollars are then taken and used to provide families in Ghana with materials
and training to farm. Every 600 pairs of sneakers provides a family with,
a bicycle, one pregnant rabbit and hutch, 50 assorted fruit trees, three hens, 100 Lucaena trees, one colonized bee hive, 50 inoculated
started bags of mushrooms, access to local water, a complete pedal driven
Miracle Pump System, ¼ acre integrated vegetable farm, and training for
one year in intensive organic farming.
2008 FIRST TECH CHALLENGE SCRIMMAGE
The Duel will once again include the official playing field for this season's FIRST Tech Challenge game. FTC teams can sign up to scrimmage and learn about the game, strategies, and playing field components for this years challenge. More information will be forthcoming.
TEAM LIST - September 12, 2008
30 Teams Max, 30 registered *Waiting List Slots Available*
Teams currently registered...
25 Raider Robotics
75 RoboRaiders
84 Chuck 84
87 Diablo (*)
222 Tigertrons
272 Cyber Crusaders
316 LuNaTeCs
341 Miss Daisy
357 Royal Assault
365 MOE/Miracle Workerz
422 Maggie L Walker Mech Tech Dragons
423 SEC Robotics - Mechanical Mayhem (*)
433 Firebirds
539 Trinity Episcopal Titans
555 Montclair Robotics (*)
708 Hardwired Fusion
709 Femme Tech Fatale (*)
768 TechnoWarriors (*)
816 BCIT
1089 Team Mercury
1218 Vulcan Robotics
1370 The Blue Charge!
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1647 Lenape Regional Robotics Iron Devils
1712 Dawgma
1719 Umbrella Corporation
1727 REX
1893 High Tech Parrots
1980 Team Aberdeen
2558 Scibots
(*) indicates team has yet to pay registration
VOLUNTEER SIGN-UPS
We still could use additional volunteers!
If you would like to volunteer to help with the Duel on the Delaware, please send an e-mail to John Larock (
John.A.Larock@usa.dupont.com).