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IV. Kick off |
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Unlike last year, the New Hampshire kick off will take place at Verizon Wireless Arena, and there will also be remote kick offs across the country this year in the following city: Houston- TX, Los Angeles- CA, Manchester- NH, New York City- NY, Novi- MI, Toronto- ON, Richmond- VA, San Jose- CA (others may be added).
The NH kick off should have the same format as last year: workshops on Thursday and Friday, reception at Dean’s mansion Friday night, revelation of the 2002 game on Saturday morning, follow by handing out kit of parts…
Remote kick off’s, however, will not have the actual field nor Dean’s mansion… There should be a live broadcast of the NH kickoff, as well as kits of parts and 2002 manual(?).
A lot of teams are debating between sending team rep. to NH kickoff or remote ones… Well, here are reasons why teams would want to send team rep. to either one of them:
New Hampshire kickoff:
Look at the playing field in front of you, and move around objects to get a feel of how they react.
Reception at Dean’s house
Meet with other teams’ representatives, and share the experience as a team coach/leader. Experience a really close sense of FIRST community.
Visit FIRST’s place and look at how FIRST is run by hands full of people
Attend workshops before Saturday
Remote kickoff (depend on location):
Less traveling expense
Take along the students
Receive kit of parts locally
Watch broadcast of kick off together with your team
Teams should also consider the possibility of sending two team reps to New Hampshire, and the rest of the team to local kick off.
Also, Dr. Joe of Chief Delphi (#47) said his team might be doing the usual seminars at kick off again (motors, programming, & rookie camp), and he have a few questions for folks out there. Take a look at his questions with this link: if I build it will you come…-
http://66.78.36.159/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=882
Details of kickoff (NH and remote) should be announced shortly… Pay attention to those details, FIRST might be shipping field objects to the remote kickoff’s
We will keep you updated.
Threads related to this issue:
“At remote kick offs, what will happen is that they will have a NASA feed on a big screen. There will be kits there as well.”
Who's going to kickoff and where?-
http://66.78.36.159/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=812
Kickoff Location-
http://66.78.36.159/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=879
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VI. Others |
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(phew… he is finally done –Editor)
There’s an interesting discussion about collaboration on Scouting database between teams at this link:
http://66.78.36.159/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=802
Andy Grady’s Scratch award!
http://66.78.36.159/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=762
For New England teams, are you interested in Quincy Pre-shipping practice match?
http://66.78.36.159/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=803
Are you interested in trading T-shirts? (I won’t mind having a Chief Delphi shirt
-Editor)
http://66.78.36.159/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=792
WELL! Thank you for your time spend reading this letter. Any comments and suggestions are welcome… Send E-mail to
ken_leung@hotmail.com if you have anything on your mind. ;-)
Good luck, and have fun with the 2002 competition!