TEAM UPDATES
April 23, 2009
DON’T FORGET WE’RE STARTING EARLY! Remember we told you that we are starting the competition matches early? Well we are - with our FRC participants needing to be ready by
8:15AM! Unfortunately, if you’re not ready – we can’t hold up everyone else and we’ll be playing the match without you. It’s not fair for us to hold everyone up for late teams.
So here are two things to keep in mind: don’t get lost, and drop off your robot early.
Don’t Get Lost Getting to the Montgomery Township High School! So one thing we’ve found is that people have gotten lost coming to the Montgomery Township High School in Skillman, NJ. One reason is that our high school is only three years old, and some maps are not yet updated!
Google and Mapquest appear to be updated and appropriately bring you to our address when you use our correct address as destination:
1016 Route 601; Skillman, NJ 08558-1799. However, some GPS units are not quite updated and don’t seem to know where we are. So here’s another way, enter our longitude and lattitude into your GPS:
• N 40 degrees 25.116’
• W 74 degrees 42.316’
Drop Off Your Robot EarlyIf you are close enough to the Montgomery Township High School, you should consider dropping off your robot on Friday, May 15th, the day before the event. This will reduce your stress and number of things you need to do Saturday morning.
You must let us know by sending us an email at
registration@montymadness.org or call us at (908) 533-4765
with a good estimate as to your time of arrival. Do not show up without alerting us please! You may drop off your robot and pit items between 3:00 PM and 9:00 PM and team members must be accompanied by an adult.
We will be doing practice matches on Friday evening from 7PM to 9PM. A map showing the robot unloading location is found on page 2 of this update.
FIRST TECH CHALLENGE RETURNS TO MONTY MADNESS Once again this year. FTC teams will hold a set of matches at Monty Madness. Teams will compete this year’s Face-off FTC Game, along with an Extreme Version of Face-off later in the day. FTC will be located this year right outside the FRC pits. If you know an FTC team that is interested in participating, have them email Vince Frascella at
vincent.frascella@montymadness.org. Teams slots are limited.
DEDICATIONS IN OUR EVENT PROGRAM
In our event program, we will have pages where parents and students may make dedications (e.g. congratulations grads, thank you to the robotics program, etc). You may decide to dedicate from one to three lines text. If you, team parents, or team members would be interested, go to the form at
http://montymadness.org/downloads/Dedications_09.pdf. If organizations wish to advertise within our Event Program, we offer very inexpensive options. Go to
http://montymadness.org/downloads/ProgramAds_09.pdf for more information.