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Posted on 10/14/2000 8:55 PM MST


In Reply to: OCCRA posted by Nick on 10/14/2000 1:40 PM MST:



OCCRA (Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association) is a highschool robotics league that draws a lot of its roots from FIRST but also from the various highschool sporting leagues.

Basically, the idea is to make a FIRST-like highschool robotics competition organized around a highschool sports model (or more importantly, we want it to get FUNDED like typical highschool sports program).

Oakland county Michigan is a FIRST hotbed. We have a lot of rabbid FIRST teams around these parts (I won't even name one or I will have to name a dozen). A lot of us thought that it would be great if we could set up a highschool robotics league. Through the hard work of a lot of folks, it has happened.

The kit and rules are such that the robot can be built in a typical gargage by highschool kids working with handtools. The rules are intended to equalize the resource advantage. No precision machining is allowed. No welding is allowed. Also, the stuff in the kit is sort of designed to go together so that a lot of machining is not really needed.

We are just about a week away from our first OCCRA meet.

Our vision is to have a number of meets and finish with a big county-wide finale (Nov. 11, Avondale HS).

It is a huge experiment and it has been a TON of work for the organizers but it is a very important effort. Let's hope for a great first year for OCCRA.

Joe J.

P.S. Just so folks don't get the wrong idea, I have only put in a few ounces of that ton of work I wrote of earlier -- I really admire the men & women who have put their hearst & hands into making this thing work. I have the heart but my hands are more or less spoken for 23.99 hours a day so I haven't really been able to pitch in as much as I would have liked. Well done OCCRA organizers!


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