G.R.I.T.S. (Georgia Robotics Invitational Tournament and Showcase).

[Gary Dillard]

The event will take place in the Century of Flight building of the Robins Museum of Aviation (Starbase Robins, aka "The Foundation"), 1942 Heritage Blvd. Robins Air Force Base, GA 31098

Friday. September 18th
11:00 - 12:00 Event Staff Setup
1:00 - 6:00 Teams Arrive, setup
4:00 - 8:00 Practice Matches
8:00 Venue Closes for the night

Saturday. September 19th
7:00am Venue Opens for Saturday Arrivals
9:00 - 4:45 Quals & Finals
5:00 - 5:30 Awards
5:30 - 8:00 Team Social

Details are on the GeorgiaFIRST website

[Josh Drake]

Are you making the trip?
We're thinking about it.
Anyone else interested?
Sounds like fun!

[ttldomination]

Generally during the Spring season, the administration isn't too happy when a few students miss like ~6 days of school for competition(in block schedule, that equivalent to 12 days), so I don't think we'd be getting on anyone's good side if the team came on Friday.

But we're definitely making the trip for Saturday. We're trying to get the school to help out with transportation so we're not taking like 10 minivans down to Warner Robbins.

Is there a list of teams who have already signed up?

[JesseK]

Oh snap! I went to high school in Warner Robins! And I didn't think many people had ever heard of the place .

Perhaps there's a teeny tiny chance I could make a trip down.

[Zflash]

1319 will be there we already sent the check. We are so excited to finally be able to attend an off-season event. There just aren't enough in are area. I am sure that G.R.I.T.S will be great and we can't wait to see all our friends from GA as well as all the ones outside of GA and maybe ven some new ones. Hopefully we will have a chance for a few upgrades before we attend, so we can really "Make it Rain" Thanks again GA FIRST for putting this on and I can't wait.

[Tom Bishop]

Glad to hear that 1319 and 1261 will be there. 343? 832 sent in our check Monday. Can't wait to see everyone! Looks like its setting up to be a good field

Definitely second that there are not enough off-seasons in the South. We also plan of going to TNT in October.

Who else is going?

[JesseK]

I hope that the event is putting at least a little bit of pressure on the 4 high schools in the county to show up and see what robotics is all about, and at least start a county-wide club. I know my old physics and calc teachers would have LOVED this kind of thing.

[Josh Drake]

Maybe somebody from the planning committee could post a team list of who has signed up so far. There would have to be a minimum number of teams too, right? I wonder how 1V1 Lunacy would play out?

[Mr MOE]

Love the event name!!!

[Billfred]

I'm working on gauging interest with 2815, though time isn't on our side; the first meeting for the team is the Tuesday after Labor Day to let the college kids get through the first week of classes without having to worry about pesky things like robots.

[martin417]

It looks like 1771 will be there, how many teams have registered? I hope that it doesn't get canceled due to lack of interest.

Since the drive team was all seniors, there will be an all new drive team getting up to speed. At the moment. the bot is sporting a "WARNING! STUDENT DRIVER" sticker. We may just leave that on there for the competition.