Israeli team asking for volunteers to drive their robot at Champs

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Leav

Thank you all for being so enthusiastic about this!
To you and all others who will post here later: I hope we can all work together to form the best team we can for 3358, so that their robot will show it's full potential!

Have any pictures of the robot?

[XaulZan11]

My first thought was that this could be a great opportunity for some Dean's List finalists who are in St. Louis without their team.

[rsisk]

Hmm, my daughter is a dean's list finalist, drove for our team in San Diego, coached for her team in LA, and will be in St. Louis without a team. Sounds like the perfect candidate for the 3358 drive team. I forwarded her the link, but she is in school right now and cannot respond. I'm sure she would be thrilled to be part of the drive team.

Danielle would prefer to be a driver but would also accept a position on the pit team. I have PMed you her contact information.

[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Hmm, my daughter is a dean's list finalist, drove for our team in San Diego, coached for her team in LA, and will be in St. Louis without a team. Sounds like the perfect candidate for the 3358 drive team. I forwarded her the link, but she is in school right now and cannot respond. I'm sure she would be thrilled to be part of the drive team.

My son is also a Dean's list finalist from Michigan. He was drive coach of the team for the last 3 years and is very good at it. He is also in charge of the pit and can fix any mechanical, pneumatics, electrical and control system issues. He will also be there without a team as we did not qualify for the first time in our 3 short years. My son goes to a public school that is mostly Jewish families.

I think it is a great idea to let these Dean's list finalists without their team work together.

I will be there also and as an automotive engineer for almost 25 years, I can be available to help support this all-star Dean's list finalist team.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Ed Law

My son is also a Dean's list finalist from Michigan. He was drive coach of the team for the last 3 years and is very good at it. He is also in charge of the pit and can fix any mechanical, pneumatics, electrical and control system issues. He will also be there without a team as we did not qualify for the first time in our 3 short years. My son goes to a public school that is mostly Jewish families.

I think it is a great idea to let these Dean's list finalists without their team work together.

I will be there also and as an automotive engineer for almost 25 years, I can be available to help support this all-star Dean's list finalist team.

I agree, Jason would be a great addition to the team.

[viperred396]

leav,

I have pm'ed you our details

Thanks,
Bryan

[Jon236]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

Have any pictures of the robot?

Alex.....I am looking for them and will post them when I find them!

[ktress357]

Team 357 may be able to offer two or three students to help out. I'm talking to my team's head mentor now about it. We have team members with three years of driver/ operator practice that may be able to help out,also we have a couple students which got some practice as human player this build season, and a lot of our members have a lot of practice working as pit crew. I will see what we can do, and let you know.

[pandamonium]

I am an alumni who mentors our teams strategy and Drive team. We have a very good secondary team who really want as much experience as possible. They would really enjoy this opportunity and I can guarantee they will do a great job.

We have a very skilled driver who is a senior. She has won 2 off season events with different robots. She is very good at adapting to different controls and is a quick learner.

We also have a coach that has been itching to get more field time. He loves strategy and eats, sleeps, and breaths first.

I can get you video of them driving and perhaps give them a chance to interview for this role. I have a feeling you will have a ton of interest and may need to hold try outs!

I am really excited about this!

[Ryan Himmelblau]

This sounds like an amazing idea. Being Jewish myself I can really sympathies with 3358. I have posted this link on my team's forums, and will talk with them about this at our next class meeting. We always take a large number of students down to worlds and I'm sure some of them would love to help.

Personally, I can volunteer to help out with any of their mechanical needs. (At my Scouting Mentor's discretion of course)

[JaneYoung]

Leav,

When you get the team put together that will represent 3358, please post here in CD with their information. Also, please post a photo of the 3358 teams together. This is so cool.

Jane

[Jon236]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Leav,

When you get the team put together that will represent 3358, please post here in CD with their information. Also, please post a photo of the 3358 teams together. This is so cool.

Jane

Jane,

You should have been there a couple of years ago when I introduced Greg Needel's team to 2214, the Yamin Orde Youth Village. The kids from 2214 were virtually all Ethiopians, so they were very tall, very black and very Jewish. Greg's kids were all short Afro-American Baptists. As I pointed out....'now, you probably thought all Jews are white.' FIRST is great at impacting culture!

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Jon236

Jane,

You should have been there a couple of years ago when I introduced Greg Needel's team to 2214, the Yamin Orde Youth Village. The kids from 2214 were virtually all Ethiopians, so they were very tall, very black and very Jewish. Greg's kids were all short Afro-American Baptists. As I pointed out....'now, you probably thought all Jews are white.' FIRST is great at impacting culture!

Jon,

I would have loved to have been there. I remember some of the posts and stories you have shared with us about the experiences you have had. They have all made me smile and very happy to see so much positive impact occurring.

@Alan - your wife has an awesome sense of humor.

Jane

[pandamonium]

I believe that there areas many as 6 teams from Israel registered is this a problem only one team is experiencing?

[Leav]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

I believe that there areas many as 6 teams from Israel registered is this a problem only one team is experiencing?

6 teams are indeed attending the championship, but this is only a problem for one of them since only one team is comprised of religious students.

If you'd like to know more - wikipedia, As always, proves to be a good source of information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Israel
I can give you the short version right now: we're a complicated country...



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Regarding finalizing the team:
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I'm going on vacation for the weekend (Thursday-Saturday), so I'll leave this open until Sunday.
On Sunday I'll contact everyone who volunteered (anyone who has posted here or contacted me via PM by then) we can work together to build the best volunteer team to help 3358!

Thanks again for volunteering... you are all reminding me why I love this community and FIRST so much