Israeli team asking for volunteers to drive their robot at Champs

[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

[pfreivald]

Team 1551 will have our drive team at Championship and almost definitely will NOT be competing (we're still waitlisted), so we'd love to participate!

[HannahF]

Team 433 would also like to offer our help in any way that we can.

One of our senior drivers has volunteered to fill any of the drive team spaces needed.
She has two years of field experience (regional and championship level) as 1st driver and 3 years of off season experience as first driver and operator. We also use mecanum wheels so it should not be hard for her to adapt to your controls.

My programming mentor also wanted me to ask what language team 3358 programs in because if labview, we would be glad to provide a programmer and mentor for their pit as well as any other help you would need throughout the competition.

~Hannah

[Bob Steele]

Team 1983 would be happy to help in any way that they can.
We are honored that some of our brothers and sisters in Israel are participating and obeying the sabbath law at the same time.

Our pit is yours if you need any help.
I would suggest that you form a helper group that are from the Division that you are assigned. You will find this out closer to the CMP.

Let us know any way that we can help.

[rees2001]

I have some kids that would be happy to help in any way possible. One of them actually recommended 1551. As Partick pointed out they will have thier drive team there but probably not be competing. I know they are familiar with mecanum and have used it as a drive for many years. Let me know if you need anything.

Will they have other things they need help with while in St. Louis like scouting?

[pfreivald]

I spoke to my team this afternoon, and the six students and I are all very excited at the prospect, so please let us know what we can do to assist!

As Rees said, we've been using mecanum for a couple of years.

[Leav]

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

I'll be sure to do that, and I agree: this is so cool



CRITICAL UPDATE!
Jon has reminded me that the volunteers can't be jewish themselves (if they were then it would be as if 3358 was asking another jewish person to break jewish tradition)!
so this is a bit weird, but i'm going to have to ask that jewish people do not volunteer... (this is a bit awkward...)

To everyone reading this:
I am going to give everyone a day to think about this before we start working on finalizing the team.
so if you want to help: talk to your team, make sure you can, and post here.

[viperred396]

I will pass this along to our drive team! This seems to be a great way to get some people involved who would not normally go to CMP

[karomata]

Hi,

My mentor, pandamonium, mentioned me earlier. I'm the secondary coach for my team, 1511, and i have received approval to help your team if you'd like. I can coach and i am also an eletrical pit student, so i could help there, but my main focus is on coaching. I was also part of the presenting crew that won chairman's in Washington DC.

heres my email adress:
moelhelw@gmail.com
I'd love to help you guys out.
thanks
karomata

[superbotman]

I am fortunate enough to have my whole team going, so I can not totally abandon them, but if you want any help I would love to. I expect I will not be doing much in my pit anyways.

Good Luck!

[Leav]

I'd like to thank everyone for the enthusiasm to volunteer!

two reminders:

• if you're volunteering, please let me know for what position (you can edit your posts, i'll re-read through everything later).
• a lot of individuals are volunteering, which is awesome!!! if possible i'd love to hear from teams who can fill more than one role so that we get a team together who already knows how to work together.