2011 IRI

[Steve Ketron]

As per Andy Baker, "Applications for competing at IRI will be entered on the IRI website, starting May 9th, ending May 15th."

The M.A.R.C's registration dealine is May 14th. This puts their registration deadline at the same time as M.A.R.C.'s. There are a lot of teams that try and go to both events. If you are interested in attending both events please pay attention to this and don't forget to register for them both.

[ATannahill]

Will there be a Vex Qualifier this year?

[IKE]

Originally Posted by wendymom

Who will be watching the kids while all the mentors are at dinner? Will they have an activity somewhere else on the property? Like perhaps washing all the mentors cars?

This is a problem that can only be solved with copius amounts of duct tape.
Or an electric fence.
Or a giant game of Ninja.
Or combine the two for a new game I call Ninja-Sparks (still working on the rules, but I garuantee it will be spectator friendly ).

[Taylor]

Will there be any Pre-Rookie festivities as there have been in the past?

I would hope the attending teams are not "from across the USA"

Are scholarships only open to graduating seniors on competing teams?

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

Will there be a Vex Qualifier this year?

I don't believe the Vex event qualified anyone for anything last year... But I am interested in knowing if Swept Away will return to IRI.

[ShaneP]

Team 330 is looking forward to this event. We always have a great time. Thanks for the update.

There will be no mentor match or tournament this year

That's too bad. I was seriously considering entering this year...

[PayneTrain]

Yikes. 13 less teams can get in this year. That's 13 less chances for teams like mine to get accepted. We had a poor, incomplete show at Chesapeake, but I'd like to think we had a great turnaround at Virginia and finished with a top 5 robot (even if we finished 10th, I'll say we're awesome) Oh well. I really want to get a strong contingent of 422 to want to go so we can apply and leave luck to heaven.

It's a good primer for a championship in terms of team quality.

[BrendanRadabaug]

no mentor match? that was the only time mentors got to break the robot... i mean test its optimal performance.

[Alex Cormier]

How many seats are available to purchase for the dinner on the field?

[flyingcrayons]

i dont think 1089 has the resources to make it out, on the off chance that we even get invited lol. but i know a bunch of the seniors (including myself) on the team have indicated that they would be interested in making a road trip out to volunteer or just enjoy the high level of robot action

hopefully, things work out and we can make it out as a group (seniors only haha) one last time before we all go our separate ways

[BandChick]

Originally Posted by flyingcrayons

i dont think 1089 has the resources to make it out, on the off chance that we even get invited lol.

Wow, Aashay, you doubt us that much? On the contrary, 1089 is already working to figure out how to get there! We have a lot of unconfirmed possibilities right now, but I know our team works best under pressure (as do most FIRST teams)! We'll definitely be applying, and we're keeping all of our fingers crossed to get there!

[sportzkrazzy]

We are gana try to make it in again this year. Its always a blast!

[ks_mumupsi]

ill hoping to generate some interest for this within our team... lets see though..

[flyingcrayons]

Originally Posted by BandChick

Wow, Aashay, you doubt us that much? On the contrary, 1089 is already working to figure out how to get there! We have a lot of unconfirmed possibilities right now, but I know our team works best under pressure (as do most FIRST teams)! We'll definitely be applying, and we're keeping all of our fingers crossed to get there!

not doubting. just saying theres a lot of teams out there that are just as good if not better than us. trust me, i wanna go to IRI as badly as everyone else hahaha. and actually i just found out about this plan today from amanda lol. until today i had no idea we were legit submitting. this is gonna be funnnn

[familyguyfreak]

Really hope my team applies this year. We had a really good robot that could have won a few regionals if it weren't for some very stiff competition. *cough* 118 *cough* I've been lobbying for them to apply but I don't know how their budget it. I would love to just volunteer but I have work and summer school this summer. I will be keeping up on the webcast though.