Collegiate FIRST competition

[jhusser]

Originally Posted by CJmango

I'm glad you posted this Andrew! I was going to make a thread in the next week or two, but now is as good of a time as any.

There certainly are discussions in the works. We have a planning committee that is working through all of the logistics to make a pilot competition a reality at the 2011 World Championship in St. Louis!

As a sneak preview, the game is likely to involve Quadcopters - 4 rotor aerial vehicles that have quite a bit of zip!

We would be happy to hear input from teams and we could even do so through this thread. What do you think would be important to see at the collegiate level? That goes for the game, the robots, the engineering challenges, the Gracious Professionalism and so on.

If you're interested in participating in the challenge, working with the committee or volunteering in some other way, please email me directly and we can go from there. You can reach me at FIRSTSeniorMentor 'at' gmail.com or through CD.

Thank you in advance!

i belive that a collegiante level competition is an amazing idea. the only problem might be with finding students and mentors, and we cant forget coming up with amazing challenges and games to challenge the mind of a college student.

and lets face it everyone knows that the worst part of FIRST, is having to give it up after high school.

but this may effect frc teams because some teams have college students as mentors for thier team.

i know that the comittee will make the right choice, like the do all the time, and make robotics even more fun and more challenging then any one ever though it could be.