Israeli Teams need help at St. Louis!

[Cory]

2 batteries is not enough. You need a bare minimum of 6 if you expect to make the eliminations.

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by Cory

2 batteries is not enough. You need a bare minimum of 6 if you expect to make the eliminations.

Based on my experience, i will have to at least agree with that. And even 6 is not always enough.
Take in count batteries for practice field if needed, and about 8 matches a day.
We want to be able to have a new battery for every match, at least that's how we roll in Israel.

[class1234567]

I'll ask when i get back with the team, but probbly so

[Tottanka]

In addition, we will be needing a cart for the robot.
Can anyone help with that?
We promise cookies, hugs and general Israeli love in return

[Walter Deitzler]

We can probably come up with something. We have to talk about it at our Tuesday meeting, but, as we are not attending champs, we should be able to provide you with some tools and other supplies. We are local, and have batteries, tools, chargers, etc. We also have a cart, but it has been modified for our robot.

[dtengineering]

It may, perhaps, be most useful to ask St. Louis area teams NOT attending the Championship for assistance.

They may be able to devote all of their batteries, all of their tools and spares, their robot cart, and perhaps a mentor with a suitable vehicle and knowledge of the local Home Depots and other stores to the cause of supporting international teams.

In fact, this might be a great initiative to involve local teams that haven't qualified, by making a few key people "honorary members" of overseas teams and helping them out.

After all, its not just Israeli teams that will face these challenges!

Jason

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

It may, perhaps, be most useful to ask St. Louis area teams NOT attending the Championship for assistance.

They may be able to devote all of their batteries, all of their tools and spares, their robot cart, and perhaps a mentor with a suitable vehicle and knowledge of the local Home Depots and other stores to the cause of supporting international teams.

In fact, this might be a great initiative to involve local teams that haven't qualified, by making a few key people "honorary members" of overseas teams and helping them out.

After all, its not just Israeli teams that will face these challenges!

Jason

You don't happen to have a way to contact the state coordinator or whatever of St Louis area, right?

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

You don't happen to have a way to contact the state coordinator or whatever of St Louis area, right?

While I am not quite a coordinator, I will contact my friends on other teams and see if they will step up. I am assuming they will, as many area teams are very friendly.

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by LedLover96

While I am not quite a coordinator, I will contact my friends on other teams and see if they will step up. I am assuming they will, as many area teams are very friendly.

Thank you! it highly appreciated! Let me know what comes up so i can let the teams know what we came up with.

[karomata]

As usual, Thundermart will be open for distributing parts and lending tools, at FRC 1511's pit!

[Phyrxes]

Several 2068 students are going down to championship to help Rookie team 4472. I will see what I can do about 2068's chargers/batteries making the trip.