2013 Chesapeake Regional in Baltimore

[Nate Laverdure]

By the numbers:

• 45 of the 64 teams registered for the 2013 Chesapeake Regional have attended prior events in 2013
• 24 of those teams played elimination matches
• 10 teams are already qualified to attend CMP
• 8 teams were ranked 8th or above at the conclusion of the qualifying rounds
• 6 rookies are attending
• 3 of the rookie teams have attended prior events (of these, 4464 was ranked #1 at DC)
• 3 teams won a 2013 Regional Chairmans Award (128 at Pittsburgh, 1086 at North Carolina, and 1885 at DC)
• 2 teams are 2013 Rookie All-Stars (4464 at DC and 4505 at Finger Lakes)
• 2 teams were regional winners (128 at Pitt and 1559 at Finger Lakes)
• 1 day to go!!

[Wetzel]

1 day to go? I'm on my way there right now! I had last week off and I am looking forward to getting back at it.

Robots Robots!

Wetzel

[RoboMom]

Jeff beat me to it. 0 days to go.

Early load in tonight from 6-8 pm for 5 team members just to drop off.

Information about the event including webcast here: http://www.mdfirst.org/programs/firs...-regional.html Read the load in instructions.

It's supposed to hit 90 degrees today but will be cooling down as the week goes on. Bring your raincoat for Friday.

Among the volunteers we have a team of AmeriCorps-NCCC. These 18-24 year olds are devoting a year of service to various projects and FIRST was able to engage them for the Chesapeake & DC regionals. Be sure to say hi to the hardworking crew in the grey shirts.

[ehfeinberg]

Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure

By the numbers:

• 10 teams are already qualified to attend CMP

Which teams would these be?

[mehrkam]

In case you don't have it. Here is the webcast link. Right now it is not streaming for some reason.

http://www.mdfirst.org/

Click on the red text in the center: "Watch Chesapeake Regional Webcast Live: Friday and Saturday, April 12-13, starting at 8:30am"

[darkember]

The webcast says its offline for me. Does anyone else have this?

[Michael Kaurich]

We are having some issues on our end with the stream. Currently we are running video only. We will need to take the stream down to resolve our audio issue. Hoping to get it fixed when Qualifying matches finish up today.

Thanks everyone for your patience on this!

Cheers,

Mike

[bearbot]

What the issues with Saturday matches it keep going offline it be nice to watch the stream this is going to make the elimination round hard for the people watching the webcast

[KathieK]

I don't see Friday awards listed on the FIRST website (http://www2.usfirst.org/2013comp/eve...A/awards.html), can anyone update us?

[Wetzel]

Volunteer of the Year - Dennis Faber
Volunteer of the Year - Paulette and Robert Dorr
Imagery - 2640
Innovation in Control - 888
Creativity - 4541
Excellence in Engineering - 1086
Team Spirit - 1086
Entrepreneurship - 365
Rookie Inspiration - 4638
Woodie Flowers - Michele Kosin, 4288

[Michael Kaurich]

We haven't had any really big problems today with the stream. The matches have occasionally dropped due to the bandwith being used at the Convention Center. We are keeping tabs on it.

[RoboMom]

Thank you.
To the 64 FRC teams. To the 150+ volunteers. To all those Jr.FLL teams at the Expo (and the parade), to the FTC teams, and to the FLL ones too. To everyone who helped with the inaugural FIRST Stop visitor program, including all the outstanding student ambassadors who took the training seriously and made the event shine. To the adult ambassadors who led the TEDxBaltimore Adventure tours and helped manage all those visitors for FIRST Stop. To the NASA Robotics Alliance and the staff in the mobile machine shop. To the amazing alumni who are running the event in lead roles (looking at you Greg, Anne, Steve, Courtney, Jeff, Andrea, Tim for starters) and all the other alumni who volunteered, and stopped by.

And finally, thank you to our Senator Barbara Mikulski, who spent 2.5 hours at the Chesapeake today- listening to the stories, watching the action, and asking some great questions. We were so honored.