OFFICIAL THREAD - Duel on the Delaware 2013

[Mr MOE]

DUEL INFO BLAST #2

Duel on the Delaware
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Salem Community College- Davidow Hall
Carneys Point, NJ

FOCUS OF THIS COMMUNICATION – Duel Awards and Deadlines

(1) CHARITY BOOK DRIVE – Success Won’t Wait
- Continue to collect your used books for our charity book drive competition.
- Teams bringing the most books by weight will receive a trophy and special awards.
- Textbooks, encyclopedias and magazines not accepted
- Books are donated to Success Won’t Wait, a literacy non-profit. The mission is to encourage reading, especially for those in need and children.
- ** PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING YOUR TEAM COLLECT BOOKS FOR THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE **
- For more information, check out www.successwontwait.org

(2) MIKE WADE MEMORIAL “DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER” AWARD
- Mentor/Volunteer of the year award
- Please take the time to recognize an mentor/volunteer on your team by nominating them.
- Teams can submit one nominee who has not yet won the award from their team.
- Nomination form is attached. Please complete and return by October 1st

(3) CHAIRMANS AWARD WARM-UP PRACTICE *New*
- This is not an award per se, but is an opportunity for teams to practice their Chairman’s Award presentation in front of judges
- Teams interested in participating must do the following:
o Respond by October 1st to let me know that your team is interested in participating.
o Send in a FIRST Chairman’s Award Executive Summary (same as FIRST typically requires for the Chairman’s Award). We expect that teams will just send in the same Executive Summary that they may have used for their Chairman’s Award earlier this year.
o Due date for Chairman’s Award Executive Summary is October 8th
o Prepare to present your Chairman’s Award to judges at the Duel. Currently, the presentation would be the same as a typical Chairman’s presentation at an official FIRST event. Depending upon the number of teams who are participating, we reserve the right to modify the presentation time. We expect that it will not change.
o Let us know what you need for your presentation (AV, easels, etc.)
- Our purpose for doing this is to provide teams another opportunity to practice with real judges (we expect to have at least one of the judges be an experienced Chairman’s Award judge) and to provide some helpful feedback for teams as they prepare for the 2014 competition season.

(4) DUEL DESIGN INNOVATION AWARD *New*
- Judges will talk with teams to recognize most outstanding design innovation teams can demonstrate on this year’s robot.
- No prework is necessary, unless your teams want to prepare something to illustrate your design innovation to judges.

GENERAL INFO
- Doors will open at 7am.
- Robot drop off is possible on Friday, October 18th as long as it is no later than 5:00pm. Please let us know beforehand if you plan to drop a bot off early
- If any mentors/parents/alum from your teams are interested in volunteering for the Duel, please let me know.
- Travel details available at http://moe365.org/duel2013/traveldetails.php

FIRST TECH CHALLENGE PLAY-DAY/SCRIMMAGE
- New FTC game field will be available
- Registration limited. Contact Joe Perrotto at Joseph.A.Perrotto@dupont.com for more information

REGISTERED TEAMS (we currently have a full field of 34 teams)

Fully registered and paid
Team # Team Name
75 RoboRaiders
87 RV Robotics
203 Camden County Tech / Campbell's Soup
222 Tigertrons
225 TechFire
316 LuNaTeCs
321 RoboLancers
339 Kilroy Robotics
341 Miss daisy
357 Royal Assault
365 MOE / Miracle Workerz
375 Robotic Plague
433 Firebirds
836 RoboBees
1089 Team Mercury
1218 Vulcan Robotics
1370 Thermogenesis
1391 Westtown Robotics
1626 Falcon Robotics
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1647 Iron Devils
1915 MTHS Firebird Robotics
2370 iBOTS
2607 Fighting Robovikings
2729 Storm Robotics Team
3151 Cyberstorm
3314 Mechanical Mustangs
3941 Absolute Zero Electricity
3974 E=mCD
4281 Bull Dogs
4342 Demon Robotics
4464 Team Illusion
4514 Terminatrix
4637 BambieBotz

Waitlisted teams who are fully paid
4575 the tin mints
816 Anomaly
2199 Robo-Lions

Other waitlisted teams
423 Simple Machines
3929 Atomic Dragons
369 HIGH voltage
2528 RoboDoves
2495 Hamilton West Robotics

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

John