FRC Blog - Australia Regional Event Logistics

[tcjinaz]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Would it be cheaper to charter a private boat, and transport the robot and students all in one shot?

That's pretty brilliant. I don't see a reason to not allow that in this circumstance.

That;s a long trip at 15-20 knots. Figure a month on either side. You might go to Australia, win, and then not make it to St Louis in time. The students get a semester at sea?

The multiple robot thing would take some real close inspection of the rules. Bag & tag two, one for competition in North America, and another for the Antipodes?

Don't get me wrong, going to Australia is a 3853 dream from our early days. And I almost got our lead Teacher fired up about this one...

That semester at sea thing is starting to sound like fun. I have posited for a long time that a useful curriculum could be built around FIRST. Take it to sea and the biology, language and visual arts fall in with no effort.

TJ