Registration 2015

[Deke]

Originally Posted by nikeairmancurry

From little information I have heard through the grape vine, MSC will 100+ teams with two fields. How it is to be broken up is anyone's guess. Also newest rumors are that the event will be held somewhere on the west side of the state.

I have heard +100 teams with two fields as well, in Grand Rapids.

My guess is that it would be 128 teams (2x last year), then they can use the same system 2x. Not sure how the elimination rounds would work, maybe a two team Einstein type of championship style, the winners of both fields play.

[JesseK]

FYI, DC & Pittsburgh got updated sometime over the weekend with teams several teams officially off of the waitlist. I suspect other events have been updated as well.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by JesseK

FYI, DC & Pittsburgh got updated sometime over the weekend with teams several teams officially off of the waitlist. I suspect other events have been updated as well.

Hawaii and Las Vegas are now both showing open capacity of 5 and 4 respectively.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Hawaii and Las Vegas are now both showing open capacity of 5 and 4 respectively.

Yes, Hawaii has increased capacity.
They have been trying to do so for many years, and after tons of emails from our RD to raise it, they have finally listened.
In the past, we kept having to have teams register on the waitlist and have FIRST switch them over to registered. Our event was capable of having 40+ teams but never could understand why FIRST put a limit of 27 up until now.

-Glenn

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

New chart fun.
Team count (vet/rookie/total) by country/state/province
2823 teams right now.

can you provide a table or spreadsheet with those numbers please? and thanks

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by ebarker

can you provide a table or spreadsheet with those numbers please? and thanks

Here's the spreadsheet for that day's tally.

[ebarker]

That was a useful spreadsheet also

but before I go do some excel work, do you have the table that made the graph,

basically

state, count

example

AK, 1
AL, 8
AR, 16

etc

I want to update a spreadsheet I did about 5 years ago and look at the deltas.

Thanks

Ed

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by ebarker

but before I go do some excel work, do you have the table that made the graph,

See Sheet 3
I neglected to name it anything meaningful.

[ebarker]

I thought to check the tabs but got distracted and forgot. I downloaded the file and when I open the file it gives an error saying the file may have missing data. at first glance it seems to all be there,,,, I don't know if the file upstairs is broken or what.

Ed

[Mark McLeod]

Here are just the totals for the chart in CSV comma delimited form.
I had to give it an extension of .txt to upload it here.

Also an .xlsx format for the whole thing to try.

[ebarker]

normalizing the data against state population, teams per million population

[billylo]

Ed... this is eye-opening. Amazing numbers from Minnesota! Anyone from MN can share their perspectives on how they have managed to get FIRST into so many schools and communities?

[ebarker]

It looks like the 5 years gains, just some sample data points

2009 2014
Michigan 132 350 teams
Minnesota 81 179
California 145 234
Georgia 28 61
New York 122 139
Texas 91 109

I remember in 2009 Michigan was almost desperate to get economic development done, and there was an aggressive push on all fronts..

I'm interested in seeing how this works out in a few years with economic development in that state.

It would be nice to start building charts for each state with plot lines for the following
____teams / million population
____STEM undergraduate degree production
____gross state economic output

There should be some interesting time delays between team startup and degree production. There should be some interesting way to normalize the economic data to make some sense.

I'm working on building models for correlating FIRST with degree production and economic output. This data is key for creating policy support for FIRST.

I need to go dig deeply in Michigan data on STEM degree production rates and technologist production rates. That could be golden information.


Ed

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by billylo

Ed... this is eye-opening. Amazing numbers from Minnesota! Anyone from MN can share their perspectives on how they have managed to get FIRST into so many schools and communities?

Check out this thread http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=130789&page=2

There is a little bit of discussion there about how MN got to where it is. Let me know if you have any additional questions.

Also to note: we have 600+ FLL teams and 107 FTC teams.

[Mark McLeod]

Here's the rate at which teams have been added to event lists (so far).

The big peaks are on mass opening, 2nd District opening, and 2nd Regional opening.