JUMPSTART Training Sessions

[Chief Hedgehog]

For those of you attending JUMPSTART and are here looking for maps (and those that are just curious...) please look here:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/ed...E.kPjBl-3PdHbM

On a side note, we intended JUMPSTART for teams in the Central MN area - around St Cloud. We expected to have 5-10 team attending with around 150 students.

Well, we are now at 20 teams from across MN (including ND - go FRC 4818!) and have over 360 students registered! Needless to say, we were a bit overwhelmed at the overall interest in this endeavor. We are incredibly excited for this event!

And for those of you wondering - this endeavor is a HUGE nod to GoFIRST and their Splash training that we attended for the previous three seasons. We wanted to do for Central MN what Splash does for the Metro area teams in MN.

A special thank you to MN FIRST, CMMA, Bison Robotics, and the CMNRH as well as to all the presenters and workers. And to our partner in SCSU - thank you so much for your help! None of this would have been possible without the foresight of Dr. Helgeson and his staff!

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog

A special thank you to MN FIRST, CMMA, and the CMNRH as well as to all the presenters and workers. And to our partner in SCSU - thank you so much for your help! None of this would have been possible without the foresight of Dr. Helgeson and his staff!

CMMA = Central Minnesota Manufacturing Association
CMNRH = Centre Minnesota Robotics Hub
SCSU = St. Cloud State University

Sometimes in FIRST we get carried away with abbreviations.

With 360 kids and 20 different FRC teams Bison Robotics and our volunteers/presenters are incredibly excited. This event is going to be amazing, we have the oldest active MN FRC team in 1816 The Green Machine, as well as 6 of the newest teams. As presenters we'll do our best to cater to both crowds. From all of the presentations that I've reviewed, I can say that I think all parties will take away valuable information. Personally I can't wait for the food. SCSU has some of the best college food I've had (and I've had my fair share).

[Chief Hedgehog]

Just over a day until JUMPSTART!

Here are the Training Sessions...

SESSIONS MAP

And then the map of SCSU and all the teams attending...

JUMPSTART Map

[snoman]

Anyone have a list of items wanted/ needed for the parts exchange. Assuming that is still going on.

[Chief Hedgehog]

Originally Posted by snoman

Anyone have a list of items wanted/ needed for the parts exchange. Assuming that is still going on.

Sorry sir, we decided to put that aside for this year due to lack of interest by teams.

I believe that since most of the teams are young (6 rookie teams, 2 second year teams, and 5 teams that are 3-4 years old) there just isn't enough 'available' items in most teams' stockpile.

We hope to have this option up and running next year as most of these teams are more established and understand what they need and what they can depart with.

[mentorroger]

Today was absolutely amazing and seemed very helpful to everyone that was there.

Thanks to SCSU and CMMA for the use of your facilities and lunch. I would also like to recognise all of the presenters at Jumpstart. Great job! We couldn't have done it without you.

A special thanks goes to Chief Hedgehog for your endless push to get this going and to the entire 4607 team for their participation and work to get it done. Awesome job.