What to DO??

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Combat Chuck

Yeah. We're in the same boat as you guys. We can't get into school, so we're in trouble. However, I think it should still be ok to ship tomorrow. The reason for this is because this year, FIRST is telling us to not be lawyers and use common sense in rules. I think this might be one of those times.

I don't want to offend you, but this is one rule that always has, and always should be enforced. I'm sure you're honest, but that doesn't mean that other teams are as honest. Teams could end up shipping days later if FIRST allowed this. You could get a letter from the mayor of your town, but whose to say he's not a crook?

When I was on my high school team Buzz #175, the sponsor Hamilton Sundstrand SSI worked out a deal with the town that on snow days, when the school was closed, engineers were still allowed in. Unfortunately, due to insurance reasons students were not. But at least we could get people in and have access to the robot. I reccomend all teams have these type of emergency plans in place.

[ShadowKnight]

wow...yeah, lots of good advice has been offered...I'll be praying

[MechaJag]

I talked to the lady at FIRST and she stated to set up a time for pickup tomorrow. She stated that we would probably have to get our principal to write a letter stating that we could not get back into the school. It doesn't really matter because FedEx reschedule the pickup. We have no choice. There is no getting into the school because the roads are to bad in our area to even get to the school. I value my life more than our robot.

[Stephen Kowski]

it isn't going to be snowing up there during the regional is it? i don't think I could take that.....

[MechaJag]

It shouldn't be. This is the first snow we've had. It's is supposed to be in the 60's this weekend.

[quickie25]

We had 2-3 inches this morning and school was cancelled. We called Fedex this morning to confirm our pickup time and they had rescheduled ours until tomorrow. After we explained the urgency they were more than happy to come today and mentioned that they were going to some other schools in the ATL area. . Our robot just left....

Best of luck,

Team 1380
The Steel Dragonz