Who's ready for San Jose?

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by KTBSPASonya858

For those of you who are going to San Jose and are you ready for it?

Silicon Valley Regional is going to be very exciting this year! There will be at least 2 regional winners, team 47 and team 254, and one of the Sacramento regional finalist, team 1120, at this completition, plus many othe teams that did very well at Sacramento Regional, Portland Regional, Arizona Regional, and winners from previous year's California Robot Game, team 258, 852.

Personally, its going to be great seeing the WRRF teams competing again. Teams from out of state may not know about WRRF, but Western Region Robotics Forum has been an organization of teams in the Bay Area who got together a few years ago and decided that as a group, we can better support Robotics education related programs out here. There are lots of great people to meet , you simply have to go around the pit area and talk to them.

Oh yeah, by the way, I will be there at the scoring table stressing out as usual . It will be fun score keeping at the oldest West Coast regional since it got started in 1999. I simply cannot believe 5 years ago I was only of the clueless kids standing with the team cheering for our robot.

Its definitely going to be cool!

*edit* Also, for those of you who are interested, I put together a package for the competing teams with a bunch of info for the area around the regional venue. Check them out at these links:

Part 1: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...le&paperid=265

Part 2: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...le&paperid=266

You just can't be too prepared for a FIRST competition ;-).

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[Cory]

Team 100 will be there, with a robot performing better than last place :-P

Dont be surprised if you see us with an entirely new drive system.

Cory

[akracefreak]

Hey everyone, team 568 cant wait for the regional to start! See you all there.

[Marjory Frosty]

Originally Posted by Ken Leung

*edit* Also, for those of you who are interested, I put together a package for the competing teams with a bunch of info for the area around the regional venue. Check them out at these links:

Part 1: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...le&paperid=265

Part 2: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...le&paperid=266

You just can't be too prepared for a FIRST competition ;-).

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Thank You.

I have been trying to put some stuff together for this Reginal. As some of the students said we have never been out to the West Cost yet, we usualy stay in the Mid-West or East Cost area. I am a little nervous going to CA
"blindfolded" . I look forward to seeing great things and great teams next weekend.

Frosty

[KTBSPASonya858]

Originally Posted by akracefreak

Hey everyone, team 568 cant wait for the regional to start! See you all there.

I can't wait either there like maybe 6 or 7 teams going to SVR who are not from Califorina.

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Marjory Frosty

Thank You.

I have been trying to put some stuff together for this Reginal. As some of the students said we have never been out to the West Cost yet, we usualy stay in the Mid-West or East Cost area. I am a little nervous going to CA
"blindfolded" . I look forward to seeing great things and great teams next weekend.

Frosty

Don't worry, when I came here from Hong Kong 9 years ago, I thought there was going to be orange trees and beaches everywhere, blinding sun shine day and night, Hippies all over the place trying to convert you into one of them, and everyone surf and call each other dudes. Oh, and I also thought everyone was a vegetarian and a part of Green peace. Well, turns out most of that were true.

But I survived. And if I can do it, so can you ;-).

You will see that the west coast have a different pace than most Midwest, Michigan, and east coast regionals. But I must say I’ve always like west coast competition the best, even after visiting IRI. Statistically, there are fewer engineers on teams here, more high school teacher as mentors, and more student run teams. But we are slowly convincing that successful programs need a close relationship between high school students and mentors, so student ran teams have more and more mentors helping them now.

Don’t be afraid to go around meeting people. There are a lot of great mentors and FIRST-a-holic at SVR who aren’t active on the Chief Delphi Forum. Its mostly because we communicate through the WRRF mailing list and meetings.

[Bill Gold]

I've got a couple questions for the teams from outside the San Jose Bay Area. When do you all get into town? And how many team members are you bringing?

See you all soon!

[akracefreak]

Hey, we're leaving alaska on wednesday afternoon and getting to SVR that evening. For us, its a big team this year, a whole whoppin 10 people! (students that is) haha. Another team from anchorage is coming down but i dont know how many people they are bringing. We're all stayin at NASA....i think...

[michelleL]

Originally Posted by Bill Gold

I've got a couple questions for the teams from outside the San Jose Bay Area. When do you all get into town? And how many team members are you bringing?

See you all soon!

Team 47 is arriving to San Jose on Wednesday noon(ish) to tour around town for that day. We will be having 27 student members coming..(thats our entire team minus coaches and engineers)

[KTBSPASonya858]

Originally Posted by akracefreak

Hey, we're leaving alaska on wednesday afternoon and getting to SVR that evening. For us, its a big team this year, a whole whoppin 10 people! (students that is) haha. Another team from anchorage is coming down but i dont know how many people they are bringing. We're all stayin at NASA....i think...

Is your team doing anything special when you get to San Jose?

[akracefreak]

Originally Posted by KTBSPASonya858

Is your team doing anything special when you get to San Jose?

Not that I know of. I think we're just takin it easy for the day and getting our heads together. But I dunno, we'll see when we get there. Maybe our teams can get together and do something?

[Christina47]

Originally Posted by akracefreak

Not that I know of. I think we're just takin it easy for the day and getting our heads together. But I dunno, we'll see when we get there. Maybe our teams can get together and do something?

That sounds like an awesome idea. Whoops* Don't know how that word came out. See you in San Jose!

[akracefreak]

Wheres team Delphi staying at?

[KTBSPASonya858]

Originally Posted by akracefreak

Wheres team Delphi staying at?

The Marriot

[KTBSPASonya858]

Originally Posted by akracefreak

Not that I know of. I think we're just takin it easy for the day and getting our heads together. But I dunno, we'll see when we get there. Maybe our teams can get together and do something?

That would be nice it will give us a chance to get to know each other. And I don't think that our coaches will mind if the whole team sits down and goes to dinner or something.