PLEASE RESPOND: NRLB & Spare Parts at Nats

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Originally Posted by mtrawls

This sounds like a really good idea. I'll go ahead and ask the question since no one else has ... for those of us that are going to be working in the pits/on the operator team (or otherwise partially occupied), is there anything that we can do from time to time to help out? E.g., walk to various teams handing out fliers about the program and direct them to the division "headquarters" (primarily for thursday, I imagine)?

Yeah, they could. This was built in as a partial job. It seems to work well as part of a scouting program. Go any hand out the fliers and talk to them about the program and also get the information about their robot. A member of our chairman's committee spearheaded this. So yes you can have another job and be able to help with this. From being on a drive team last year at championship I don't know how much time you will have to do a lot of other things. I hope they don't have the long walk thing year though.

Originally Posted by mtrawls

Also, would other things besides strictly "spare parts" be put on the list? I'm thinking about things like soldering irons, hot glue guns, and other items many teams seemed to need (I know we lent ours out many times at our different regionals). Another thing that might be included is the IR beacon; I was suprised that not a lot of teams went this route, and so not many have them ... and even some teams that use the IR sensors didn't bring their beacon (again, ours has been lent out ... and even just the EDU controller itself without the beacon has been lent out extensively).

Yeah, parts could be included. We didn't specifically include our parts but had them organized so we would know where to find them quickly if another team needed anything. We are not specific in what we include but add as much we can that team might need so yes the other things could be included too.