Florida Off-season, Mayhem @ The Museum

[Arefin Bari]

I am proud to present the Florida Off season Competition 2005, Mayhem @ The Museum which will take place on 8th and 9th of July. The Competition will take place at the Museum of Discovery and Science in Broward County downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. South Florida FIRST has taken the responsibility to run this Off season Competition. Broward County is represented by...

Team 108 (SigmaC@ts - Motorola/Dillard HS/Taravella HS)

Team 408 (Roboticks- Blanche Ely High School)

Team 710 (Paw- Apex Machines & Westminster Academy & Pine Crest School & North Broward, Coral Springs Christian)

Team 1251 (TechTigers- Sonny's Enterprises Inc. The Car Wash Factory/First Service Realty Int'l & Atlantic Technical Center Magnet High School)

Team 1345 (Platinum Dragons- NASA/D & D Millwork/Dragon Heat - a 21st Century Program & Stranahan High School).

Agenda:

July 8th (Friday- this day is optional for teams):
- Team showcase
- Free Imax Movie Ticket
- Team conducted workshops
- PR outreach
- FLL demonstration
- Go into conjunction with the animatronic dinosaur exhibit.
- Late afternoon/evening, BBQ at the beach.

July 9th (Saturday):
- Qualifying Rounds
- Elimination Rounds
- Entertainment (Performances, Mentor driving)
- Awards
- We should be done by 4 p.m.

Maximum Capacity of teams (as of now) - 25

Museum of Discovery and Science will open up the whole place to us for this off season competition. There are many restaurants and fast food places available around the museum (there are few at the bottom floor). Arrangements are being made right now. We need your help. We want you there. We would like to know who would be interested in coming (we definitely want the Florida teams to be here as well as teams from other states). As of right now, we are looking at $200 - $250 registration fee. If you have any question, feel free to contact me at arefin.bari@gmail.com or Mr. John Burke (Magnet Coordinator, Broward County Public Schools) at john.burke@browardschools.com

[Gabe Salas Jr.]

I automatically volunteer myself and my team to attend this off-season event. I am pretty sure it is alright with the rest of the team, only if we can get more pink people to go; which is not very difficult to do (especially during the summer). Plus it is fairly local.

[Barry Bonzack]

now I have to choose between this and IRI? Come on! ::wonders how I can swing going to both::

[Dan Richardson]

Wow thats great to hear they finally got that up and running I remember we were talking about that last year and I'm glad that The Museum brought it all together.

Count Me in to help out and hopefully I can rally the rest of the Florida FIRST guys to come out and help.

Who can we contact to let us know how we can help.

Dan

[miketwalker]

Have you guys established hotel plans with any of the local-area hotels for this event? Often times some motels/hotels will offer a special rate towards teams. I think if we found out about the hotel situation teams could better plan and assess whether or not we can attend.

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack1604

now I have to choose between this and IRI? Come on! ::wonders how I can swing going to both::

IRI isn't the same week as Mayhem @ The Museum (I think I am going to IRI too). I would like to see team 1390 and team 1604 down here.

[Swampdude]

Woohoo, chaching.. one ticket please! 179 won't miss it...

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

Wow thats great to hear they finally got that up and running I remember we were talking about that last year and I'm glad that The Museum brought it all together.

Count Me in to help out and hopefully I can rally the rest of the Florida FIRST guys to come out and help.

Who can we contact to let us know how we can help.

Dan

Thanks Dan for Supporting us. We would love to have you down here to help us out. I will be talking to the volunteers and see what we would need to do to get this going.

Originally Posted by miketwalker

Have you guys established hotel plans with any of the local-area hotels for this event? Often times some motels/hotels will offer a special rate towards teams. I think if we found out about the hotel situation teams could better plan and assess whether or not we can attend.

No, we haven't had a chance to get in touch with the hotels/motels. Teams should be able to get rooms for the night as a group. Also, keep in mind, Friday the 8th of July is optional for teams who are traveling from far distance.

[danield710]

me and pete will probably be there, my brother will probably come too, you can count us in

[tiffany34990]

if i have a ride down.. i'll love to help out...

i missed the bots @ the museum last year cause i was on a plane to chicago..this year i should be home then...

can't wait to have fun w/ my favorite florida teams and ppl...

[Specialagentjim]

BTW, if anyone can remember some of the old fun challenges we used to do at Mayhem In Miami, please send me a PM or IM. I'm trying to think of all of them. So far I've got:

"You think you can do it better???" for the mentors
"All girl drive team"
"Capture the hill" - not so useful for this year's game, but maybe I can modify it a tad...

[Masterfork]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

Woohoo, chaching.. one ticket please! 179 won't miss it...

ohh yeah swamp awsome will tytus go

[Tytus Gerrish]

you mean My driving career isin't over yet?

[techtiger1]

Originally Posted by Masterfork

ohh yeah swamp awsome will tytus go

I be alsmot sure if swamp goes Tytus will be there. Can't wait it should be alot of fun. Event is open to all teams.

[Dan Richardson]

Well the one Good thing about Ft. Lauderdale is there is quite a pluthera of Hotels, and this museum is about a 7-10 minute drive to the beach and all the resorts there. It could be quite a vacation for some people :-) I'm excited to see a competition in my home town.