NYC Regional

[Rich Wong]

Dear 2006 NYC Regional Teams,
With the NYC Regional just one day away, I hope that everyone is
excited for some great robot action as well as stories to be heard and
shared.

On behalf of the NYC FIRST Planning Committee and Team 395,
2TrainRobotics, I would like to invite your teams to the NY Team
Social this Friday Evening immediately following the Award ceremony. I
apologize for this short notice, but we're doing everything that we can
for the betterment of the regional and for our students to enjoy
themselves and get to interact with one another.

At the team social we plan to offer “DINNER &a MOVIE” on the big
screen, pizza and soda, and movie choices are Short Circuit (featuring
Johnny 5) or Batteries Not Included, both family friendly movies about
robots. Following the movie we will have our, TEAM RELAY
RACES/GAMES, as well as SPOOF TEAM AWARDS tentatively titled the Magic
Smoke Awards: Best Secret Design Award, Most Poof Balls in Unintended
Places, Greatest Number of Volunteers Hit with Poof Balls during play,
Precision Engineering Award (best use of a hammer), Duct Tape is Not
the Answer Awards for example. **Thanks Evan of 1230 for the
suggestions. Events will be from ~ 5:30-8:00 PM.

What I need from you in an e-mail response ASAP so we can make
provision estimates. Forms and agenda will also be available on Thursday.
They will be collected by early afternoon by the PIT adminstrator.

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Team Information for NYC Social:

Team #: ______
Will your team be participating in the Team Social:_____
Total # of People Attending:_______
Ideas for Awards, inside jokes for your team, funny personal stories
about a team member/mentor:_____


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In addition we ask that participating teams:
-Get the information out to your teams
-Bring one (or more item to share), chips, cookies, pretzels, baked
goods, drinks, plates, cups, napkins, ice, coolers, etceteras. This
will be coordinated via e-mail after we get initial responses.
-Donate one Team Shirt (autographed if possible by the team) to be
given away as part of prizes.
-If you have a mentor that is driving a car, would he or she be willing
to help us pick up pizzas/other items prior to the event? It looks
like we'll be running to several different places so that we do not
overwhelm one pizza place.
-Students to help us cleanup afterwards

Please feel free to e-mail me with questions and let me know if your
team would like to take a more active role in assisting with the
Social. We're looking forward to a great Regional Competition both on
and off the field. See you at Riverbank!

Best,
Wayne Penn
wrp2003@columbia.edu

[Elgin Clock]

Rich, it sounds like a great time will be had by all attending this event.

Unfortunately, for the first time in 4 years, I will not be at the NYC regional. I'm hopefully gonna go check out the Rookie Regional in Boston as long as I'm felling better.

Good luck to all attending NYC. I'm sure you will have fun!

well the social went great. However I still need to find a copy of johnny 5.

[YonZ]

NYC, as always is awesome. I saw a lot of unexpectedly great bots today (always exciting), and TONS of positive energy!
We were at Hartford, and we saw that the energy was tied to shooting and pushing shooters, NYC is TOTALLY different, the most heated competition and what seems to sway matches the most is truly the fight for the ramp
Congratulations to Mike Siegel in winning the Woodie Flowers Award!!
Can't wait for tomorrow. I can see alliance selection being very crazy and tense to watch... all the better...(or worse?)

[JVGazeley]

Awesome everyone