Robots: Behind the Design Who is submitting?

[Wayne C.]

I've been working hard to get together the many requirements for the submission to be considered for the FIRST book before the 1 month deadline is up. And it is becoming a major production to do it.

I was wondering- who else is sending or did send in a submission?

WC

[Not2B]

We are.
We haven't yet, and the deadline is getting closer....
But we will.

Somehow we FORGOT to submit the chairman's award this year until it was 15 minutes late, and the book entry represents the team's chance to make up for it.

Mostly it will get me to leave the students alone for a while. (They do get NERVOUS when I'm not worried about something...)

[Tim Baird]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

I've been working hard to get together the many requirements for the submission to be considered for the FIRST book before the 1 month deadline is up. And it is becoming a major production to do it.

I was wondering- who else is sending or did send in a submission?

WC

Gael Force submitted for the Motorola Quality Award (UTC Regional). It was fun (insert sarcasm here) getting it all together on time, especially considering that we forgot about it for the first week and a half...

[natis]

The High Rollers we submitted for Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award that we got in Phoenix, and in the process of finishing the other submission for the Radio Shack Innovation in Control Award. It required a lot of dedication and time to answer the question as complete as possible.
Nats

[Lil' Lavery]

Sadly, 116 could not get everything together in time to compile everything into an entry for our Innovation in Control Submission from the Peachtree Regional.
We didn't get a chance to take a picture of the robot against a white wall, gather the CAD/Design images from our integration team, proofread the submission, etc. Good luck to all of those who submitted!

[Ellery]

The X-CATS submitted for the Motorola Quality Award we received at the Finger Lakes Regional. It definitely wasn't a trivial task. We had tons of pictures to pair through and also luckily enough Xerox is our sponsor since we had a DocuColor 12 Printer at our site to print the High Res Photo quality prints they requested. It took over hours to print the pictures since the TIFF files were close to 300 MB per Batch. The Write up is also sometimes very redundant with repsect to the questions they asked.

All in all the 1 month time limit was a stretch still. We had it sent it the day before and it made it on the last day at FIRST that noon with USPS express mail.

Luckily we'll get a chance to see it in print. Good luck to the rest of the teams submitting.

Ellery

[Wayne Doenges]

Team 1501 submitted our entry before the March 17th deadline. 30 days after BMR. We had plenty of time to spare (IE 2 days)
I wish FIRST had given everyone some notice about the robot in front of a white background when they revealed the chance to be published. We had a very battle worn robot at the end of the BMR. It wouldn't looked good in the book

[Joe Ross]

We're in the final editing phases of our submission for the Xerox Creativity Award.

How long is everyone's submission? Ours looks like it will be in the range of 20 pages.

[Karthik]

Have any teams heard back from FIRST or the publishing company? Team 1114 submitted for the Leadership in Control award, and is still awaiting word.

[Ellery]

Hey Karthik,

We're still waiting to hear back as well but from reading the instructions there's nothing in it that indicates that they'll even let you know if you are picked or not. The only thing it says is that they can offer a group discount for the book when it gets published. So we're waiting anxiously as well.

Elelry

[Wayne C.]

Guys-

the literature said September for decisions but I am betting at least November. That is if it comes through at all.

I seem to recall a Disney movie about FIRST with Noah Wylie and "FIRST water" in every store in america.......

WC

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

the literature said September for decisions but I am betting at least November. That is if it comes through at all.

Based on these two sentences in the submission guidelines:

The book will be published and available through major bookstore chains such as Amazon, Borders, and B&N, as well as around the globe and possibly in multiple languages, in the fall of 2007.

Upon publication, teams whose work is selected for the book will be notified...

I assumed we will not know anything until the fall of 2007.

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

Based on these two sentences in the submission guidelines:


I assumed we will not know anything until the fall of 2007.

Dave- something somewhere was indicating a decision this fall. I know they need at least a half year to produce it.

[Beth Sweet]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

Based on these two sentences in the submission guidelines:


I assumed we will not know anything until the fall of 2007.

If we can't wait until Kickoff, I want to see how well teams wait until fall '07...

You mean their going make $39 a book after they charge us six grand or more to take part in the competition?

Magazines like SERVO and ROBOT are always looking for good robotics articles and will actually pay you very well if they like what you submitted.

Check out their websites for author guidelines.

Why give all your hard work away for free? Think twice before signing away your publishing rights.


BC
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