Possible OffSeason event in August in Michigan

[Steve Ketron]

Team 1528 and 1023 are currently looking into hosting an offseason event towards the end of August in Monroe, Michigan. I am looking for feedback from teams out there that would be interested in participating in this event.

[Mike Martus]

Off season events take a great deal of planning and up front financing. Getting the FIRST field would be important and there is a cost.

If you have a great plan, location, and many people to carry it off, including a person that knows the IFI control system give it a shot. Keeping the cost within range of most teams would be another consideration.

Team 47 would consider participating if you get the details together with enough time to plan.....remember school ends soon.

[johnr]

it would be nice to drive an hour instead of hours to an event. august is a tuff month. siblings going off to college, getting ready for high school, people on last chance vacations. if 910 can attend i am sure we would. new drivers need some time behind controls. my hats off to you for trying to start one.good luck.

[Katie Reynolds]

Depending on the cost of the event and when it was, team 857 would consider the 11 hour drive down.

[Branden Ghena]

Event in Monroe Michigan!!! I live in Monroe Michigan! That would be SWEET!

[KTorak]

aha, I got beat to it. We are working on getting it all together. However, i'd be interested in knowing how many teams are interested in attending.

Note: I kinda wish this was in another forum to get more attention - not everyone reads this one.

[Tristan Lall]

Talk to FIRST soon about getting a field. Also, FIRST was liquidating its stock of tubes; you likely need to order them immediately in order to ensure that you have enough.

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

Talk to FIRST soon about getting a field. Also, FIRST was liquidating its stock of tubes; you likely need to order them immediately in order to ensure that you have enough.

We already have spoke with Andy Baker about this. He is holding a field for the Midwest to use. We will be in further contact with him soon enough.

[cire]

I would be interested in going, Im sure my team would be too.

[KTorak]

Team 1528 and 1023 are currently looking into hosting an off-season event towards the end of August in Monroe, Michigan. We know that date may be tough for some, but we are looking for feedback from teams out there that would be interested in participating in this event (maybe even the best time to host it). We would also be interested what you would like/not like to see so we can help make this a great event in his inaugural year.

Mods: I know this is already in the another forum, but we felt that not everyone read that one and it would get more notice in GD.

[Chris Fultz]

234 will do our best to attend.
It would likely be a partial team due to other activities at that time,
but the location (close) and time sound good.

[ClareG]

Sounds like fun. But end of August is when school is starting up again, is it not? Sounds like a hectic time to have the event.

[KTorak]

State laws says school cannot start until September after the holiday. (Or it did last year at least).

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by KTorak

State laws says school cannot start until September after the holiday. (Or it did last year at least).

Our school started in August last year. Ive never heard of a law like that.

[milliga9]

There is a law in Michigan about starting school after the Labor Day holiday. One of the reason's not all schools started this last year is because of teacher contracts and school calenders that were set in place before the law was passed. Schools are to honor the contracts until they expire - after that they have to push back the start date. For example, last year my district started August 25th, next year we won't start until September 4th.

My only comment about doing an off season event in late August would be that teachers usually have professional development in the couple of weeks leading up to the start of school and its a pretty crazy time. Mid-August might be a better time.