FIRST For Dummies

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Chapter 5, California Part 1: The North

Google - A major sponsor of FIRST located in the Bay Area.

NASA Ames - Sponsor of many teams. Regionals and scrimmages used to be hosted at Moffet field.

WRRF - Western Regional Robotics Forum - organizes the off-season competition Cal Games, and the WRRF workshops.

Ken Leung - Our local Dean Kamen, I believe he founded WRRF and has worked extensively to help local teams.

Ceil and Tim Craig - Mentors of now defunct team 1120, they teach many of the annual WRRF workshops and play a significant role in Cal Games.

Eugene Brooks - Mentor of team 1280 and another major contributor to WRRF and Cal Games.

Cory McBride, Bill Gold, EJ Sabithia (sry if I misspelled names) - Mentors of team 254, and excellent robot builders all around.

Mark Leon - One of the most famous announcers in FIRST and a bottomless source of energy.

Team 604 - Regional Chairman's award winner, mentor for many local FLL teams, and a very friendly group of people.

Team 254 - Winner of the most regionals in history (I believe they are at 14), won SVR five times in a row, and members of the hall of fame - also helped spread FIRST to Hawaii and Alaska.

Teams 192, 114 - I consider these teams the "Kings of Animation." 114 has won 6 regional AVA's (three in one year!) and has got honorable mention at the championship. 192 has won 8 regional AVA's and won the "Autodesk Grand Prize Visualization Award" at the championship (beating 114).

Teams 100, 255 (defunct), 232 (defunct) National Champions from the Bay Area.