2008 Boilermaker Regional

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Unfortunately, Team 1319 will not be attending Boilermaker Regional this year. We have had a great time for the past two seasons, but this year we will be attending a regional closer to home.

Good luck to all the teams attending. I'll try to watch some of the matches online if possible.

[I.U.man_22]

Cyber Blue 234 is attending the boilermaker regional this year.

[Mr.D]

Warren Robotics #829 is in for BMR. I sent our registration fee in last week (January 15th) and are awaiting a confirmation from FIRST.

[AmyPrib]

Students and Adults!

If you are planning to attend the Team Social at Boilermaker, please make sure you go to our website and signup for your name badge. This is the same as we did last year - and a badge will be required to enter the Team Social facilities after dinner. (the dinner will require a ticket to get in - either pre-paid or at the door).

http://purduefirst.org/boilermakerre....php?page=home

Thanks!

[PUFIRST]

Boilermaker Regional Teams

Purdue FIRST Programs is working on developing media content to promote FIRST and our program around campus and to sponsors. We would like your help! Purdue FIRST will be sponsoring an elevator pitch competition to promote what FIRST means to you and your team and awarding winners at the Boilermaker Regional.

What is an Elevator Pitch?
An elevator pitch is a concise and well practiced description of a business venture (in this case FIRST) that you would deliver if you found yourself in an elevator with a potential sponsor. In 1-2 minutes, the pitch should describe:

* The FIRST Competition
* Your market and its size (Who do you reach?)
* The support your team receives
* Your leadership, mentors, etc.
* Your competition: Why you chose FIRST instead of other activities?
* What makes FIRST unique?

The video should be no more than two minutes in length. Upload the video to
YouTube no later than March 11th, and forward the link to
PR@purduefirst.org so that we can add it to the Purdue First YouTube
channel. Please include your team name and number. The top videos will receive recognition

at the Boilermaker Regional on March 13-15.


Thank you for your submissions we look forward to seeing them, and good luck!

[Greg McCoy]

Scholarships
Two new scholarship programs are now available for the Boilermaker Regional: One for the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology @ IUPUI, and another for Ivy Tech. The deadline is fast approaching for all of these!

Purdue - March 1
IUPUI - March 10
Ivy Tech - March 12

Details for all scholarship programs are available here. Be sure to apply...you just might win

Photo Gallery
The Boilermaker Regional has a new photo gallery too. A few pictures from the 2007 event are up now, and we hope to have many more this year!

[AmyPrib]

Teams attending BMR - don't forget if you're going to the social activities after the dinner, you must signup on our website to gain admittance. This is quick and easy to do.

Also - we have some new info on the website including scholarships and concessions info, as well as Enrichment tours that we've done in the past. We plan to use the big train (Boilermaker Special) to run campus tours. Signup will be first come first serve during the event.

See ya in a week!
Thanks!!

http://purduefirst.org/boilermakerregional/index.php

[Joe Matt]

I might try to make an appearence this year, stop by Brother's and Where Else?, and egg the Alpha Sig fraternity house. It depends on if I can find somewhere to stay/get off work.

[Greg McCoy]

Some people have been asking through email already, so I'll announce it here...the regional will be webcasted, hopefully Thursday-Saturday. Check this page on Thursday to get the latest information on how to watch:

http://purduefirst.org/boilermakerre...p?page=webcast

I'll also try to post lots of pictures to our photo gallery during the event.


Get excited! We're less than a week away!

P.S.: You can add an über-cool BMR userbar by placing the following in your signature:

[url=http://first.purdue.org/boilermakerregional][img]http://first.purdue.org/boilermakerregional/images/userbar.jpg[/img][/url]

[Qbranch]

Wow... looks to be another GREAT boilermaker regional...

TechnoKats, WildStang, Cyber Blue, 1501 THRUST... list goes on.

The Kil-A-Bytes will see you there!

-q

[fluffy]

Any idea where/when the results will be posted for the scholarships?

[Derek Smith]

Try PMing AmyPrib, she might know.

[monster1018]

Team #1018 is anxiously awaiting a wonderful event at BMR this year! Good luck to all teams!!!

[65_Xero_Huskie]

No 71 This year??

[Ryan Dognaux]

It's business time everybody. I wanna see everyone bringing their friends and their parents and their parents' parents and that guy you just met from down the street who is kind of cool but is kind of weird too so you're not quite sure how to invite him to a robotics competition but you do it anyway because you're just that excited for this weekend. But no pets. Not my rules, probably Purdue's... and FIRST's.

Do bring your GP though, I don't want to hear any smack talk, let's work together and get everyone to have autonomous modes that blow other regionals' autonomous modes out of the water. No one likes a stagnant robot.

No one likes a stagnant crowd either. Everyone in this group should bug their team to stand and cheer like crazy the whole time Friday and Saturday. This place needs to be off the hook the entire time. It's everyone's responsibility to barely have a voice by the end of Saturday.

And come stop by 1646's pit if you need any help. We'll do our best to help you or find someone who can.