2008 Los Angeles Regional

[jill399]

Hey guys. Team 399 is making "Science and Technology Hero Cards" for famous scientists and engineers. These are baseball-like trading cards including figures like Albert Einstein, Steve Wozniak, and (of course) Dean Kamen. But, we would also like to recognize those mentors who have helped the FIRST teams by donating their time and their smarts.

If you're going and would like to honor one of your mentors with their very own trading cards, then email team399@gmail.com and we'll send you the form to fill out for 1-4 of your mentors (sorry about the limit, but we do have limited funds to do this). We'll have their cards along with a small pack of other scientists at the regional and will deliver them to your pit.

We hope you guys find this exciting!

Good luck with the rest of the six weeks and see you in LA.

[EricRobodox]

Cool idea. I would suggest, since i think a lot of us from LA are not on CD as much as East Coast team, try getting the Woodie Flowers and Volunteer of the Year award winners.

LA Regional looks exciting, though quite a few teams that are local can not attend due to Hawaii being the next week

Once again the extremely helpful FIRST Aid Station, ran by 599, will be back. Please email me if you have any requests or comments about the station.
EricRobodox@gmail.com

hope to see a lot of familiar and new teams this year.

[EricRobodox]

Bumpin this thread.

Who else is excited?

Whats not to love, Los Angeles has crazy awesome teams from competitive robots to aggressively public relation teams to extremely veteran teams to rookies. I guess you can say the same with our major sports teams too....

GO LAKERS!!!

anyways, I am excited. Hopefully the social will be pretty cool.

[s_forbes]

Yes, I'm very excited! Somehow the timing worked out with my spring break so that I can actually go to the whole event (and six flags on the side...). I can't wait to see some of the awesome teams going, it's been a while since I've seen a lot of them!

Hopefully we can manage to fix our possessed robot's mysterious problems on thursday and to join the ranks of competative robots. (anyone know a good exorcist?)

[Drwurm]

294 will be showing up with a performance that's hopefully a little stronger than what we showed during quals in SD.

[EricH]

I'll be there, though not with my usual team. I'll be wearing the black and yellow of 1135 as they return to FRC after two or three seasons of only FTC, instead of my normal blue and yellow.

By the way, who is interested in having an unofficial CD get-together sometime Thursday?

[Brad Voracek]

Originally Posted by EricH

I'll be there, though not with my usual team. I'll be wearing the black and yellow of 1135 as they return to FRC after two or three seasons of only FTC, instead of my normal blue and yellow.

By the way, who is interested in having an unofficial CD get-together sometime Thursday?

I would be! =D

So few west coasters use CD though, it's kinda hard to keep up ;P



If San Diego was any indication of what this event will be like, I'm excited. Definitely going to be top notch teams here... Our robot definitely will be.. improved. I was glad with our three hurdles in the last qualifier, and hopefully we can increase that number.. Although it comes no where near those at the top! =D. Our Hybrid should be getting three lines more often now though

[davidmedeiros]

What a cool idea!
I'll be looking forward to see how the final products look =)

[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by EricH

I'll be there, though not with my usual team. I'll be wearing the black and yellow of 1135 as they return to FRC after two or three seasons of only FTC, instead of my normal blue and yellow.

By the way, who is interested in having an unofficial CD get-together sometime Thursday?

Have you seen the BeachBots' shirts this year? I'd call them "midnight blue" rather than the traditional royal blue. Apparently, there was a foul-up by the shirt vendor. As you know, Team 980 is also black and yellow, so we'll be color-coordinated!

I think a west-coast CD tag-up would be great. Thursday lunch-time??

[EricH]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

Have you seen the BeachBots' shirts this year? I'd call them "midnight blue" rather than the traditional royal blue. Apparently, there was a foul-up by the shirt vendor. As you know, Team 980 is also black and yellow, so we'll be color-coordinated!

I think a west-coast CD tag-up would be great. Thursday lunch-time??

It was intentional.

Thursday lunch sounds good to meet up. Say near the "food" place(s), or outside for those that brought their own.

[EricRobodox]

I want to go, but I will probably not be able to leave the venue. Plus, its safer inside, USC and the Sports Arena are not in the best of neighborhoods. How about near the Robot FIRST Aid Station/Machine Shop? Its inside and not as congested. If its the same as last year, its a big open area near the entrance of the Arena.

[EricH]

I was thinking outside the pit area to encourage people to leave the robot "alone" for a little while. Maybe near where the FLL/VEX demo was last year. (Though the area near the Robot First Aid station could work too.)

[jill399]

Lunchtime get together sounds tiiight. But I vote for right outside the arena because after being in there all day it's nice to get outside and breathe some fresh air. Plus we could probably get in a game of frisbee or soccer!

I'm so stokeeed. It coincides with my spring break too so it'll be nice to not have to worry about making up a lot of work when I get back.

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by EricRobodox

I want to go, but I will probably not be able to leave the venue. Plus, its safer inside, USC and the Sports Arena are not in the best of neighborhoods. How about near the Robot FIRST Aid Station/Machine Shop? Its inside and not as congested. If its the same as last year, its a big open area near the entrance of the Arena.

It might be best to wait till Thursday morning to see how the field and pit areas are laid out, then have a pit announcement made for time and location.

Oh, and remember to make and wear CD name tags or buttons (if you have time).

[TheOtherGuy]

Hmm, 1726 can't wait to join the fun at LA this year! Hopefully my dad (squirrel), my brothers (s_forbes, GUI), and I will be able to meet up with all the CD members on Thursday, if we can get our robot working by then!