Any Teams in NJ want to Split the cost for a field, setup practices?!?

[nHouse]

Danny, thanks for the offer! unfortunately you guys are over an hour's drive south of us here in south jersey, and even further for some of the northern teams. Hopefully we can get a practice in or something but considering the traffic going south on most weekdays it'd be near impossible for us.

[Danny McC]

Originally Posted by nHouse

Danny, thanks for the offer! unfortunately you guys are over an hour's drive south of us here in south jersey, and even further for some of the northern teams. Hopefully we can get a practice in or something but considering the traffic going south on most weekdays it'd be near impossible for us.

Yeahh i knew you guys were kinda up there. But I was just extending the offer to everyone in New Jersey.

[BandChick]

I'll bring it up with our lead mentor tomorrow, or at latest, Monday. =)

[Lowfategg]

Hey wondering, would you be building this at PTM?

[galewind]

We're going to buy some of the home depot FRP to build like 1/4 field, and we'll be likely building two trailers. If teams are going to build a practice field together, it'd be good to buy a consistent type of FRP to mimic the field a little better. My concern, though, is that teams won't have enough orbit balls to put together a full practice field unless you have at least 25 teams. That's not a criticism of the effort to put a field together, though.

[nHouse]

yea, we'll be building it at PTM unless there is another team with a better facility near by, and as for the game pieces our plan was to get as similar as possible material to whats used in the current balls and just cut out strips and book socks to make our own lol.

[neoshaakti]

Project management wise, the host team should be " in charge" of reproducing the surface of the field at their facility. They should then delegate different elements of the field to teams based on the drawings FIRST has provided us. Teams that aren't building element can make orbit balls. We're gonna need a ton of orbit balls, so maybe orbit balls = entrance . You have to bring x orbit balls to enter.

If we were to build a field, how often can a team "onboard" visit to practice?
Also, maybe we should look into the longer sheets of regolath and just send a check to the team instead of bringing our own 4 by 8s

let me know what u think
nHouse, just PM me, Im practically the main contact of my team
thanks

[nHouse]

Yea Neo, thats basically along the lines of what we were planning on doing. As of now, we're assuming the field will be at our place (Bridgewater, Somerset County) but if anyone has a better location for local teams let me know.

As for managing the field setup and orginization if it were at our place we would most likely (i have to check with the mentors) just buy the required tiles at the best option possible and get checks from teams who are participating when they come. The only thing we would need more of right now would be carpeting. As for the Orbit balls go, each team would hopefully be able to construct an adequate number of balls and bring them as well as a trailer but that would be setup on a per team basis, maybe some teams just cant do it in which case the slack could be picked up.

Whatever teams decide to participate would be allowed to come and practice whenever if it is at our place. We would just want a heads up a day in advance or so because the field would be literally right next to our build shop. We're at the shop Monday/Tuesday/Thursday from 3:30pm - 7:00pm and can stay later if needed and on Wednesdays/Fridays we're there from 3:30 - 9:00pm. Saturdays are 9:00am - 1:00pm or so. Fridays and Saturdays would be the best days to have Multi-Team practices and scrims involving 3 or more robots because the field can be fully setup without interfering with our sponsors workers at all. Lastly, we would send out an email to each team contact with a waiver attached for our sponsors facilities that each person would have to sign before coming over. We're pretty flexible and I think it would work out great....

Hopefully that answers anyones questions about the scenario if it were to happen at our place.

[popnbrown]

Like everyone else said there's a lot of benefits to a practice field where teams can scrim and practice with the full field. Cougar Robotics will probably be building about a 1/4 to a 1/2 field at our school, just to get the feel for the floor, but depending on how our current schedule for build goes, and if it goes on schedule which would give us about a week or two of practice, I would be more than happy to pitch in. I'll bring the idea to my team and see what they think.

Thanks for the offer,
Sravan

[GillSt.Bernards]

Is it possible to still see about that. I go to a private school in New Jersey It is in somerset county in Peapack Gladstone but I personally live in Branchburg and our mentors live in Somerville and Branchburg so we would be able to get to Bridewter easily

[nHouse]

GillSt.Bernards: of course, just let me know as soon as you can I'll get the details on how much it'll cost per team once i figure out how many teams were getting in a few days.

And incase it sounded like time was running out by all means if any teams out there want to join in let me know, theres plenty of time

[neoshaakti]

Would it be possible to send out an email through the NY/NJ email blast?