The New York State Fair has kicked off again as of Thursday the 27th 2009. Various FIRST teams have and will be running the demonstration table there. The purpose of our visit is to get 4H people involved in the FIRST program since FIRST and 4H both have common goals, to get students involved in science and technology. During each teams stay they will be passing information to 4H leaders and other parents and students about all levels of FIRST (JFLL, FLL, FTC, FRC) and how to form new teams, and what resources are available. For our teams rotation (Team 1511) we had two FRC robots on display in addition to the two Lego robots provided by Team 340 and a FTC robot provided by FIRST. In addition to showing people the robots there was a area setup for smaller children to build things out of Legos and get them and their parents interested.
The FRC teams that will be present at this demo are 340, 145, 694, 2265, 250, 578, 191, 1126, and our team 1511. FTC team TechnoChix and FLL team Girls on the Lego will also be working at the booth.
If anyone is interested in checking out the fair please visit their website at
www.nysfair.org.
Thank you to Regional Director Ana Martinez for allowing us to participate in this event and organizing it with the 4H group. Also thanks to Deb Bigelow-Saulsbery from Team 250 for all the informational emails and documentation that she provided to the teams. They helped out greatly in or preparation for the event.
Attached is a press release going into some more detail on the event. I will be posting some pictures when I get the chance. We look forward to next year and hope even more teams will attend.
As I told my friend Joe Johnson, just because you aren't around as much doesn't mean that you can just close the book on this chapter, instead - just keep a book marker in this place, so you can remember how to find your way back home - when the time is right.
- meaubry [more] 
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