2011 FRC and VRC Championships at the same time.

[Meredith Novak]

I realize this information was posted in another thread, but thought it deserved its own. The implications of having the FRC (and FTC, FLL) Championship Event exactly at the same time as the VEX World Championship seem really huge. If you have had the pleasure to attend the VRC Championship, one of the things that makes it so much fun is getting to spend more time with all the robot people who do both programs!

We (Novaks) all volunteered at the 2009 VRC Championship. We qualified 2 teams to attend the 2010 event. Because the event was the weekend after the FIRST Championship, most of our students were not able to attend the VRC event. (We brought the 7th graders and a couple of HS students who could miss 2 weeks of school in a row.)

I was a field manager, John was a referee and Harley did queing. Our 7th grade team was totally alone with 1 sophomore coach. (It was a great opportunity for them to be self-sufficient and I was very proud of them for the job they did.) But it was VERY tough just having the event back-to-back with FIRST.

So we are just one family of volunteers and one little team who won't be there next year...what about everyone else???