How many regionals is your team attending?

[Kyle]

MOE is attending two regionals, Pittsburgh and Philly. And Nats
We raise the money by trying very hard to get support from local businesses, and from team members support.

You are a inquisitive rookie arnt ya, I love it.

And I love ur name, its the name of our 2001 nat champ robot

[Lil_moe]

Originally Posted by Kyle

MOE is attending two regionals, Pittsburgh and Philly. And Nats
We raise the money by trying very hard to get support from local businesses, and from team members support.

You are a inquisitive rookie arnt ya, I love it.

And I love ur name, its the name of our 2001 nat champ robot

Personally rookie
team 3 year experiance

[Bcahn836]

2

BAE Systems Regional in New Hampshire
AND
Chesapeake Regional at the Naval Academy in Annapolis

[Dorienne]

We are attending one regional..---the Chesapeake Regional.

And we raise our money by doing sponsorship hunts. We do corporate fundraising, and next year I'm going to see if we can do some other sorts of things throughout the school like candy sales, valentine stuff, etc.

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Nhiem

Can you explain how the pasta dinner works? =).

close wetzel, but not exactly how we do ours.....

We hold ours in the basement/banquet hall type thing of our team leader's basement thus space=free
We then try to get food donated (a few mentors are friends with people at sauce & bread places) or buy it at Sam's Club (Cosco's, BJ's, whatever your bulk food seller is) and buy whatever else you need

The bonus about if you hold it at a place like church, or rather, any place with a kitchen, you already have cups, plates, silverware, etc for you to use.
PLUS they also have tables, chairs, etc

So thus, you set up in the morning, cook begining in the afternoon and into the evening......serve and the clean up.

Advertise everywhere you can, including the place you're having it.
Do a robot demo while people are eating, if possible.
Serve food family style, it's just easier, and forces people to get to know each other

MOST IMPORTANT, designate a time for your WORKERS to eat, either in shifts or all at once before cleaning up, after everyone else has gone. Don't forget they need to eat too!!

anything else? just let me know...pasta dinner are fun

[psquared89]

Team 245 was originally going to three regionals and no nationals, but after winning two of our three so far, we've made the (expensive) decision to go to nationals.

[sdexp]

We too, like team 007, are only attending the Chesapeake Regional. Until our team garners enough internal drive to actually go for the awards involved with FIRST, we will stick with going to just one regional because that is all we need to develop the skills we need to participate in FIRST Robotics.