Pheasant Lane Mall (Nashua) Robot unveiling

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I reolize that a majority of you all are NOT in the New England area, but I thought I would mention this here anyways.

BAE systems is working with the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH to sponsor a "Robot Unveiling" event tonight starting at 6:00pm.

All the teams local to Nashua, NH (including those in Massachusetts) have been invited. (Team 811, BG-MIT/LL will be there!)

Here is the web page describing a little about the event.

http://www.pheasantlanemall.com/n80.htm

NOTE that there will be a mock competition run as BAE is setting up a field with three goals at the Mall.

So, if you are in the area...come on by and take a look.

-Quentin

[Chris]

Thank you to all the teams who attended our unveiling, I hope you all had a good time and it was educational.

BG i really hope you robot didn't get damaged during our little struggle over goals. All the robots impressed me.


Good luck in our last weekend to all


Chris
Team 151
The wildcards

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Originally posted by Chris
Thank you to all the teams who attended our unveiling, I hope you all had a good time and it was educational.

BG i really hope you robot didn't get damaged during our little struggle over goals. All the robots impressed me.

It was alot of fun...and we thank you for inviting us!

I think the thing that the first thing we learned tonight is that a good set-up checklist is vital. (like the airline pilots go through before takeoff)

We intro'd the robot and had our left drive motor totally DEAD.....all we did was spin around the left fast when introduced, and the crowd actually went wild.....we went wild too, knowing that the left side was totally dead.

The cause of the problem.....we forgot to plug in the left side joystick!! (better it happen in a mall at a mock competition than at the real thing)

The entire BG team thanks BAE and their teams for the invitation.

-Quentin

PS: Good luck to all the teams there in their losing weight....it's a tough task...

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Yes, thank you for having invited us, it proved a wonderful time and a great test for our robot.

[Chris]

To BG,


I've been told that some of the students on the Nashua High team acted very ungraciously at the unveiling. I hope that you won't judge the team by the actions of a few, and that you take me up on the offer of using our field this weekend.

I know that there will always be a rivalry between NHS and BG, but i've heard some kids were very out of line on Wednesday night. Once again i hope to see you this weekend and at UTC.


Chris
Student Rep Team 151
The Wildcards

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Originally posted by Chris


I've been told that some of the students on the Nashua High team acted very ungraciously at the unveiling. I hope that you won't judge the team by the actions of a few, and that you take me up on the offer of using our field this weekend.

I know that there will always be a rivalry between NHS and BG, but i've heard some kids were very out of line on Wednesday night. Once again i hope to see you this weekend and at UTC.


Chris
Student Rep Team 151
The Wildcards

Chris,

I am not sure what you are refering to, but please do not worry about it because this never came up once when the BG team went back to FIRST BASE for a postmortum discussion.

The BG team all felt that the opportunity to run with 4 other robots was worth it's weight in gold. Particularly since ALL of our students, and most of our parents/Engineers have ZERO experience with FIRST and a competition.

We really appreciate the Mall demo, and if all goes well, we will try our hardest to come to the weekend invite!
(We do have more work to do on the robot though, and that comes first)

BTW: Do we need to phone ahead to verify that we are or are not coming?

What time and day can we come by?

Thanks,
-Quentin Lewis
Controls Engineer
BG High School/MIL-Lincoln Labs Team

[Chris]

I'll Get the Contact info for the engineer in charge of the field and send it to you


Chris
Team 151
The Wildcards

[Nuts4FIRST]

BG,

Call the Team "Common Area" at 885-9544. Ask Chris Mikus about accees to the Guarde for practice. Leave a message with a reliable student if I'm not there. You could always try the Guarde itself -8188 (I think). I should be there Fri, Sat, Sun, and Mon.


Good Luck,
Chris M.