pic: FIRST in CT

[nobrakes8]

Originally Posted by ToMMan b182

well my team is the center of a FIRST circle.. right in the middle of 999, 1071, 228, 155, and 178.

but there is an opening above us.. (ponders ideas)

opps my bad posted twice

[Jay H 237]

I like how CT has most of the 170 series numbers......173, 175, 176, 177, and 178. There are more teams here in CT than I previously thought.
Now if we could get another team up near Norfolk or Colebrook we could have the northwest corner taken care of. The problem is these towns have more farm animals than people!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

I like how CT has most of the 170 series numbers......173, 175, 176, 177, and 178. There are more teams here in CT than I previously thought.
Now if we could get another team up near Norfolk or Colebrook we could have the northwest corner taken care of. The problem is these towns have more farm animals the people!

thats funny, i always thought watertown had more cows than people..

according to the shaw brothers that is

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

I like how CT has most of the 170 series numbers......173, 175, 176, 177, and 178.

As was explained to me, in times long ago in FIRST, the teams were numbered by their main sponsor in alphabetical order.

All those #170 something teams that you mentioned have UTC as a sponsor.

Juust like almost all of the #40 something teams have (had) Delphi as a sponsor.

There's a bit of FIRST history for you!

[Andy Brockway]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

Now if we could get another team up near Norfolk or Colebrook we could have the northwest corner taken care of. The problem is these towns have more farm animals than people!

Team 716 is Region 1, basically the northwest corner from Canaan to Kent. Norfolk and Colebrook are in Region 7 with New Hartford and Barkhamsted. I have been talking to different schools and Gilbert (Winsted) and Litchfield are interested in starting teams. Not much industry up here so fundraising is full time!

[nobrakes8]

Originally Posted by jpsaul7usa

Holy Cow! There are way more teams in Connecticut than I thought. It looks like someone drove down a freeway and recruited everyone in their path. Maricopa County (Phoenix metro area) alone is twice Connecticut's size, but we have less than half of the number of teams. That's insane.

It helps when FIRST was founded in New England and that CT has one of the highest population densities in the country (I think)

[Jessica Boucher]

Originally Posted by nobrakes8

It helps when FIRST was founded in New England and that CT has one of the highest population densities in the country (I think)

Depends on where you live....(see signature)

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by nobrakes8

It helps when FIRST was founded in New England and that CT has one of the highest population densities in the country (I think)

i would make a map for NY but there are 77 teams and a lot more ocming just from Rochester for the RochesterRegional next year

[Lisa Rodriguez]

i always knew CT had a lot of teams, but wow.
Also, 173 should cover like 3 towns, lol but that's ok we're fine since our main meeting place is EH

[nobrakes8]

Yeah 1071 is like almost like 173, we cover mostly (like 98% of team) from wolcott HS but has kids from Kaynor Tech (waterbury) and Bristol TEC (Bristol)too.. Team 228 I think has like 3 or 4 schools part of them too.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by nobrakes8

Yeah 1071 is like almost like 173, we cover mostly (like 98% of team) from wolcott HS but has kids from Kaynor Tech (waterbury) and Bristol TEC (Bristol)too.. Team 228 I think has like 3 or 4 schools part of them too.

We had kids from Kaynor Tech on the team for a while there as well, till our dumb school board said that we could not have students on the team from other schools - totally going against the beliefs of FIRST and our team for the expansion of exposure to FIRST and thus science and technology. :sigh:
The Kaynor Tech students (now grads) still stop by once in a while and help out where they can.

Just think how RAGE (or other multiple school based teams) would look like if their school's administration was as closed minded as ours.

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Just think how RAGE (or other multiple school based teams) would look like if their school's administration was as closed minded as ours.

RAGE is CONSTANTLY apprising our primary school boards of our accomplishments and coming before the school board meetings several times a year so they are aware of what a great program FIRST is. The school and town administrators of all our 5 high schools receive frequent e-mails and monthly newsletters from us. We encourage them to visit our practice facility and be sure to point out that our primary strength is in our diversity and ability to be teammates on the FIRST playing field, while being rivals on the sports fields. We are able to have a practice facility in East Hartford and our "build" and CNC facility reside in Rockville, with students traveling to each. We recognize that we are fortunate to have this arrangement and work hard to keep it going.

[nobrakes8]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

We had kids from Kaynor Tech on the team for a while there as well, till our dumb school board said that we could not have students on the team from other schools - totally going against the beliefs of FIRST and our team for the expansion of exposure to FIRST and thus science and technology. :sigh:
The Kaynor Tech students (now grads) still stop by once in a while and help out where they can.

Just think how RAGE (or other multiple school based teams) would look like if their school's administration was as closed minded as ours.

Yeah actually 237 is how I got into robotics. We did a reasearch project at Kaynor Tech on the Web, then I found Utitec does/did sposnor you guys (I work for them).. We had a small group of like 4 kids who we're interested in team 237 (all out of town students), but your board of education made the decison that we couldn't join (unless Kaynor paid some of the insurance, and that's just not realistic out of our school, we can't even afford to keep all our best and highest paid teachers). The Kaynor students who were interested do understand that the decison was made by above your advisors and it's not directly your team's call.

[Alex Pelan]

For some reason, this image is not displaying properly...its the only image i've ever seen malfunction on this computer...
(All i get is red x in white circle)

EDIT: I got it to work, and it looks great! I really don't have a very good mental map of CT,so I got to see where some of these people I talk to actually come from. Also, what Elgin said about the teams being alphabetically ordered by sponsor was correct, but I'll add a bit. Only the first 191 teams are done like this. Team numbers were randomly assigned until the 1998 season when the teams were given static numbers based on sponsor alphabetically. Team one had a sponsor of 3D systems, and 191 had/has Xerox. Based on our website,their were random team numbers for one year, in 97. Ours was 59. One day I was walking through the shop when I see this monocaulk (spelling) arm in the corner, which has a big 59 on it. I'm not sure as to why it was there. After that,they assigned team numbers randomly (except perhaps by date of joining the program.

[Michelle 236]

awwww, look at 236, 521, and 500 together in the corner!!!! we're bestest buddies!