SoCal 2005 (Whose Coming?)

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

Time to move the regional to the Anaheim Convention Center...

Originally Posted by ChrisH

The Regional committee has tried, but FIRST has this thing about competitions being in "diverse" neighborhoods.

From the US Census, for the city of Anaheim, total population 328,014:

Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,374
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179,627
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,735
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 3,041
Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,986
Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,780
Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,303
Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,346
Korean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,160
Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,025
Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,711
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 1,393
Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Samoan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,427
Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,480

The census racial data are confusing because they count "Hispanic and Latino" separately. For example, "White" and "Hispanic or Latino" are not mutually exclusive. This means that if you add up the racial totals above, they do not equal the total population, because, for example, a person can be both White and Hispanic.

In any event, it looks like a pretty darn diverse city to me. And you can walk from your hotel to the arena without armed guards.

[Cactus_Robotics]

Well its official 498 will not be coming to the socal regional this year. (not that anyone cared) after long debating the team decided not to pursue it any farther. Good luck to all the teams going though! have fun!

[SuperDave]

Well, i wish we could go to L.A. but the Vegas regional is the same weekend. Sorry, priorities to the home regional. SO happy i the first LV Regional is my senior year. I am one of the very very very few Las Vegas residents involved in FIRST since it started in Las Vegas and my HS (4 years ago).



2005 AZ Regional Finalist! YEAH, not too shabby for us.

[Cactus_Robotics]

Oh i can totally agree w/ that area of Phx but for the most part its a great city, like every city's they all have there pockets of crime and bad neighborhoods. It wont discourage our team from coming the only problem now is convincing our teacher sponsors. but thank for your suggestions

[Donut]

That teaching convincing thing didn't go so well. They think there's too much paperwork we'd have to fill out and there's not enough time. Looks like LA's out of reach this year...

[Cactus_Robotics]

maybe.... only time will tell... lets just say sometime mentors have the in's w/ people

[EricH]

If you go to LA, ignore the FIRST directions. 405 to Manchester- not a good idea, especially from the west (like the airport area). Take the 105 to Prairie instead, left at the end of the ramp, first street after the racetrack and its high fence. From the east, same way but turn right at the end of the ramp (I think...never been on that particular ramp). Or contact a local team for directions.

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by EricH

If you go to LA, ignore the FIRST directions. 405 to Manchester- not a good idea, especially from the west (like the airport area). Take the 105 to Prairie instead, left at the end of the ramp, first street after the racetrack and its high fence. From the east, same way but turn right at the end of the ramp (I think...never been on that particular ramp). Or contact a local team for directions.

Better yet, read the Visitor Guide, which will tell you that the Prairie ramps from the eastbound 105 and the westbound 105 merge. The result is you need to make a left turn at the end of the ramp no matter which way you were headed on the freeway.

But you really do want to avoid the 405 to Manchester route in the FIRST directions. Why turn a 10-15 minute trip into a 20-30 minute trip if you don't have to? I think they picked that route because they like the street name

[indieFan]

Just curious if we will have to pay for parking this year, and if so, how much per day? (Have to know how much I need to make in Vegas this weekend to afford it. 8-D)

indieFan