Germans in FIRST?!?

[PsychoPhil]

Originally posted by Gil Huggins
It is with much pleasure that "Metal In Motion" will also bring to Orlando two exchange students from Germany. It is our hope that they too will help celebrate FIRST and introduce it to our friends there. Please be sure and drop by our pit area (Team 343) and say hello to them.

Loooooooooooool :-)

Well, I know that you guys have one German girl on your team and I guess the second german person you're reffering to is a gest staying with you from tema 885?? That would be me, lol..
But I can try to meet myself, maybe I have some luck....
lool, thanks again for taking me and Cate down to the nationals 343... C ya guys down there tonight

So long, Phil

PS: Only 4500 seconds left to go before I leave for the airport...

[mikefrei]

nope, phil, we can't go down to the nationals we were elligable (since our team number is even) but at that time we didn't have the funds and in the regionals, we made it into the quarter finals but then lost and the design award doesn't allow us to go either, unfortunately...however I'm eager to read how you guys are going to do down there

[PsychoPhil]

Hey Mike!

We're an odd team number (885) and didn't win any of the necessary award to qualify, so out team isn't going to the nats either...

But Team 343 was so nice to take us down here, so we're staying with them...

We just saw the einstein stage etc..

It's a blast down here, unbelievable....

I'll maybe try to post some photos from the nats on Chiefdelphi, so check back....

so long, Phil

[GermanZod]

Hi there

My name is David and I was an exchange student in Oconomowoc, WI back in 1999. This was the first year our high school participated in the FIRST competition as team No 269. We had such an awesome time, words just can't describe it.

I was so thrilled by the competition that I tried to start a German team, too.

First off, I showed all the video documentation we had done to my class mates at school. They were in for it but the harder part of course is to get a sponsor for your team.

Luckily I live in Bochum which is right in the "Ruhrgebiet" (a district that is very industrial) with the car manufacturer Opel (part of GM) in my city.

So I collected all my videos, made a presentation and even got an appointment with the PR manager of Opel to show him what I got.

Unfurtunately I never heard from him again after the meething although he told me that he would contact me after talking to some leaders....

I don't want to stop your enthusiasm and your motivation but keep in mind that Germany's economy isn't doing too well and I bet you won't find a lot of companies (and I'm thinking about bigger ones that could most probably afford it in contrast to smaller companies) that are willing to have some engineers work for the competition and not for them... and to spend thousands of dollars (imagine... shipping, parts and whatsoever and also getting the whole team over to the US!!!).

If you still wanna try it (maybe we can get MORE (say like... 10) of us (that's exchange students who have participated in the FIRST competition) together) just let me know... maybe we can all talk to various companies and try to get one big team going (although I imagine that would probably be really hard logistically...).

I'm gonna start working for Porsche in September. So when I have established myself there I might try to get them to start a team!

We'll see... I hope we can get a German team going sometime in the future

[dense]

hey there psychoPhil and 885!

This is team 907, our alliance did great!

Hope you can establish a team in Germany, perhaps have a european regional, then shipping wouldn't cost as much, oh yeah, shipping was prepaid by fedex! and I still have the forms, since i'm the captain, lol, i wonder if i can use them.

-shafi out *static*

[Wetzel]

I wonder if FedEx will contine to prepay for teams once there are European and Brazillian regionals...

Anyways, look forward to more countrys joining first.
And not just the nationals, but the internationals.


Wetzel

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My is that FIRST Flu infectious....

[Daniel Schulze]

hey psychoPhil,
i spoke yesterday with mrs. cook, one of the coordinators in richmond, VA and she arranged the regional there and is also willing to help us making a regional in germany. i also contact the adress from the guy in germany i gave you. you can do this with adress wayne gave you. hopefully we get with this great support from everybody a few teams in germany going.

Daniel !!! I LOVE FIRST

[PsychoPhil]

Originally posted by Wetzel
I wonder if FedEx will contine to prepay for teams once there are European and Brazillian regionals...

It will take a whole while till there will be a european regional. And this year FedEx would have paid for a german team to go to a regional and the nats. Your location doesn't matter....

so long, Phil

[PsychoPhil]

This is just another try to get more nswers by putting the thread again to the beginning up top by posting this...

[Manoel]

Originally posted by PsychoPhil

And this year FedEx would have paid for a german team to go to a regional and the nats. Your location doesn't matter....
so long, Phil

Actually, they wouldn't. FedEx paid for shipping in the US, ie between competitions. The very expensive freight to the drayage site was handled by our generous sponsor, DHL Worldwide Express.

[SlaveOfChernobl]

hello everyone, i am jewish.

[Trashed20]

Originally posted by SlaveOfChernobl
hello everyone, i am jewish.

I'm kinda wondering, what does this have to do with anything at all?

[dense]

lol, so?


(yeah, that's what i was wondering as well)

[David Kelly]

a picture from my website and my name is going to be in Germany's #1 newspaper in the country. they called me today at school and asked for my permission. they are doing a story on FIRST. once it is up, i'll post the link for everyone. i'm not joking about this either.

[Jan Olligs]

Which "Top Newspaper" exactly do you mean? Peoples opoinios differ... Options are (among others) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Welt am Sonntag, Süddeutsche Zeitung (and others).
Just a bit interested...