pic: Robots of Ypsi Fest

[Joe J.]

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[DanDon]

It's really nice to see FIRST teams and there robots involved in the community.

Did you guys get a lot of interest?

[Josh Murphy]

Yes this is pretty cool, we did it last year in the Pontiac Silverdome with no heat in November. The teams that were there were 47,65,67,245,494,1 i'm pretty sure that was all but it was something cool to do because most of the people did not even know what the robots were.

[DanDon]

Are all the robots that were involved in the picture?

[Joe J.]

Mostly. it was a three day demo, I was only there on Sunday. I believe 815 was there one of the other days, along with some FLL teams.

To answer your first question yes there we lots of crowds watching the robots.

[DanDon]

Originally Posted by Philmont629

Mostly. it was a three day demo, I was only there on Sunday. I believe 815 was there one of the other days, along with some FLL teams.

To answer your first question yes there we lots of crowds watching the robots.

Did you have a field set up? Or were you just driving around and shooting/picking up/dumping the poof balls?

[Joe J.]

They had a half field set up Center Goal & 2 Corner Goals.

[anna~marie]

That's really handy
Sorry I don't know the details, but who sponsored this? The city? Did you all contact them, or them you?

(side note: I love how some people I talk to don't believe Ypsi exists! or Kalamazoo!!)

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

(side note: I love how some people I talk to don't believe Ypsi exists!...

Ohh... we exist alright. We exist. Problem is ypsi is overshadowed by Ann Arbor.

[JaneYoung]

Looks like everyone had a good time.
The robots in a row are cool like that.

How do you pronounce Ypsi? Like Yippsee?
That is a fun word.

[anna~marie]

like this:
ip-sil-lan-ti

(I think...lol)
I have a tendency to put the 'Y' at the beginning and so get made fun of

[NEMentor470]

It was sponsored by Team 470, Ypsilanti High School!

Originally Posted by anna~marie

That's really handy
Sorry I don't know the details, but who sponsored this? The city? Did you all contact them, or them you?

(side note: I love how some people I talk to don't believe Ypsi exists! or Kalamazoo!!)

[Allison K]

It was awesome. I particularly enjoyed announcing and human playering. And running around being crazy. And the snackage.

Between the two RCX bots and two vex bots that we brought we went through something like 60 AA batteries in a day and a half.

Does anybody have the picture of Jason and Smita and I giving our robot a group hug after the match that we "won"? Our grown-up adult thought that was entertaining.

We liked it so much we're going to try and pull off something similar at our local festival next year.

Great job those who organized it.

~Allison