Brazilian Teams may need technical help

[Mandi_|<o>|]

Thanks Williane,
all the contacts are available now,
Guilherme is working on a new forum, from brfirst, it will be better=D
Thank you very much=D

[Williane]

Originally Posted by Mandi_|<o>|

Thanks Williane,
all the contacts are available now,
Guilherme is working on a new forum, from brfirst, it will be better=D
Thank you very much=D

You are right, it may be better so you don't have too many people in your team's forum. Thanks for offering.

We will keep adding more contacts here...

[Nate Edwards]

Originally Posted by Williane

Hi Mandi,

I am working on a list with all contacts to give to Ana, Guilherme, and Ivan. They will give the list to the teams in Brazil and allow teams to contact mentors directly.

I understand that some will not use the forum since not everyone has fast internet connection there. They can use emails or MSN.

The students and mentors that are offering to help know the barrier with the language and they will be fine if we have treads in Portuguese only. No one should worry about writing in English. We can have the English speaker mentors helping those that can communicate in English and the other helping whoever speaks Portuguese... it is something new to me also, we will figure out the best way together.

Thanks for offering your forum. Would you please copy the posts here in your forum? It will be easier to me to keep track of one place only…


Here is a list of contacts we have until now:

Mechanical

- Caio, 1510 Manager & Mech Leader, Portuguese,
Aim: Cowonthego, Yahoo: Cowonthego, MSN: ccyberdude@hotmail.com

- Zoheb N, 118 Captain, English, PM

- Brandon, 125 (formally of team 11) Mentor, English, mortgeek@gmail.com

Autodesk Inventor

- Brandon, 125 (formally of team 11) Mentor, English, mortgeek@gmail.com

- Caio, 1510 Manager & Mech Leader, Portuguese,
Aim: Cowonthego, Yahoo: Cowonthego, MSN: ccyberdude@hotmail.com

Programming

- Gustavo, 108 Programmer, Portuguese, intellec7@hotmail.com

- Mike Betts, 177 Mentor, English, betts@isp.com

Electrical & Electronics

- Mike Betts, 177 Mentor, English, betts@isp.com

Strategy & Intelligence

- Guy Davidson, 8 Strategy & Intelligence Captain, English, PM

Please give your area of expertise:

- Nate Edwards, 957 Mentor, area ?, edwardsnb@gmail.com

Strategy, Electrical, Programming, Mechanical and Team Organization are my focuses. I am a drive Coach for 957 but I am an Electrical Engineer in college and help out as a rules expert and on teaching the right skills to make the robot go. Any of these fields I can help out with, I think I could make a positive impact.

Thanks
Nate

[DonRotolo]

Just between us folks, I don't think anyone will have a problem with the occasional thread in Portuguese. Anyone who doesn't understand can always go to Babelfish or the like to get the gist.

On the other hand, I simply cannot imagine not having the KOP by even now, that is a HUGE disadvantage. In the future, perhaps FIRST can pre-ship them some weeks early to a neutral in-country location, and they get shipped to teams from there at kickoff. Ditto other locations where inbound Customs might be an issue.

Don

[Caio]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Just between us folks, I don't think anyone will have a problem with the occasional thread in Portuguese. Anyone who doesn't understand can always go to Babelfish or the like to get the gist.

On the other hand, I simply cannot imagine not having the KOP by even now, that is a HUGE disadvantage. In the future, perhaps FIRST can pre-ship them some weeks early to a neutral in-country location, and they get shipped to teams from there at kickoff. Ditto other locations where inbound Customs might be an issue.

Don

I completely agree that something needs to be done, but from what I've heard from talking to brazilian teams in the past is that this isn't the first time. Of course, this is the longest i believe its ever taken, but they do receive their kits late often. I wish FIRST or the Brazilian gov't would do something about it... like you said, it puts them at a huge disadvantage.

[GaryVoshol]

Perhaps giving all Brazilian teams a later ship date this year, maybe 28 February. It couldn't make up for all the time or the robot wouldn't make it to the competition venue on time. But since every team has been delayed, that would seem a fair accomodation.

[Williane]

List updated - Jan 25

Wow! You guys are great

Mechanical

- Caio Tenca, 1510 Manager & Mech Leader, Portuguese,
Aim: Cowonthego, Yahoo: Cowonthego, MSN: ccyberdude@hotmail.com
- Zoheb N, 118 Captain, English, PM
- Brandon, 125 (formally of team 11) Mentor, English, mortgeek@gmail.com
- Nate Edwards, 957 Mentor, English, edwardsnb@gmail.com
- Liz S., 555 mechanical, English, IM Pika1579, Pika1579
- Cody Carey, Captain 306, English, IM Y cool_clarinet_dude

Autodesk Inventor

- Brandon, 125 (formally of team 11) Mentor, English, mortgeek@gmail.com
- Caio Tenca, 1510 Manager & Mech Leader, Portuguese,
Aim: Cowonthego, Yahoo: Cowonthego, MSN: ccyberdude@hotmail.com
- Brent Espenship, 2002 Mentor, English, brent.espenship@autodesk.com
- Cody Carey, Captain 306, English, IM Y cool_clarinet_dude

Programming

- Gustavo, 108 Programmer, Portuguese, intellec7@hotmail.com
- Mike Betts, 177 Mentor, English, betts@isp.com
- Nate Edwards, 957 Mentor, English, edwardsnb@gmail.com
- James Brown, 1568 Mentor, English, brownj12@rpi.edu

Electrical & Electronics

- Mike Betts, 177 Mentor, English, betts@isp.com
- Al Skierkiewicz, 111 Mentor, English, askierkiewicz@wttw.com
- Nate Edwards, 957 Mentor, English, edwardsnb@gmail.com
- James Brown, 1568 Mentor, English, brownj12@rpi.edu
- Cody Carey, Captain 306, English, IM Y cool_clarinet_dude

Game rule expert/Strategy

- Guy Davidson, 8 Strategy & Intelligence Captain, English, AIM thexnextdoor, MSN guydav2002@yahoo.com
- Nate Edwards, 957 Mentor, English, edwardsnb@gmail.com
- James Brown, 1568 Mentor, English, brownj12@rpi.edu

Purchase and Shipping

- James Brown, 1568 Mentor, English, brownj12@rpi.edu

[JamesBrown]

I don't know why I hadn't already seen this thread, I would be more than happy to help with Programming, Strategy or electronics. Also I can order parts/materials that companies wont ship to brazil and then ship them to you. brownj12@rpi.edu is my email address, unfortunatly I only speak english.

[anotherforrokid]

so tem eu de brasileiro no nosso time 1230
se presisarem de ajuda e so chamar
se alguem for pra regional de nova york me avisem
vamos representar o brasil la

[Williane]

Yes, it is a problem with customs for all kits. I don't know a lot of details; maybe someone else can help with that.

Looking at the bright side it is good that it happened because now the Brazilian government will have one more reason to get involved with FIRST.

Their teams are doing are very good job to spread FIRST and help each other, but as everything that is new, they will face many problems in the beginning. Once FIRST start having regional competitions in more countries, they will also be ready for what can happen.

In some way this situation will only make it easier for the teams in the future and help make FIRST stronger!

[ZackCraig]

Well Team 1856 has extra supplies that we would gladly ship out if anyone needs them.

[santosh]

The CircuitRunners are in for sure. If you guys need anything at ALL, let us know. We can help technically, organizationally, etc.
Thanks.