Mission Mayhem 2007

[Arefin Bari]

As the official 2007 FIRST season ends, everything is calming down slowly. But we invite you to get ready for another Mayhem. Let the new members on your team get a taste of a FIRST competition. The Mayhem committee has started to plan on Mission Mayhem 2007.

- The competition will take place on September 8th, 2007.

- The event will be in Miramar, Florida (High school TBA). It will be inside a high school gym this year. So we don't have to worry about rain or flooding. The pits will be in the cafeteria.

- Registration fee is $250. Please email me at arefin.bari@gmail.com for initial registration. We will open up the official registration next month.

- Team limit is 35 teams. Please register as soon as possible.

- If you would like to volunteer for the event, please send me an email (arefin.bari@gmail.com) with your job preferences (Field reset, scoring, referee, crowd control, volunteer registration, team registration, field setup/breakdown), first and last name, email address, contact number, the high school/college/company you are represent.

- If you have a practice robot that a high school (interested in starting a team next year) can borrow, please let us know.

- As we get close to the date, I will post a list of restaurants, hotels and food availabilities at the event.

Finally, here is a little contest for all the artists out there in the FIRST community. We are looking for a logo and we need your help. In the previous two years, Jaine Perotti (an alumni of team 716) has come up with a wonderful logo. You can see both logos and get an idea of what we are looking for (Thanks to Bharat Nain and team 25 for hosting the files). The FIRST logo and DeVry University logo must be present in the Mayhem logo.

We are looking forward to see the Mayhem teams are going to create this year. Let's not have the nature create the Mayhem this time.

-Arefin Bari.