Mini-ME Comes to the NJ Regional

[mrs. z]

Greetings Teams!!!

We are pleased to welcome you all to the new academic year! We hope your summer break was restful and you are by now ready to get set for a great 2009 FIRST! Robotics Competition Season! This email is being sent to all registered New Jersey teams and the out-of-area teams that have signed up for this year’s event.

The New Jersey Regional is once again being held at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton from February 26th through the 28th. There are exciting plans in the makings and I would like to share a few of them with you!

First, I would like to announce a new contest that we will be running this year. I wanted to get this out to you all early for a few reasons. First, to give your teams something fun to do before the build season starts and second, to give you plenty of time to get it done!

The contest is, to build a mini-MEntor! Here are the guidelines:

1) Pick your favorite mentor or a team member that all look up to.

2) Design a statue of this person using all of those spare parts that we all have hanging around.

3) Bring it with you to the NJ Regional. We will have displays of all the mini-MEntors, maybe a parade across the playing field, voting for the best, and a special prize/award for the best mini-MEntor!

4) Bring a poster with a few paragraphs explaining why this particular person was chosen to be immortalized. (it could sway the voting!)

5) Since this is a mini-MEntor, and will need to be transported, please build it no taller than 2 feet and try to keep the weight below 30 pounds.

That’s all of the rules. How you build your mini-MEntor, what capabilities it has, and how fancy it is are all up to you. Make it walk and talk, if you want. Have it deliver a message to all those in attendance, it can sing, it can dance, it can juggle, it can do whatever you want it to do BUT, please make sure that whatever it does represents the person it is patterned after. For any other information, please contact me and I will be glad to help

John Giardina
NJ FRC Committee Chair

PHONE: ( (732) 524-2666 · MOBILE: (732) 718-3734
E-MAIL: * jgiardi@its.jnj.com OR gzrobot@gmail.com