Israeli team asking for volunteers to drive their robot at Champs

[pandamonium]

I am an alumni who mentors our teams strategy and Drive team. We have a very good secondary team who really want as much experience as possible. They would really enjoy this opportunity and I can guarantee they will do a great job.

We have a very skilled driver who is a senior. She has won 2 off season events with different robots. She is very good at adapting to different controls and is a quick learner.

We also have a coach that has been itching to get more field time. He loves strategy and eats, sleeps, and breaths first.

I can get you video of them driving and perhaps give them a chance to interview for this role. I have a feeling you will have a ton of interest and may need to hold try outs!

I am really excited about this!

[Ryan Himmelblau]

This sounds like an amazing idea. Being Jewish myself I can really sympathies with 3358. I have posted this link on my team's forums, and will talk with them about this at our next class meeting. We always take a large number of students down to worlds and I'm sure some of them would love to help.

Personally, I can volunteer to help out with any of their mechanical needs. (At my Scouting Mentor's discretion of course)

[JaneYoung]

Leav,

When you get the team put together that will represent 3358, please post here in CD with their information. Also, please post a photo of the 3358 teams together. This is so cool.

Jane

[Jon236]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Leav,

When you get the team put together that will represent 3358, please post here in CD with their information. Also, please post a photo of the 3358 teams together. This is so cool.

Jane

Jane,

You should have been there a couple of years ago when I introduced Greg Needel's team to 2214, the Yamin Orde Youth Village. The kids from 2214 were virtually all Ethiopians, so they were very tall, very black and very Jewish. Greg's kids were all short Afro-American Baptists. As I pointed out....'now, you probably thought all Jews are white.' FIRST is great at impacting culture!

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Jon236

Jane,

You should have been there a couple of years ago when I introduced Greg Needel's team to 2214, the Yamin Orde Youth Village. The kids from 2214 were virtually all Ethiopians, so they were very tall, very black and very Jewish. Greg's kids were all short Afro-American Baptists. As I pointed out....'now, you probably thought all Jews are white.' FIRST is great at impacting culture!

Jon,

I would have loved to have been there. I remember some of the posts and stories you have shared with us about the experiences you have had. They have all made me smile and very happy to see so much positive impact occurring.

@Alan - your wife has an awesome sense of humor.

Jane

[pandamonium]

I believe that there areas many as 6 teams from Israel registered is this a problem only one team is experiencing?

[Leav]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

I believe that there areas many as 6 teams from Israel registered is this a problem only one team is experiencing?

6 teams are indeed attending the championship, but this is only a problem for one of them since only one team is comprised of religious students.

If you'd like to know more - wikipedia, As always, proves to be a good source of information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Israel
I can give you the short version right now: we're a complicated country...



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Regarding finalizing the team:
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I'm going on vacation for the weekend (Thursday-Saturday), so I'll leave this open until Sunday.
On Sunday I'll contact everyone who volunteered (anyone who has posted here or contacted me via PM by then) we can work together to build the best volunteer team to help 3358!

Thanks again for volunteering... you are all reminding me why I love this community and FIRST so much

[Leav]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Leav,

When you get the team put together that will represent 3358, please post here in CD with their information. Also, please post a photo of the 3358 teams together. This is so cool.

Jane

I'll be sure to do that, and I agree: this is so cool



CRITICAL UPDATE!
Jon has reminded me that the volunteers can't be jewish themselves (if they were then it would be as if 3358 was asking another jewish person to break jewish tradition)!
so this is a bit weird, but i'm going to have to ask that jewish people do not volunteer... (this is a bit awkward...)

To everyone reading this:
I am going to give everyone a day to think about this before we start working on finalizing the team.
so if you want to help: talk to your team, make sure you can, and post here.

[viperred396]

I will pass this along to our drive team! This seems to be a great way to get some people involved who would not normally go to CMP

[karomata]

Hi,

My mentor, pandamonium, mentioned me earlier. I'm the secondary coach for my team, 1511, and i have received approval to help your team if you'd like. I can coach and i am also an eletrical pit student, so i could help there, but my main focus is on coaching. I was also part of the presenting crew that won chairman's in Washington DC.

heres my email adress:
moelhelw@gmail.com
I'd love to help you guys out.
thanks
karomata

[superbotman]

I am fortunate enough to have my whole team going, so I can not totally abandon them, but if you want any help I would love to. I expect I will not be doing much in my pit anyways.

Good Luck!

[Matt704]

I am going to the world championships because I am a Dean's List Finalist.

I would defiantly be willing to help you help.
I have been the team driver for team 704 for the past 5 years and I do have championship experience.

If you would like my help you can e-mail me at matt17@sbcglobal.net

If you would like to see some of my driving here is a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyUM9LV7O0

[thedries]

MORT will also be traveling with a pair of eager alternate drivers to St. Louis, as well as capable pit crew members. I will have to speak with them to see if they would be willing to donate their time. This is an interesting situation and we would love to help out in any way we can. I will get back to you when I know more.

[superbotman]

We will give you
2 drivers
1 coach
1 human player
and they will be trained because we have a shadow bot

[Koko Ed]

Leav also has requested that teams sign his team flag that was left at the side of Curie last season that I will be returning to another Isreali team at St. Louis. It's an Isreali national flag but he said it's ok (I hope it is) . I will leave it at the side of the field with a couple of fabric markers for anyone who is on Curie or Archimedes to feel free to sign for them.