I just got invited to one of the BIGGEST Remote Kickoff party in the Metro area; to be held at NJIT on Jan. 8th, 2005. I hope to see a lot CD/FIRST’er there! woo woo… (it’s 12 midnight… do you know where is your KOP?)
January 8, 2005
NJ Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Campus Center Ball Room
New Jersey Institute of Technology
150 Bleecker St.
Newark, NJ 07102
Contact: Randy Schaeffer, randyschaeffer@att.net
Capacity per team: 20
Workshops:
1PM to 3PM
At Kulfarian Hall, NJ Institute of Technology
1 Pneumatics,
2 80-20 System,
3 Getting Organized for Rookies
4 Game Analysis and Robot Design Brainstorming
5 Intro to C-Programming Language
6 Innovation FIRST Controller
This is my first Kick-Off. So how does it work? How man presentations can you go to? Are they scheduled one after another, or are the at the same time?
Here is a basic overview of what information i have:
8:30am to 9:30am – Registration and breakfast
9:30am to 10:00am – Welcome and Introduction
10:00am to 12:00pm – Downlink of kick-off and game unveiling from Manchester, NH
12:00pm to 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30pm to 3:30pm – Workshops
1:30pm to 4:30pm – Kit distribution
Workshop Offerings:
One or more sections of the following workshops will be offered concurrently from 1:30pm to 2:30pm:
Workshops for Veterans and Rookies:
· Pneumatics
· Extruded Aluminum Structural Systems
· Sensors
· Programming the Innovation FIRST Controller
· East Coast Drivers Union: Scouting Teams and Rating Robots
Workshop for Rookies:
· Rookie Workshop – Getting Organized and Game Strategy
Workshop Registration:
· Upon arrival and registration of your team at the kick-off, your team will be given a quantity of tickets to the above workshops equal to the number of attendees from your team (see below).
· Each team’s allotment of workshop tickets will be distributed among the 5 workshops (6 for rookies) listed above. For example – If your veteran team has 15 people attending the kick-off, it will receive 3 tickets for each of the 5 veteran team workshops listed above. The tickets will be needed to gain admission to the workshops.
· Teams may trade tickets during the lunch break to get a distribution of tickets that best meets their interests and needs.
The kit this year will be 5 “boxes”. I would personally recommend you to have a few strong people able to pick them up or to have an equipment moving dolly with you to transport them from the distribution location to your vehicles.
