In partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and many Pittsburgh-area FRC team representatives, the Steel City Robotics Alliance is very excited to announce the first-ever Pittsburgh FRC off-season event: Steel City Showdown! This event will be held in the Wiegand Gym in the Cohon University Center on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University on Saturday August 5.
The tournament registration fee is just $100, and boxed lunches will be provided to all registered team members, mentors, and coaches. You just have to get your team down to CMU and play FIRST STEAMWORKS with us! As an added benefit, we are also planning to offer free guided tours of the CMU Robotics Institute.
Who? Up to 24 FRC teams will play STEAMWORKS for the Steel City Showdown title
**When? ** Saturday August 5, 2017. Teams will be able to load in the night before. Doors will open at 7:00AM and qualification matches will begin at 8:45AM. We are planning to offer each team six qualification matches. The event should wrap up by 6:00PM. We are also planning to offer guided tours of the CMU Robotics Institute during lunch break!
Where? Wiegand Gym in the Cohon University Center on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University
Costs? Registration will be $100 per team. Boxed lunches will be available for free to all registered team members, mentors, and coaches.
If you are not already a member, please take a few moments and join the Steel City Robotics Alliance mailing list. You can do so on our website (www.steelcityrobotics.com). Also check out SCRA on Facebook (www.facebook.com/groups/SteelCityRoboticsAlliance)
Volunteers needed! Please fill out this Google form if you are interested in volunteering at the Steel City Showdown on August 5!
That depends on our final numbers. With 5 or 6 alliances, we will run a round-robin playoff followed by a best-of-three matchup between the top two finishers. If manage to get to 7 alliances, we will run a regular elimination tournament and give the top qualifier alliance a bye in the first round.
We currently have 16 teams registered for the event, meaning there are still 8 open spots. The event is coming up very soon, so if you want to attend, please register soon.
STREAM? You mean the 1836 coined addition of “Relationships” to STEAM as one of our chairmans oriented efforts? As much as I like the plug, that’s probably a typo.
There are two pre-rookie teams, Trinity and Matrix, both of whom will be using robots they built at CMU’s Robotics Feiyue summer camp. We start them off with a driving chassis, and they do the rest in a two-week build.
There will also be collaborative robot project, where students from all of the competing teams are invited to work together to build a new competition robot on site. We’re calling this team the Red Card Rumblers.
The list of registered teams on the website is slightly out of date, here is the complete list:
117 Steel Dragons
291 CIA - Creativity In Action
1317 Digital Fusion
1708 Amp’D Robotics
2614 MARS
2656 Quasics
3260 SHARP
3504 Girls of Steel
3511 Road Dogs
4121 Viking Robotics
4269 CardinalBots
4467 Titanium Titans
5418 The Sonic Screwdrivers
5806 Basement Lions
6414 Voyager
9996 Red Card Rumblers (collaborative on-site build)
9997 Mars beta (2614)
9998 Robotics Feiyue Trinity
9999 Robotics Feiyue Matrix
IMO, FIRST needs to take note of some really nice trophy examples coming out of Ohio/Western PA and perhaps make some changes, especially to those ever-shrinking RCA and Winners trophies!
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