Any available practice fields in Mid-Michigan?

FIRST General Forum
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I’d like to first Thank each of you. Your posts have helped our team immensely.

We are in the middle of Michigan and our team is searching for a practice field to use. Hoping for next Friday or the weekend.

Could travel to Saginaw, Midland, Genessee, Ingham or Shiawassee counties.

Thank you.

Ovid-Elsie High School Robotics team 5234
“The Marauderbots”

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It is entirely possible that Team 2619 (Dow High, Midland MI) will have a mostly complete practice field by that time.

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We have a 1/4 size practice field in Saginaw with 5 of the 9 defenses built (still working on the others) that you’re welcome to come and use.

Alternatively, our parent organization, FIRST of the Great Lakes Bay Region, has a 90% field with basically all field elements (including some made to the metal, competition spec) in their facility in Midland (it’s also home to teams 2619, 5509, and 5424).
EDIT: Cam beat me too it.

You’re welcome to come to either of these locations any time we’re there, we just ask you let us know ahead of time.

Also, though I can’t speak to their policy on guests (though I assume they’re open to having you come as well), Kettering University in Flint has a full size, competition spec playing field (though it’s possible some/most of the game-specific elements are the wooden team versions). That said, I suspect they will also be VERY busy next weekend as a LOT of teams use that facility.

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Thank you for your replies. Do you have any contact information that I could contact to ask for available times?

Again, thank you.

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For my team, use this link:
http://www.team703.com/contact-us.html

For GLBR, use this one:
http://www.first-glbr.org/contact-us.html

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It is a little far from you but 2959 still has an opening for our pre-bag event. We are in Coloma, MI. We will be running it next saturday.

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Thank you all for your responses. I’ve sent out an email to Greater Bay Region. Hoping to hear back from them. If not, we’ll keep the others in mind.

Have a fantastic season everyone!

Can’t wait.

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You should be getting a response from them soon, if not, send me a PM and I can ask them about it myself.

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We got a gracious reply and a formal invite for this Saturday. So, thank you again. Looking forward to this opportunity.

Team 5234

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Thank you to teams 2619, 5424, and 5509 at the FIRST of the Great Lakes Bay Region for allowing us to utilize your field this past Saturday. It was a tremendous help for us to practice and learn quite a bit. We hope one day we too can return a favor like this to you. Or, at least be able to mimic your willingness to help others as FIRST inspires us to do.

Again, Thank YOU!

Team 5234
Ovid-Elsie High School
Marauderbots