The pictures looked great! It was nice seeing all those familiar faces from the documentary.
Team 341 is going to screen the documentary at Ramp Riot 2009, next Saturday. Its our 10th anniversary of our off-season competition and we will have 36 FRC Teams, about 20 FTC teams and lots of kids from the local community.
We are going to run the documentary 3 times on a continuous loop at 11, 12, and 1PM.
The RoboDoves and Ron Karpinski will be there to compete. So, if there are any representatives from the St. Louis or Colorado teams that will be in the Philly area next weekend we would love to have you at the event.
Unfortunately when the documentary first ran it was at 9 PM on our Back to School night, so most people just recorded it. We may try to run the documentary again as a screening for the local community sometime this winter.
Best Wishes to the Gearing Up teams from Maryland, Colorado, and Missouri during the 2010 season.
If anyone will be within the Philly / Ambler, PA area on November 14th and would like to view the documentary **“Gearing Up” **, please stop by RAMP RIOT 2009.
Besides the documentary there will be a ton of fun things to see and do.
I have attached the Ramp Riot promotion sheet and some important links below. Hope you can make this event.
Ramp Riot Thread
Ramp Riot Information Packet
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2291
RR 2009 Flyer_web.pdf (304 KB)
RR 2009 Flyer_web.pdf (304 KB)
From Maryland Public Television:
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>>Hi—I am following up to let you know the upcoming broadcast times for the program “Gearing Up”
MPT December 27 at 5pm
MPT2, January 3 at 10am
We hope you enjoy the show and I will let you know if it is scheduled to air again.
Have a lovely holiday season.<<*
GREAT!!
I also gave Ron Karpinski and the Robodoves a copy of the documentary when they were at Ramp Riot on November 14th. So hopefully everyone on the Robodoves has had a chance to sit down together and watch it.
Ron (my hero) Karpinski has the best lines in the whole documentary. It really illustrates what a great mentor he is!!
Enjoy Maryland!!
For those teams in the Chicago area or those that receive WTTW via cable or satellite, WTTW will be airing Gearing Up on Sunday, January 3, 1:00pm. It’s a great time to get ready for kickoff.
Received this on 11/30/09 after my request for them to offer the show back in September. Thanks Wisconsin Public Television for responding to the request.
From: Collins, Ann <Ann.Collins@wpt.org>
Subject: Gearing Up
To:
Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 3:48 PM[FONT=Arial]This is to let you know the above program will air on Wisconsin Public Television on Wednesday, December 30 at 1 p.m. I hope you are able to see the program at that time.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Ann Collins[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Audience & Member Services[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Wisconsin[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Public Television[/FONT]
And for those people traveling to the NH Kick-off, it will be aired in New Hampshire during the days prior to Kick-off. A nice chance to view it.
I am sure we’ll all be too busy after kick-off to watch any TV for a while. 
Reminder…
Date: 12/30/09
Time: 1:00 PM CST
Where: Wisconsin Public Television
KETC just put the entire documentary up on Youtube yesterday. Here are the links:
Part 1 | Meet the Teamsl
Part 2 | Countdown
Part 3 | Facing Challenges
Part 4 | Regional Competitions
The PBS station put the whole documentary up on Youtube on the 28th. I thought I posted this yesterday, but it’s not showing up for some reason?
Edit: Here’s “Part One”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vytVIv-Rbx4&feature=channel). I had all four linked yesterday, so I can just assume it will show up at some point. 
Thanks for the link! I was disappointed that I couldn’t see it on tv. Excellent documentary.
You can still purchase the DVD. I bought it for my wife for her birthday (yes, alas, we are both geeks), she loved it.
Wow - that was great. I think it will be mandatory viewing for our new teammembers from now on…
I just finished watching and it is by far one of the best pieces of documentation that exemplifies what FIRST is all about. Awesome job.
Addition to my list of teams I want to meet: 1583
Gearing Up will be repeated on Channel 56 (Detroit) at 9:00 tonight, 6/1/10. Your chance to see it again, or if you’re like me for the first time. I missed it the first time around because it was broadcast very early following its release.
Is there any students or mentors that participated on the Gearing Up PBS Documentary still involved with FIRST Robotics, I can not believe it has been more than 5 years. I t would be neat if we all met on a 10 year anniversary on 2018…
Cheers,
Marcos.
Mentors from 2528 - The RoboDoves still involved, including Ron Karpinski. He spent yesterday teaching CAD all day at the annual Baltimore Area Alliance Education Day to benefit teams from all over Maryland.
I am sure that Ron is as awesome as ever. 
He is still one of my FIRST heroes. (no joking around)
I am still around with Team 341. It would be cool to somehow get some kids from the original teams together this year in St. Louis, since that is where it was produced. Just thinking out loud.
Hope all is well with everyone involved.
Al Ostrow
Team 341
It seems like most media representations of FRC sort of get it wrong (it’s a science fair! It’s a demonstration!), but I really liked how this one portrayed FRC.
Does anyone know if some of the 341 members are still around? The head mentor, the guy with the baseball hat and beard and the driver with the long hair all seemed to really be a strong force on the team. It would be cool to know that they stuck around and helped drive the creations of some other great 341 bots.