Hats off to the Cal Games 04 Volunteer

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To WRRF community, Cal Game 04 Teams and volunteers,

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the volunteers at this year’s event.  Without you this competition would not have been such a success last weekend.  All of you surprised me with your eagerness to dedicate your time and effort to Cal Games and this community.  It was wonderful working with such a fine group of people.  I hope all of you had tons of fun at the event, I know I did!

My Deepest Thanks to the Cal Games 04 Volunteer,
-Ken Leung
Cal Games 04 Manager

California Robot Games 2004 Volunteers:

Host Team & Advisor…….…………………………… Team 100 & Arlene Kolber & Woodside High School

Cal Games Planning Committee………………………. Steve Bronstein (115),Norma Hammes, Ken Krieger, Jim Beck (FIRST), Sanford Fitch

Logistic Managers……………………………………… Dave Frydenlund (100), Tim McCay (192), Steve Bronstein (115), Ken Krieger

Field Supervisor………………………………………… John Hodgson II

Field Shipping & Handling……………………………. Jim Beck (FIRST)

Awards………………………………………………… Norma Hammes

Master of Ceremony…………………………………… Mark Leon

Announcer……………………………………………… Dan Green from Illinois

Registration Table……………………………………… Ceal Craig (1120), Valerie Taylor, Jason Katzer

Concession……………………………………………… Carl Rago (100), Team 100, Team 766

Electronics & Field Power……………………………… Ken Krieger

Audio/Visual……………………………………………. Steve Bronstein (115)

Loading/Unloading……………………………………… Tim McCay, Ken Krieger, Dave Frydenlund (100), The Gold Family, Patrick Wang, Dan

Chang (1120), Team 192

Event Setup……………………………………………… Team 100, 115, 192, 254, 481,766, 840, 1072, 1120, 1458

Event Cleanup…………………………………………… Team 100, 192, 840, 968, 1120

Score Keeper…………………………………………… Dima Y.

Inspector………………………………………………… Albert Wu, Jim Gold, & the team mentors who volunteered at the event

Head Referee…………………………………………… Patrick Wang

Referee………………………………………………… Alan Federman, Bill Gold, Larry Wang

Special Guest referee…………………………………… Andy Baker from Indiana

Team Queuing…………………………………………. Tim Craig (1120), Stephanie Studebaker, Shannon Leyh

Field Reset……………………………………………… Andrew Burgos (701), Bryan Gray (701), Eric Brummer (1097), Team 192, Team 980

Driver Obstacle Course………………………………… Bill Gold, Team 481

Autonomous Mode Challenge………………………… Team 1458

Human Player Challenge……………………………… Andrew Burgos (701), Bryan Gray (701), Team 192 volunteer

Photographer…………………………………………… Peter Yim (840)

Music DJ……………………………………………… Jim Gold

Cal Games 04 Credit.pdf (8.35 KB)


Cal Games 04 Credit.pdf (8.35 KB)

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A HUGE thank you should go out to Ken as well.

I had no involvement in the planning of Cal Games this year, but Ken always works his tail off to make it a fantastic event, and I’m sure this year was no different.

Thanks for all you do for the WRRF, and all of FIRST, Ken!!!

Cory

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Yes! Thanks to all that made it possible. It was a great event.

Amit

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The Cal Games Volunteers and WRRF did a wonderful job of putting on an awesome event. I was happy that, this year, our team managed to contribute during the event day. Hopefully, we will be able to do more to contribute to Cal Games next year.

The facility for the event is first class. Thank you to Team 100 for making this venue available, and thank you to all the northern California teams for making us feel at home. Our whole team had a great time.

Thanks also to our alliance captain, Team 1280 - Raging Sea Biscuits, and to our other alliance partner, Team 1351 - AMHS Robotics Team. Great job! Hope to partner with you folks again soon.

Lastly, thank you Ken Leung for being the ring leader and bringing everything together in a great event!

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I just want to hear about the rumor that a prominent volunteer had their car locked in the school grounds and had to leave it there overnight.

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Well, that would be me. The good people of California showed a couple of us midwesterners around after the competition was over. I learned what a “sushi boat” was. When we came back to the school to get my car, the parking lot gates were locked. I bummed a ride from Ken Leung the next morning and this gave me a chance to help the WRRF crew load the playing field into a temporary storage facility until the RoboNexus.

As for the Cal Games (back on topic), it was a great competition. They had an impressive assembly of quality robots and competitive teams. It was obvious that many teams worked hard to make improvements to their robots as they geared up for this competition. Some 'bots had new arms, while others were trying out new gearboxes. Even the rookie teams competed like season veterans.

It was a great day at Cal Games. Woodside had great food, and the facility was very nice. The event organizers ran things efficiently while keeping the mood friendly and comfortable, but still competitive. Thanks to Patrick Wang and Bill Gold for letting me help as a ref. Thanks to Ken Leung and Jason Morrella for hauling me around the greater Palo Alto area. Good job to all of the WRRF crew!

Andy B.

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Imagine my surprise, when I got this phone call from Dan Green, at 11:51pm that Andy Baker, the most highly looked-up-to person in FIRST, is at his hotel because Andy’s car was locked up at Woodside High School after we went out to dinner with the rest of the gang.

Fortunately I got my driver’s license just a month or two ago, so I was able to pick Andy up at 8:30am, and drafted him to help unload the playing field into storage to repay the ride bringing him back to his precious rental car.

You certainly don’t see that happening at every competition… Probably only happen whenever a midwest-er come out to visit a California competition. Not that I am trying to make fun of them or anything.

:smiley: :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks to Ken Leung for pulling together a great event. I’m looking forward to being done lugging around all of that heavy stuff after RoboNexus.

I’m glad you had a fun time out here Andy. It was great “working” with you at the event (since it was more fun than work), and it was nice of you to join Jim, Patrick, KenL, and myself at the “kid’s table” at Miyake ;).

“HOWARD DEAN WOULD DRINK THIS, [DANG IT]!”
-Jason Morrella trying to get people to Sake-Bomb :D:D:D

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Fact check:
I said that to encourage “you”, not “people” - you crazy left wing extremist hippy tree hugger promoting honesty in government, peace and security in the world, and war only when it’s necessary as a last resort. You nut Bill. I was not promoting Howard Dean - I just knew he was someone you admire.

If I was trying to motivate some upper class right wing extremist who feels it’s OK to fabricate information and mislead the country to send other peoples kids to war (not their kids of course - rather a normally high percentage of kids which are from the lower and middle class, frequently minorities), meanwhile arguing they should pay less taxes because they just can’t quite get by on a few million while at the same time increasing spending in utter fiscal irresponsibility so future generations are in historic debt, and feel it’s important for Uzis and assault rifles to be sold over the counter (because you never know when deer and elk may rise up and arm themselves) -
then I would have said “George Bush would drink this”.

Was just catering to the intended audience Bill - in that case, it was you. :wink:

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