Aloha!!!
Finally, the ultimate Regional Competition to volunteer for.
I can’t wait to see what the team social will be.
Hawai’ian Social = Luau!
Trust me, we’re all very excited to have you guys here in NJ. We’ll have a ball! And about Hawaii–you’ll have to bug my mentor–his CD name is Wayne C.
(dodges death glance)
Team 151 was at the Kickoff and spoke with Dean Kamen and with Governor Linda Lingle about this idea. It sounds like the door will be open to a limited number of veteran teams. We are interested in the idea.
I hope the limit isn’t too low. The number of veteran teams in Hawaii, however, is relatively small so we’re in the beginning stages of ramping up our recruitment efforts for new teams here.
Being a new NASA sponsored regional, I assume as like this season, that perhaps there will be 10 veteran grants and 10 rookie grants offered. We shall see!
We’d love to come and play in Hawaii.
We planned on making a trip to the midwest next year though, so we’ll see
It’s nice to see FIRST spreading throughout the US. O love to go next year time to start saving.
An excuse to visit my heritage? Sounds good to me!
Wetzel
It depends. I put this on the 1111 team forum and they are really excited about this. They are really looking into coming next year!
OK, just to make sure that nobody gets too far ahead of themselves, we need to clarfiy a few things. The NASA sponsorship of an FRC Regional Competition in 2008 is dependent upon a sufficient number of FRC teams (typically 12) being established in Hawaii in time for the FRC season, and upon FIRST approval and support for the event. So before the Hawaiian regional is a “done deal” the existing teams have some homework to do (where have we heard that before?). Eight more teams have to be created before next year. So each of the four existing teams have some recruiting to do! Use this season as your opportunity to show off your team, your robot, and FIRST. Let all the other schools know what you are doing, invite their students over to see what is going on, and start marketing yourselves.
-dave
Awesome! Good luck to all the teams who will be attending it next year!
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Oh how I wish Florida was not so far away from Hawaii!
It’s great to see the growth of FIRST.
well, the pink team has been known for travelling around the us and canada. if we are welcome and/or invited, we would love to compete in hawaii. i think we were partnered with one of the hawaiian teams when the competition was held in seattle.
aloha
AWESOME Waiakea is probably going to come next year…Our teacher was telling us about it and we were all so exited!
its finally happening! we get a regional that we can afford to attend regularly. its too bad i grad this year. But, its a sure thing that i’ll keep an eye on it next year.
i also sent this out to team 233 and they are all very excited about the possibility of attending (except those graduating of course) we also have a former mentor for our team who is stationed there. hopefully he’ll let us camp out at his house for awhile.
of course i would go to a regional here! it would be a blast to have one. where would we put one? some regoinals are as big as the islands ( 
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While going to Hawaii for a regional in March would be nicer from one in Michigan simply because of the climate;) . I think it would be rather expensive to attend considering airfare to and from here to there and the shipping of the robot. I think that this regional will be a blast and I hope it goes well and good luck Hawaii:)
Its costing us 670 per person round trip from Hawaii to New Jersey for our regional.
BUT Im sure teams who make the effort to come will not regret the stay here in Hawaii. This is a great excuse for teams to visit us here!
Since you are coming to NJ our guys are planning to visit you in Hawaii-
we already have a rally slogan-
“send the shirts home”
WC