Introducing August Adventure - a 2-Day New Jersey off-season event!

Teams 25 and 1089 are excited to announce a new, two-day off-season replay of FIRST OVERDRIVE, tentatively titled:

AUGUST ADVENTURE
August 2 & 3, 2008
Hightstown High School
Hightstown, NJ
(Right off of exit 8 off the NJ Turnpike)

This co-hosted event will be open to up to 60 teams, and registration will be $250 per team.

We are planning on a number of activities, which may include an outdoor barbecue/picnic, and possibly a team social at Six Flags Great Adventure, which is minutes from Hightstown High School.

More info as far as activities will be posted as they develop.

Please address all registration inquiries to Wayne Cokeley at [email protected]

I will talk to our advisors tommorow. Hopefully 816 will be attending.

so far we have 4 teams attending- and we’re looking for lots more. Make your plans now.

WC :cool:

Any details on lodging and an exact street address?

There are about 4 major chain hotels in Hightstown, NJ (East Windsor) along Rt 33. This is less than 1 mile from the school. As we get closer we will help with info as requested.

The school is on Leshin Lane in Hightstown, NJ.

Everything is within 1 mile of exit 8 on the NJ Turnpike- right in the center of NJ and halfway between NYC and Philly.

WC :cool:

And also if my team doesnt go is there any way I can volunteer?

I think i might jusy pony up the money out of my pocket so 354 can go!

The exact street address of the school is

Hightstown High School
25 Leshin Lane,
Hightstown, NJ 08520

The school is slightly off the main roads, so directions from 295/195, Rt 130, and the NJ Turnpike will be posted and available closer to the event itself.

I’m sure that a lot of teams have a lot to think about between now and Championships, so we hope to get a bigger response and make a bigger push once that’s over with.

I’d like to see an event as big and as some of the regionals out there, but that might be pie in the sky, being that I don’t know how many teams who can operate at a reasonable capacity during the summer. It should be fun, though! :slight_smile:

Sounds like an awesome time, I’ll ask the captains and mentors.

I plan on making my way down there (if not with my team) then just to possibly volunteer & have quite an Adventure I’m sure!! (pun intended) :stuck_out_tongue:

See everyone there!

If there’s still registration open later on during the summer, I’ll see. Right now we’ve got a whole lot of stuff to worry about. Sounds like fun, though. Keep us posted!

Any teams that are interested on attending or need more information can come to the 1089 pits in Galileo

Hey Wayne!
If we could ship our robot to your school after CMP, we could do this!

-Glenn

Danny, I’m sure I can find something for you to do!
But I’ll let you know when I have more details! =)

We would love to have you guys!
It was so great spending time with you at the NJ Regional last year,
and your team would be an awesome way to get our brand new event off to a great start!
I really hope we can find a way to make this work!

Glenn- we can do that- no problem.

WC

Alright. As soon as you can let me know that would be great. If I am gonna go I will have to let my summer job boss know towards the beginning of summer.

Since many of you have been asking how to sign up, the website is now up and running. I was going to wait for a few days until it was completely done but seeing as people have already started signing up, here it is:

http://www.raiderrobotix.org/aa

You can also join the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14282115409&ref=nf

If there are any concerns towards the website, please let me know. We started making it 2 days ago…

Thanks a ton and we hope to have fun with you at August Adventure.

-Bharat

Interesting…125 may have to make a trip

As of today we have 7 teams on the list- from as far away as Canada.

We need a minimum of 39. Still time to get in on the fun.

Why not make that robot and all the time you put into it have another chance at FIRST Overdrive?

You can even go to all the other events and have the robot become the champ of the entire country-off season circuit.

Register now!!! We are looking for you!!!

WC