So, the regional is in two weeks. Who’s excited??
Which teams are going to be in attendence?
375 - The Robotic Plague will be there with Rambo.
Just a quick note: Team lists are on FIRST’s website.
Yea, but I wanted to spark a discussion about the regional, :p.
How could I not be excited?
I can’t wait to see the regulars, new teams, and our buddies from england (759) in their annual trip. I’m also psyched that I will be hearing the Brazilian national anthem be played it NYC (def my first time hearing it in NYC)-- and see what that team came up with on their <ENVY>summer break</ENVY>. 
I’m hoping we can give the type of strong performance that we gave last year in GALI-LEO, but that will be determined on how smoothly things go in our first regional-- Hartford.
Congrats to 2Train team 395 on being 1st seed and winning the Pittsburgh Regional!
Your team continually sets high standards in representing NYC teams in outside our regional.
See you guys at Riverbank State Park in 1.5 weeks!
I was very glad to see familiar faces as well up in the Hartford UTC Regional, where we were: I saw Team 1597’s Stacy Weaver on Friday, who led her VEX team to the quarterfinals and team 375’s Mike Seigel on Saturday, who was scouting.
Yon
I was there too! John Park, Senior Mentor - NYC. Congratulations to all the NYC from NYC who participated in Hartford. We’re looking forward seeing you guys at Riverbank.
wow the NYC Regional is slightly over a week away - boy does time fly =)
And here’s me thinking that we had 5 days left. 
Does anyone have the full directions for parking at Riverbank State Park?
#9 Today, 07:04 PM
mom1155
Does anyone have the full directions for parking at Riverbank State Park?
Would you like the text or the 3-D map?
Link to 3-D map:
http://nycfirst.poly.edu/forum/showthread.php?t=415
Could you send the text as well? Thanks!
The pdf file of the directions to NYC FIRST Riverbank State Park is now attached:
http://nycfirst.poly.edu/forum/showthread.php?p=702#post702
Best Wishes, see everyone Thursday!
I really hope I’ll get there again! I’m planning on at least Saturday!
NYC is a really fun regional, and I had a blast the last time I went. ~_^
Come!! Maybe bring some team members. And if you do, stop by our pits. The regional should be great…the atmosphere is awesome with 33 teams cramped into such a small space ;).
Can’t wait to see everyone there!!
Let’s all wish for great weather so we can put the practice field outside the pit area.
And with several of the NYC Teams already played at other regionals (AND WIN!), the competition is going to be awesome.
Also four NYC teams are competing at the Long Island Regional this coming week!
Good luck to them too!!!
Reminder: NYC Regional opens EARLY on Thursday at 7:45AM; don’t be late.
my team just realized that we never got the chance to slow our gun down to the allowable speed so i was wondering if any of the teams who are going to be at NYC would be willing to let us borrow whatever radar gun or other means you used to measure the ball velocity so that we can slow that stuff down Thursday morning.
thanks
-Simon, 1155
Hey Simon,
According to FIRST, there will be an photogate speed trap at each regional for voluntary and requested speed testing.
Got a video camera? Take pictures of the ball coming out of the shooter (on the practice field, of course), with a clearly marked yard stick (a meter stick would be better) behind it. Each video frame is 1/30 of a second, so at 12 meters per second, you should see 12/30 = 0.4 meters per video frame.
Don
The above two answers are great. But if that fails go see Mike Siegel from Team 375. I hear he’s got a custom velocity tester built into him: 375 Ball Velocity Tester
See you guys at Riverbank
-wayne
Dear 2006 NYC Regional Teams,
With the NYC Regional just one day away, I hope that everyone is
excited for some great robot action as well as stories to be heard and
shared.
On behalf of the NYC FIRST Planning Committee and Team 395,
2TrainRobotics, I would like to invite your teams to the NY Team
Social this Friday Evening immediately following the Award ceremony. I
apologize for this short notice, but we’re doing everything that we can
for the betterment of the regional and for our students to enjoy
themselves and get to interact with one another.
At the team social we plan to offer “DINNER &a MOVIE” on the big
screen, pizza and soda, and movie choices are Short Circuit (featuring
Johnny 5) or Batteries Not Included, both family friendly movies about
robots. Following the movie we will have our, TEAM RELAY
RACES/GAMES, as well as SPOOF TEAM AWARDS tentatively titled the Magic
Smoke Awards: Best Secret Design Award, Most Poof Balls in Unintended
Places, Greatest Number of Volunteers Hit with Poof Balls during play,
Precision Engineering Award (best use of a hammer), Duct Tape is Not
the Answer Awards for example. **Thanks Evan of 1230 for the
suggestions. Events will be from ~ 5:30-8:00 PM.
What I need from you in an e-mail response ASAP so we can make
provision estimates. Forms and agenda will also be available on Thursday.
They will be collected by early afternoon by the PIT adminstrator.
==============================================
Team Information for NYC Social:
Team #: ______
Will your team be participating in the Team Social:_____
Total # of People Attending:_______
Ideas for Awards, inside jokes for your team, funny personal stories
about a team member/mentor:_____
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In addition we ask that participating teams:
-Get the information out to your teams
-Bring one (or more item to share), chips, cookies, pretzels, baked
goods, drinks, plates, cups, napkins, ice, coolers, etceteras. This
will be coordinated via e-mail after we get initial responses.
-Donate one Team Shirt (autographed if possible by the team) to be
given away as part of prizes.
-If you have a mentor that is driving a car, would he or she be willing
to help us pick up pizzas/other items prior to the event? It looks
like we’ll be running to several different places so that we do not
overwhelm one pizza place.
-Students to help us cleanup afterwards
Please feel free to e-mail me with questions and let me know if your
team would like to take a more active role in assisting with the
Social. We’re looking forward to a great Regional Competition both on
and off the field. See you at Riverbank!
Best,
Wayne Penn
wrp2003@columbia.edu