Aces High Team #176 Presents the 9th annual
Winter War-Zone Scrimmage
Test Your Robot!
Check out the Official 2007 Field!
Compete With Other Teams!
Team 176 Aces High will host its annual pre-competition scrimmage on Saturday, February 17, 2007. As in the past, we will be using the official FIRST playing field for the 2007 competition season. The event will be held at Suffield High School on Sheldon Street in Suffield from 8:00-4:00. Registration fee is $75 in advance and $100 at the door. Please note that team will be able to pre-order pizza's for lunch.
Or contact Arlene Willett, co-chairman at [email protected] with questions or intent to attend.
Attention FIRST LEGO LEAGUE teams. As an added dimension to this years fun, the Suffield LEGO League teams would like to invite other teams for a post-season scrimmage. This is a free event and all teams are welcome. Please contact Kim Congden at [email][email protected][/email] with your intent to participate or for further information. "http://bionicbulldogs.googlepages.com/scrimmage"
I will strongly suggest to any of the local (and I use that term loosely) teams attend this event. As many of the veteran teams know it is an excellent event even without a fully functional robot, or even no robot at all. This scrimmage will give rookies or new team members an idea of how an event runs and what a formal competition is like. It is also extremely beneficial to see how the game is played and it lets you view some of the kinks or oversights you had about this year’s game. Aces High has done an excellent job in years past putting on a well organized and executed event. (Very worth the long drive across the state.) So even if you aren’t competing I strongly encourage everyone to attend.
If there is any interest in holding a NEMO workshop on any non-technical topic (teambuilding, fundraising, mentor recruitment and retention, team organization, etc.) please contact me and I will check with the scrimmage organizers to see if we can get a room to meet in.
This is a very good event, last year we found a couple things on the bot that needed a little work done. It’s much better to find out early so you can have time to fix it, than later.
There have been attempts in the past, but I don’t think we have done a webcast yet. I will bring it up at our meeting and find out if we can try this year.
Yes we plan to do this again this year. We will send out a link when we get closer to the event.
We’ve webcasted this for probably four or five years now. There were firewall issues in year 1 but with a little push and less pull, we get through that now!
Hope you all enjoy, it is usually our test run for the UTC- New England Regional webcast.
Are there any easy ways to get to the school other than driving, ie Bus terminal or Amtrak, I would like to make it down and see what is going on but I am not sure what the easiest way to get there is.
The nearest amtrak station is a town away. The airport is nearby but you would still need to take a taxi. Suffield doesn’t have any bus transportation we are a small town and our school is out in the middle of nowhere.
I suppose you could fly into Bradley in Windsor Locks and take a taxi. Suffield High is very close to the airport (maybe 6 miles), but in a rural location. Windsor Locks also has an Amtrak station, but that is even farther than the airport (about 8 miles). From Troy, it would only take 90 min to drive and the Mass Pike is Free up to the I91 Exit in West Springfield.
We have never had a reason to limit the number of teams. In past years we have had up to 28 teams registered. If this number gets above 30 we may have to begin to limit the number of teams able to participate.
We never want to limit the number of teams who can participate in this event because of opportunity it gives. However, due to building constraints a limit may be put in place in the future.
I’m pleased to announce that we WILL be holding a NEMO workshop/meeting. Spread the word on your teams that this meeting is free to attend (thanks to the generosity of FRC 176 for hosting it) and is open to any adult/college mentors on any FIRST robotics program team. RSVP to [email protected] with name, program (FRC, FVC, FLL or JFLL), team number, and the topic(s) you’d like to discuss. This is a great way to network with other mentors from the area! Don’t know about NEMO? Visit our website, www.firstnemo.org.
This event its pretty much the best pre-shipdate event you can attend. It is the only pre-season event to use a real FIRST field. Only shot to get some real stick time on the same thing you’ll see at the regionals you attend.
I’m eagerly awaiting this event. See you folks there.