Hi Everyone!
The field is almost done and we are looking forward to a great event on Saturday!
We are still looking for people to volunteer to be referees. Please let me if you are interested here. You can also log onto www.team341.com and go to the volunteer sign up page under “Ramp Riot” Its quick and easy.
We’ll make sure you get a Crew shirt and a few good meals!
Thanks for considering this late request.
Webcast of Ramp Riot Matches and Seminars:
Team 1511 is packing up and heading out this evening! See you all tomorrow! The students are very excited! Several parents are travelling with us for the first time! We can’t wait to play again with all of our favorite Phily area teams! 
No audio on the webcast =\
Audio’s working for me. I forgot how hard Lunacy is to follow when you can’t glue your eyes to one robot.
Thank you to all of the teams, volunteers, parents, and special visitors who made the 10th edition of Ramp Riot live up to its billing!
I want to offer even more thanks to some special people who lent exceptional advice and help in getting our field up and running while avoiding most of the problems that plagued some off season events this year. Our only major hiccup was when somebody tripped over my computer’s power cable and I had to reboot FMS. We were scheduled to finish elimination rounds at 5:00PM; I shut down FMS after Finals match 2 at 4:59
Jeff Downs - Your knowledge and insight into running a FIRST field is unparalleled! Thanks for all of the emails, software, and phone calls that got us ready to run!
Pete Kieselbach - You are one of the major reasons why Ramp Riot works. Whether an FTA, referee, or head ref, you run events the way they are supposed to be run. We announced this when giving Pete a well-deserved volunteer award, but just so the Chief Delphi community knows it: On Pete’s Ramp Riot Volunteering Form, under “Why would you like to volunteer?”, he answered “Because I don’t learn from my mistakes”.
Ron Karpinski - Thanks for all of your help setting up and verifying that things were working, and for making sure that everybody had working WPA.
Rob Thate and NASA GSFC - Like I told Rob, anybody can bring a PC to run the field, but not everybody has a full FIRST field in their truck. We can never repay our debt to NASA and Rob for helping us out each and every year.
Team 2791 would like to thank 341 for putting on a great event. We would also like to thank team 1511 for giving us a transmission to fix our intake, and teams 834 and 1218 for winning the event with us. Can’t wait to return next year!
Jack
Team 1511 is home safe from the event and also wants to thank Team 341 for their hospitality! It was fun to play with some old friends and some new friends! It was a great chance for our students to mix up the drive teams, and to give the beta test system a tryout.
I had a great time as a referee, but boy, are my feet tired!
Today, four of the five car loads (one had to get home earlier) headed into Philadelphia and took the chance to see the Liberty Bell and a few of the sights within walking distance. I had a chance to go a little farther south and sample a Geno’s cheese-steak!
Now you all need to come up and see us!
Sounds good to me! I would love to go back to my “other home” (RIT alum 
)
On behalf of MOE 365, we want to thank Miss Daisy and all Ramp Riot volunteers for a terrific event. It’s great to have been around to see this event grow, from the 8 teams during year one, to the multi-faceted event it is today.
Congratulations on Ten Years of Ramp Riot!
Also, thanks to NASA, Wissahickon High School, and all the sponsors which made this event possible!
On the competition side, congrats to the winners and finalists and thanks to teams 768 and 1511 for running the Regolith with us.
For us and for most, this event puts a cap on Lunacy for 2009. Best of luck to all teams with our upcoming 2010 FIRST challenge.
I also want to say thanks to Miss Daisy for running such a great event. The FRC contest was great, our team had one of our best off-season performances.
It was nice to have a pit next to 1511 to learn all of their secrets (and to hang out with my sister Even though the space is packed with robots there are great site lines in the stands to watch the action.
I also liked the other robot stuff going on from the public drive area to the FTC competition in the back hall. Thanks for letting us be part of the outreach to the Girl Scout “Girls in Gear” program. They loved driving the VEX robots in the game we set up. Some of those Daisy Scouts (1 and 2nd graders) were pretty amazing at the controls.
Thanks for setting up control system presentations. It’s nice to see and talk to the beta guys to be able to plan ahead.
And finally, thanks for flying in Andy Baker. It was cool to meet the man that is the myth (or is it the legend?) of so many stories.
See you next year!
The **Official Results **of Ramp Riot 2009
Our 10th Anniversary
Champions: Teams 1218, 834, 2791, 1143
Finalists: Teams 103, 303, 222, 2729
Number One Seed: Team 2528 The RoboDoves
**Spirit of Ramp Riot: **Team 87 Diablo
Mike Wade Memorial Award: Team 2791 Shaker Robotics (w/406 food cans donated)
**Total Cans Collected **for the Mattie Dixon Community Cupboard: **1,497 **cans!!!
Congratulations to the winners and a big THANK YOU to our Ramp Riot Teams for your generosity!!
Many People asked about our Ramp Riot 10th Anniversary video. You watch both the 10th Anniversary Video and the Intro video fromt he opening ceremony on vimeo.
The tenth anniversary video is very cool because it has every game since 2000 all in one video.
ENJOY!!
Aw, man, if we only known we could have brought 14 more cans and you would have had 1511! :yikes:
Here are a few non-competition event highlights from the day
Charity Collection
A 10 year record of **1,497 food **cans were collected for the Mattie Dixon Community Cupboard, Thank you to every team that delivered.
2nd Annual “Girls In Gear” Program
60 Girl Scouts took part in a 2 hour, hands-on, Technology Program, specially designed for GSA members
Programming Seminar:
A seminar which covered JAVA, C++, and Labview was conducted in the auditorium after the qualifying rounds
Record Attendance & Participation
An estimated 3500 people viewed the FRC & FTC competitions over the course of 8 hours
36 FRC Teams
12 FTC Teams
10th Anniversary Ceremony (The Return of our Alumni)
45 Alumni Robotics Team members, spanning 10 years of Ramp Riot, graced the field in the Circle Gym for a special ceremony.
Special Guests:
The **Phillie Phanatic **worked the crowd and **Radio Station 94 WYSP **got everyone in the action with games and prizes.
Once again, we sincerely thank everyone that helped with Ramp Riot this year and truly appreciate the support of our competing teams.
We had a blast and we hope you did too.
Al Ostrow
Team 341
The next post is a list of everyone that made Ramp Riot possible. We certainly could not do this by ourselves.
Al,
We’ve got a Girl Scout team here in Austin that is starting to generate team interest with other Girl Scouts. Would you be willing to send me contact information regarding this? It sounds awesome!
Thank you,
Jane
Team 341 would like to **thank everyone **for the incredible support we received while organizing Ramp Riot 2009. The event has grown so large that we truly depend on the help of so many people around us.
Please join Team 341 in thanking the following companies, teams, and individuals:
Sponsors
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center
Dow Chemical Company
Cobham Defense Electronics
PA Space Consortium
BAE Systems
PJM Interconnection
AndyMark Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
DeVry University
Techni-Tool Inc.
Special Thanks To:
Rob Thate of NASA Goddard SFC
Ron Karpinski of Team 2528
Jeff Downs of Team 1511
Rob Ervin & Pete Randall Team 1218
Frank Larkin Team 272
Partners
NJ FIRST FTC Committee
Girl Scout of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Wissahickon School District
WHS TV Lab
WHS PE Department
WHS Camerata Singers
WHS Maintenance Department
The Philadelphia Phillies
Radio Station 94 WYSP
Jay Delp Productions
Wissahickon Educational Opportunities Foundation
Mattie Dixon Community Cupboard
STEM Robotics Club
FRC 103 Cybersonics
FRC 365 MOE Robotics
FRC 1218 Chestnut Hill Academy
FRC 2016 Mighty Monkey Wrenches
FTC 248 Pope John Robotics
Our Dedicated Coaches
Kirsten Jahn
Jared Russell
Bob Smith
Frank Torrente
Matt Trageser
Volunteers and Individual Supporters:
Haroon Ahmad
Sam Alexander
Andy Baker
Vince Bevivino
Donald Bowers
Chris Brouse
John Conahan
James Cover
Ken Dixon
Jeff Downs
Rob Ervin
Vince Frascella
Jessi Fritz
Forough Ghahramani
Jim Haine
Kyle Higgins
Alan Hinde
Dave Isaac
Siddhu Kandan
Carol Kauffman
Jennifer Keefe
Larry Kenney
Pete Kieselbach
Nathan Knauss
Amy Lendzinski
Doug Markgraf
Logan Moloshok
Natalie Morris
Caroline Morrow
Adam Nedorezov
Jackie Nedorezov
Ed Patterson
Joe Perotto
Carol Perotto
Peter Randall
Steve Rhoads
Scott Richardson
Mike Rizzo
Phil Ross
Rohan Shenoy
Brian Sherman
Foster Shucker
Jeff Slanina
Rich Somerville
Matt Stone
Katherine Trageser
Danny Triolo
Trevor Walsh
Saul Wecht
Deb Zwiebel
Jake Zwiebel
Jim Zwiebel
Nika Zwiebel
Jane:
My daughter designed and implemented this program for her silver award in 2008 and it grew into something bigger.
Here is a link to a very descriptive white paper.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2271
You can also send an email to the organizers at girls.in.gear@gmail.com
We can provide written materials, give away patches, and advice about the timing and activities. We are also working on demonstration boards and videos.
Just an FYI, none of the materials have the Team 341 logo on it and we encourage local teams to personalize their materials. We want this to be a stand alone program strictly for the benefit of the scouts and the teams involved.
Got it.
I’ll forward this to the lead mentor. Girl Scouts are bringing amazing assets, attitudes, and abilities to this program. Thank you, Al! Please tell your daughter, thank you.
Jane
Thank you so much for being a Ref, just when we needed help. 1511 really helped with some very important aspects of our event. (Particularly, Jeff Downs with the control system)
It was also just fun to have Rolling Thunder at Ramp Riot. Thanks very much for attending and volunteering.