Team 399, Eagle Robotics, is pleased to announce the 8th annual RoboProm held at the FIRST Championship in St. Louis Missouri!
The event was started by the students of Team 399 in 2007, who unfortunately had to miss their high school prom to attend the Championship event, but didn’t want to miss out on the experience. We are excited to continue the tradition, and make it better than ever.
Where: Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, RoboProm Grand Ballroom, 315 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, MO When: Thursday, April 24th, 2014 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM Dress Code: Some people go semi-formal, some get fancy, and some like to get into pretty unique costumes. Whatever suits you! Price: $20 pre-sale via our team website up until 4/19, $25 at the Championship event. Mentors and advisors chaperoning are welcome into the event for free.
We will be releasing one wave of 800 tickets starting today, March 26th. Once those sell out, tickets won’t be available for purchase until the second wave of 800 is released on April 13th, the day after the conclusion of week 7 events.
Happy to help host the RoboProm again this year! Giving out King and Queen is always a fun part of the evening, and it’s awesome to see the FIRST community come together.
I’ll be there, and depending on how Week 7 goes, will be crossing my fingers to bring 1923!
Glad to announce Kelly Carlson (Team 2403) and I, AJ Novelli, (Team 2486) will be running for royalty this year! Be sure to check us out on twitter! @aj_2486 and @thekellycarlson
Well stay tuned, as we’re talking about redefining the process for deciding King & Queen for this year so that it’s not as random as it was in the past. There currently isn’t a process for ‘running’ for the title, but we’ll update you when we can!
(399 runs a great show, everyone. It’s been a blast to work with their team’s event manager. )
I hope to make an appearance this year, as I had such a good time last year. I will be sure to purchase tickets early though, I almost missed out last year.
Of course I must include in my first championship experience the famous RoboProm from 399. Can’t wait to see the amazing event Gabriel and the rest of 399 put on this year.
“Things I saw at RoboProm 2103
By Team 2137: TORC · Updated about 11 months ago”
From the title on your picture album, I hope that we are still conducting RoboProm in the year 2103 [Don’t go fixing it now…]
Great pictures, I love how the students feel free to dress up, come as they are, or wear a costume. It is part of the great time students have coming to RoboProm. No judgement, no pressures of a high school prom. So looking forward to see what people are wearing this year. Hope to see you there!
Can’t wait to check it out. It has been talks in the SPAM Pit about this! I know I would love to chaperone our students and see what this is all about!
P.S. and I can relive my memories of missing Prom in 2002 for World Championship at Disneyworld.
We’ll be answering frequently asked questions, such as yours, over the days leading up to the event.
To your first question, there isn’t a “normal” attire. You will find several people dressed well in tuxes and dresses. With the large amount of people dressed in costumes, duct tape suits, and LED lined dresses, “normal” isn’t a thing at this event. Dress how you want!
There will be snacks and drinks to go along with the music and dancing. The event is still in the planning stages, so if more activities come along, it will be announced in this thread along with the RoboProm page on our team website.
Is this an event for FIRST volunteers, too?
This event is primarily for current FIRST students. The amount of tickets we sell is chosen based on the maximum capacity of the ballroom we have booked. That number considers the students attending, the mentors that will be chaperoning them, and the individuals that are required to run the event.
How many mentors are allowed into the event per team?
We don’t set a certain ratio of mentors per number of students. However, we do allow mentors in with the primary intent of chaperoning their team. We haven’t had any issues in 7 years of hosting this event, but we expect the chaperons to help if anything out of the ordinary occurs.
I will continue to add FAQs over the next few days!
They are allowed to simply enter without any sort of chaperon ticket. You only need to purchase tickets for the students attending. The 1600 ticket limit considers students only. The max capacity limit is a safe number above that
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