Having spent too much of our team funding on pizza, party favors and helium to lighten the robot, we have found ourselves with insufficient funds to afford conventional travel to the competition sites. We have investigated alternatives like driving, bus, train, camels, and rickshaw. None of them were within our price range. Therefore, we are being forced to resort to alternative travel methods. Check here for our solution (after all, FIRST did say that we could send two crates! ). Then, let us know how you will be getting to the regional and national competitions!
-dave
Team 116: Creating the technology of tomorrow, some time late tonight.
Since, as I recall, the crates are supposed to be less than 400 lbs, that means your students have to weigh an average of 23lbs each, and the crate nothing at all.
Of course after all that time in the crate with nothing to eat that may not be an issue.
But it is a rather interesting solution to the problem. For one thing it virtually guarantees no student problems for several weeksā¦
We are considering having our old robots pull us for the ride to Drexel or our trusty camel Pedro. Or we might just take a school bus. He he Iām probally gonna yell at someone half the way there.
My teamās bot can lift a person if we add a place where the person could easily standā¦ My team will be driving down, but hey, we are already in Floridaā¦ My teams last year rode down ona charter bus that was shared with 2 other small teams.
Well, we can fit about 6 in the goal, and 2 more on the robot for traction. Unfortunately, we had to cut out the robotās air conditioning because of weight problems, so we will probably go in a school bus. (although i bet it wont have air conditioning either)
Hmmā¦Iām pretty sure weāre bussing it to our two regionals and weāre flying down to Nats. Weāre lucky, both regionals are pretty close to us. The LI Regional is about 20 minutes away (if that) and the NYC regional is about an hour to an hour and a half.
Well, weāre going to Saint Louis this year. Itās about a 7 hour (give or take) trip, and weāre taking vans from our University. OK for the rest of the teamā¦looks like the āChippiemobileā and I might be flying solo on this one though.
ā¦If I could only get out of this darn examā¦
Anyway, for those of you going to Saint Louis, see you there!
Weāre all taking Dean Kamenās scooters and wheelchairs down.
Jessica werenāt you on chaos?
You look like the girl who held up the sign that says ārobot chicks have more funā at the UTC regionals. Everyone got a kick out of that.
We are taking coach buses, thankfully we donāt have to ride in the pickles. Should we manage to do something that would let us go to nationals, I think we would fly, but at our own personal expense.
Ack! Looks like Iām never going to live that lovely little media experiment down. It doesnāt matter, Iāll keep using the old adage that I seem to be using frequently at college:
At least I have the balls to do crazy stuff while sober.
Yes, Reverend, that was me.
No, Reverend, Im an alum of 237, the team that picked 131 and 209 that went on to win the UTC Regional in 00.
Yeah, %%%% those last days of the season, I forget alot. All of 237 had the yellow shirts, NOW I remember. Chaos was the one who just went around getting all the black balls. That last match was very exciting to watch. Where you guys (and girls) took the goldā¦sorry Olympic hysteria.
). Then, let us know how you will be getting to the regional and national competitions!