I’m just curious of what everyone else plans to do over the summer that is non-robotics related. I’ll be at CMU this summer for SAMS. Will any other FIRSTers else be there? Any other similar programs where FIRSTers will be gathering?
Use this thread to discuss meetups, summer programs attending or other activities… basically a “Who’s Going Where - Summer 2007”
-No L
I will be traveling from California to Nashville Tennessee to visit relatives. Anyone know any cool robotics related things along that route?
Have fun, Tennessee is really fun (if you like camping, hiking, and other odds and ends). Either way,you will have fun. I’ll bet that you could easily find a robotics team down there. Just look around on the internet and see if you can’t check them out for a day.
There’s only one team that I know of… F.E.A.R.
Tennessee is the best state in the US… mainly because I was born in Chattanooga. Take lots of pictures, it’s beautiful.
I’m going to a science and technology camp for a week in June.
I’m going to be going to school all summer. 
But my college offers a program thing for high school students that into robotics and technology call CARCAM. I may try help out there.
My summer:
School gets out on Monday, June 18
Later that week 3-4 days of scout camp
The nest week:
3 days of a church camp
The week after that:
Another church camp Mon-Sat
1.5 weeks later:
Flying to Utah for about a month
About a month later:
Back home-free time until school starts again
About 2 weeks later:
School starts again
No time for a summer job 
I’ll be putting in around 50 hours a week with a local contractor.
May 14-June 18 - Summer classes (French I, Website Design, World Cultures) at MTU and working full time for the Keweenaw Research Center
**June 18-19 **- Going home to visit the parents at our new house in Appleton 
***June 20-August 4ish ***- Working as the Robotics Coordinator for NASA’s Summer Institute of Robotics at Morgan State in Baltimore (thanks to seeing this post and applying for the job! :))
August 5-August 6 - Driving back to Houghton
**August 6-September 4 **- Working for KRC again until school starts.
I’m also:
It’s going to be a busy summer!
Summer camp in late June in San Diego, followed immediately by going to the eastern Sierras for a summer job (at a summer camp), followed by maybe a week or two at home before it’s off to college.
Climbing campout in June.
Summer Camp and IRI in July.
Backpacking trip in August.
Hilly Hundred in October.
And of course, other random things (like upgrading the robot)
I’m going to be going to get my drivers licence and start dring out!:yikes:
Now through June 14-ish: As little as possible. Maybe some robotics work, maybe some work on campus, but nothing that involves punching a clock or collecting a paycheck. (Darn. :))
June 15-16: BattleCry (I hope!)
June 20-July 22: Work in Maine at a camp up that ways. (Robotics, of course–and this is more or less how BattleCry becomes an option.)
July 22-August: More slacking off.
Mid-August: Move back to USC for the senior year.
Working full time under a summer research grant from NSERC in the Human Media Lab of Queen’s University. If anyone happens to be coming to campus feel free to give me a shout.
Having lightsaber battles with friends so they can be recorded and mailed on DVD to next year’s Computing students. That, and other strange and wonderful things that come along with being President of our computing students’ association.
Slowly working on learning some Mandarin.
Oh, and last week I finally got my G (Ontario’s unrestricted driver’s license for standard cars/trucks/vans).
(I wanted to bring this thread up to see if anyone else is going to attend the same on as me)
I’ll be attending COSMOS(Math & Science Program) at UC San Diego in La Jolla, CA. from July 8-August 4.
I’ll be skipping a few days from it to attend IRI though! 
& then later in August I’ll be volunteering at the UCLA medical center.
July:
7th-13th: Going to Fort Defiance, Arizona (North/East), for a Mission/Service trip to help the people of the Navajo Nation.
22nd-28th: Going to Circle X scout camp at FLSR
August:
19th-24: Volunteering at a youth Developed Mentally Disabled (DD) camp, in San Diego, CA (Well, through the church but we’re going to SD)
26th-31st: Volunteering at an adult Developed Mentally Disabled (DD) camp, in San Diego, CA
Its a packed summer!