[CoLoCo] Robotics Club

[Kevin Fries]

Is this anything like First Lego League?


On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 19:22 -0700, Andrew wrote:
> OK, I'll try my best to tell you about it. 
> 
> We mainly participate in the FIRST FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition). A
> non-profit organization started by Dean Kamen (the inventor of the
> segway) to interest kids in Science and Technology) Every year we fund
> raise and "collect" local sponsor companies in the hopes that we can
> compete. Every year we are given a challenge that we must complete
> within certain rules. We only have six weeks to build and test a fully
> functional (hopefully) robot. It really gives us an inside look at the
> engineering world. It's really fun too. 
> 
> http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc/default.aspx?id=966
> 
> We do other stuff as well, however FRC takes up a lot of our time. 
>  
> we have a small website at http://tvrobotics.googlepages.com for
> anyone interested. 
> 
> We are hoping to go to Championships in Atlanta this year. It takes
> $6,000 to register and get a main kit of parts for a regional
> competition, and another $5,000 to register for championships + travel
> and hotel expenses. If anyone knows of any companies that would be
> willing to help out... it's always needed and appreciated. 
>  
>  It's always a blast for visitors every year. FIRST encourages us to
> invite people to the competitions. So, try and reserve DATE 3/27/2008
> - 3/29/2008 to be free. If That's not possible, try to at least make
> it the last day. (i believe it's a Saturday) It will be at DU's Richie
> center.
> 
> 
> 
> P.s. If anyones interested I can keep trying to get permission for
> CoLoCo to have a booth to hand out CD's and show off Ubuntu. There are
> lots of people that attend that are really into Science, Technology,
> and for some Linux too. 
-- 
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.