Archive for January, 2008

Featured in McDowell Magazine

January 30th, 2008

Recently, our team was featured in the Winter 2008 release of the Blue and White Times (McDowell Student News Magazine). It talks about what we do as a FIRST team and how excited we were for build season to start.

Great Lakes Industrial Technology Summit

January 30th, 2008

The team will have a booth at the Great Lakes Industrial Technology Summit where we will demonstrate our robot. The event will take place on February 12th and 13th from 10am-6pm.
For more information, go to http://www.greatlakessummit.com/

Lunch With Dean Kamen

January 28th, 2008

As mentioned before, Dean Kamen (founder of FIRST) will be the featured speaker at the Edinboro University Millennial Lunchean on Thursday, March 6 (McDowell B-day and Late Start) at the Bayfront Convention Center. All the Erie area teams are invited to set up a booth and demonstrate their robots from 10:30-11:30am.

Kickoff and Scholarship News

January 23rd, 2008

News regarding scholarships and kickoff:
http://archives.subscribermail.com/msg/b3fdb74520e94c51a6f1e5ce4695fe78.htm

Videos Uploaded

January 19th, 2008

Videos are now available on the Media page. More videos will be uploaded when i convert them.

Dean Kamen coming to our Neighborhood

January 18th, 2008

Dean Kamen is coming to Edinboro University on Thursday, March 6, 2008. Tickets are $75 and can be ordered no later than February 25, 2008.
For more information, go to http://cms.edinboro.edu/publications/scholarship_luncheon_2008.dot

New Pictures Uploaded

January 10th, 2008

The first pictures of this years season have just been uploaded. You can check them out on the pictures page. More will be added later since it is really late now.

We have Forums

January 7th, 2008

The website now has forums, just register using the link on the forums page or the login screen and start using the discussion boards.

2008 Competition Manual

January 5th, 2008

Now that the 2008 challenge has been announced, you should start brainstorming ideas. It helps a lot to read the details and rules in the competition manual. You can get the manual at the following URL: http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=452

Scheduled Upgrade

January 1st, 2008

There will be a scheduled upgrade of the software that runs the website occuring on January 1, 2008 at 4:10AM (EST). The upgrade shouldn’t take more than an hour. The website will be inaccessible during the upgrade.
UPDATE: The website software has been successfully upgraded. Sorry, for any inconvenience this may have caused.