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Update: Week Two-Three

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:16:30 +0000

We lost a ton of video-- out of thin air! So we had to squeeze week two and week three into one video!

But in a nutshell, the video explains:

"In the past two weeks, teams 354 and 2681 have been behind schedule. Tasks from teaching first-year students to purchasing items, to getting used to the CompactRIO have pulled these teams behind from their planned schedule. Will the teams make up for lost time before ship date?"

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Update: Week One

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:38:05 +0000

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In the first week since the announcement of the game challenge, teams 354 and 2681 overcome many obstacles and move full speed ahead towards building their robots!

Movie may take long to load: Will get better encoder soon

WARNING: This video contains music from the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End soundtrack

Update: 13 January 2009

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:39:14 +0000

Today, FIRST released another update. Here is the link:

Update: 13 January 2009

FIRST Updates: Week One

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:26:14 +0000

This week, FIRST released two updates. They contain only three or so changes, but every sentence counts! Check it out.

This weeks updates: Update 1 and Update 2

LUNACY! The 2009 FRC Game Challenge!

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:00:41 +0000

Today, the game has been revealed to all of the FIRST community.

The game challenge is called LUNACY, inspired by the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Like the Apollo 11 mission, the LUNACY game has a catch unlike anything else--a very low coefficient of friction! Just like the moon!

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Safety Shipments!

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:39:19 +0000

Hey Friends!

Lately we've been revamping our arsenal of supplies for the coming build season, and it came up in meetings very often that we were void of safety supplies. It came to my attention that it was a problem that needed to be fixed before kickoff, and not after someone got a cut or laceration, etc. I spoke to Mr. Zeimer about it, and he said we should order some stuff. So we've ordered some supplies to keep up to safety standards:

More safety glasses
Replacement safety glasses for shaded glasses that aren't approved by FIRST
First Aid Kit(s)
Gloves