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Deepali posted an update 10 years, 9 months ago

Hello, our team is thinking of testing their robot on another table just to check things works properly.
We live in Sunnyvale, pl let me know if anybody is willing to share their table for 20 min.
If any other team wants to come and test our table is available on Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon after 3.00 pm
Thanks

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jill wrote a new post 10 years, 11 months ago

One of the things that I think is sometimes difficult for coaches, mentors and parents of team members to understand when they email asking a question is that I usually send them the link that answers their […]

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Dianna Zentner commented on the post, Recruiting Girls 11 years ago

My team currently has 6 girls and 4 boys. It’s a good mix. I think you’re right in how to recruit them. For my team the girls recruited other girls for the most part.

I think some of the girls were nervous to […]

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rsv4444 joined the group Peninsula District News 11 years ago

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rsv4444 posted an update in the group East Bay District News 11 years ago

Anybody wants to trade tournament site? We’re assigned Leland HS, San Jose on Nov 17. That’s a 1.5 hours drive for us. Willing to trade with anybody from any of the East Bay teams.

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jill wrote a new post 11 years, 1 month ago

Thinking about FIRST Tech Challenge as the next step from FLL?

FIRST has a very limited number of FLL to FTC Graduation Grants available! If you are graduating from FLL you are eligible for our FLL to FTC […]

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Raghu Edalur and David C Sastry are now friends 11 years, 1 month ago

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jill wrote a new post 11 years, 1 month ago

I have noticed a large number of seemingly “fake” hotmail users already on this site. sigh. If you see any ads or similar items that don’t belong here, please send me an email and I will delete the user as soon […]

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jill wrote a new post 11 years, 1 month ago

For those that are not quite sure how to navigate around: Here is link that lists all upcoming Events tagged as a “scrimmage” : http://social.norcalfll.org/events/categories/scrimmage/

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Ken Brownlee added the event Palo Alto FLL Scrimmage 11 years, 1 month ago

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John posted an update 11 years, 1 month ago

@rhanuman

Raghu,

Once an item is in base the kids can pick it up an move it around. Also, once an item is in base the kids can “store” it on the table next to base as long as the items remain in view of the referee. Some teams have made Lego boxes to help keep things organized near base. The scoring condition for most objects is at the end…[Read more]

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- Raghu Edalur replied 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  Thanks John
- Raghu Edalur replied 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  Thanks John
Raghu Edalur posted an update 11 years, 1 month ago

I am a rokie coach and have a couple of questions about the missions.

1. The Mat display shows a few things in the base, such as a lady, a helmet, a water jug etc. Should they be in the base, and if so how does the robot occupy the base?,.
2. Once the robot carries certain things to the base, is it ok for the tem to pick them up, and load them…[Read more]

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- David C Sastry replied 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  Hi Raghu,
  
  Typically things in “base” an things that are considered in control of the team. Rule 21 – Stored Objects and Rule 28 – Storage and Workspace allow the teams to move things in and out of base and onto tables or in boxes, as long as they don’t have some kinds of affect on the autonomous operations of the robot. When the robot brings…[Read more]
- Raghu Edalur replied 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  Thanks David.
Phillip Alvelda posted an update in the group East Bay District News 11 years, 1 month ago

Hi all, anyone have a team interested in either helping organize, or even just attending a scrimmage in the East Bay the first weekend in November?

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- Raghu Edalur replied 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  My Rookie team of 9 yr old kids, would be interested in attendign a scrimmage, just so we can learn what actual happens at the games.
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Steven Zhang replied 1 year, 10 months ago

Our FTC team Kuriosity Robotics has created a program called FIRST Things First. One of the services is to pass down game tables from graduating teams to rookie FLL teams. So far we have donated 12 tables in the past two years. If you are interested, please visit our website and fill out the form. Thank you so much for your…[Read more]

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