1906 teams and counting

Good Afternoon Teams,

A number of questions have been posted to the blog where I shared the unexpected change to the Manchester Kickoff.  I’m sorry to say I don’t have a lot of definitive answers for you yet, however I’m working with the other departments involved in the event to get details finalized.  At this time we will have workshops in Manchester on Friday 9-1pm and the Founder’s reception will be hosted as usual.  I still plan to share a full field with teams in attendance at the Manchester screening.  Watch this blog for updates.

Second Event registration opens tomorrow.  Are you ready?  If you believe you will need a Bag & Tag exemption for your second, presumably further away, event, it is a good idea to submit it as soon as possible.  Details here.

The following Beta Teams have started testing 4-slot cRIOs, the new Jaguar motor controllers and a new relay module.  The module is being tested for future kits, the other items will be utilized in 2012.

234    Cyber Blue    IN
294    Beach Cities Robotics    CA
1511    Rolling Thunder    NY
1519    Mechanical Mayhem    NH
2809    Kbotics    Canada
228    Gus Robotics    CT
341    Miss Daisy    PA
694    Stuypulse    NY
3660    The Lightsabers    OK
3780    Robot Unicorn Attack    RI
624    CRyptonite    TX
1208    The MeTool Brigade    IL
1718    The Fighting Pi    MI
1912    Team Combustion    LA
2169    KING TeC    MN

We have a new Supplier Toolkit website that you might want to visit.  Not only is it interesting to learn more about the supplier process; now you have a resource to point potential suppliers to if you run across an organization that wants to become more involved.

We also have a quick supplier survey for teams (six questions).  Please encourage all your team members to participate.

73 days until Kickoff
See you then!