We’ll head to Orchard View High School near Muskegon for our first District Event of the 2019 Season. This will be our first time at this venue. We’re looking forward to meeting some new teams to seeing some of our West Michigan friends from past seasons.
We have tentatively booked space at the Hampton Inn in Muskegon, which is about a 15 minute drive from the venue. Here’s the contact information for the hotel:
Hampton Inn Muskegon
1401 East Ellis Road
Muskegon MI 49444, US
+1 2317998333
Here’s the schedule for the event:
05:00 PM Pits open*
10:00 PM Pits close
08:00 AM Pits open
10:30 AM Opening ceremonies
11:00 AM Matches begin
01:00 PM Lunch begins
01:30 PM Lunch ends, matches resume
08:00 PM Matches end
09:00 PM Pits close**
08:00 AM Pits open
09:00 AM Opening ceremonies
09:30 AM Matches begin
12:30 PM Alliance Selections
01:00 PM Lunch begins
02:00 PM Lunch ends, elimination rounds begin
05:00 PM Elimination rounds end
05:00 PM Awards
06:30 PM Pits close*** Teams may set up pits immediately. Unbagging will begin when a Robot Inspector arrives.
** Pits close at scheduled time, or one hour after the end of last match, whichever is later.
Schedule subject to change, based on flow of rounds.
CONTACTS
Event Coordinator: Michael Gerstweiler events@team4004.com / Jamie Page jamiepage1969@gmail.com
Volunteer Coordinator: Stacey Hoeker volunteers@team4004.com
Full information provided by FIM is here: http://firstinmichigan.us/FRC/muskegon/.
Our second District Event for the 2018 Season is at Lake Superior State University. This will be our first visit to compete at this venue (we made a college visit here in 2017).
We have tentatively selected the Comfort Inn in Sault Sainte Marie (US) as our base hotel. Rooms will fill up quickly there, so if you’d like to travel with the team best to book sooner than later.
Comfort Inn
4404 I-75 Bus. Spur
Sault Sainte Marie, MI, US, 49783
+1 (906) 635-1118
05:00 PM Pits open*
10:00 PM Pits closeFRIDAY
08:00 AM Pits open
10:30 AM Opening ceremonies
11:00 AM Matches begin
01:00 PM Lunch begins
01:30 PM Lunch ends, matches resume
08:00 PM Matches end
09:00 PM Pits close**SATURDAY
08:00 AM Pits open
09:00 AM Opening ceremonies
09:30 AM Matches begin
12:30 PM Alliance Selections
01:00 PM Lunch begins
02:00 PM Lunch ends, elimination rounds begin
05:00 PM Elimination rounds end
05:00 PM Awards
06:30 PM Pits close*** Teams may set up pits immediately. Unbagging will begin when a Robot Inspector arrives.
** Pits close at scheduled time, or one hour after the end of last match, whichever is later.
Schedule subject to change, based on flow of rounds.
The State Champ event returns to Saginaw Valley State University (where we competed in 2017). We will work hard to return this year.
Here’s the schedule for the event (note that it includes three days rather than the two (as is the case for regional events):
Full even information from FIM is here: http://firstinmichigan.us/FRC/events/
Again this year the FIRST world championship events are split between two locations–Houston and Detroit. We qualified for the world championships in St. Louis in 2016 (when they were still a single event). We worked hard to make it back to Worlds this year, but we did not make it. But, with the event nearby in Detroit you still might want to attend to see the competition as well as to attend some of the many conference sessions and to visit the exhibits.
Here is a link to information about the Detroit World event: https://www.firstchampionship.org/detroit-home. We attended the event last year because there are many useful conference sessions at Worlds. (We snuck into watch a few matches, too.) The FIRST world event is more exciting than any other high school competitive event we know about. If you can make it there even for a day, we encourage you to go. It’s all free for general attendance at the matches and for all conference events.
Interested in robots? Programming? Sign up for the bIrobot Summer Robtics Camp. Design and build a robot to meet challenges in a game revealed at the start of camp. Team up with others and compete as an alliance against other teams to see who can score the most points. You’ll build and program a robot the first day of camp and then build on those skills to complete a week-long version of a FIRST FRC season. The grand finale will be a competition among the teams, to find the best robot. But everyone will win with a great experience. Your mentors will be the bIrobot FIRST FRC team, veterans of three FRC seasons, along with their coach, who teaches programming and robotics at BICS. No prior programming or robotics experience is required, but those with experience will still find plenty to challenge them.
Class meets from 8:30 to 12:30 Monday through Thursday and 8:30 to 3:00 on Friday. Our competition will begin at 2:00 on Friday after a traditional bIrobot Pizza Party for campers (so pack a lunch Friday if you don’t like pizza). Summer residents and vacation visitors are welcome. You need not be a student at BICS to attend. There is a $35 activity fee.
Join us for a 2020 season kick-off event in the robot lab at BICS. We’ll watch the kick-off show live streamed for FIRST HQ and then begin work on planning our 2020 robot. We’ll wrap things up with a traditional pizza party at 1:00 p.m.
If you aren’t able to join us at BICS, you can watch the Kick-off live from FIRST HQ here: https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/1747660/85b43e41-770e-4585-86bf-f0a69d289791
Our first District Event of the 2020 season is in Escanaba at the Escanaba High School. Once we finalize travel arrangements, those details will be posted here.
Our second District Event for 2020 will be at Alpena High School. Travel information will be posted here as it becomes available.
FIM HAS CANCELLED THE MICHIGAN STATE CHAMP EVENT. FIM is looking at options to conduct an alternate series of events at SVSU at a later date. CHeck back here or follow us on Facebook or Twitter for details.
The State Champ event returns to Saginaw Valley State University (where we competed in 2016 and 2017). We will work hard to return this year.
The detailed schedule for the event has not yet been published, but please note that it runs over three days rather than the two (as is the case for regional events).
Full event information from FIM will be posted here: http://firstinmichigan.us/FRC/events/
FIRST HAS CANCELLED THIS YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT IN DETROIT.
Again this year the FIRST world championship events are split between two locations–Houston and Detroit. We qualified for the world championships in St. Louis in 2016 (when they were still a single event) and have attended the Detroit Championships as a guest of Consumers Energy after winning a state-wide Pit Display comeptition. We will work hard this year to return as a competitor in the event.
Here is a link to information about the Detroit World event: https://www.firstchampionship.org/detroit-home. The FIRST world event is more exciting than any other high school competitive event we know about. In addition to competition events for all four FIRST Leagues (FLL Jr., FLL, FTC and FRC), you can visit the teams in their pits and attend a full schedule of conference sessions that cover a broad range of topics of interest to students, parents and mentors that cover a variety of robotics and other topics. If you can make it there even for a day, we encourage you to go. It’s all free for general attendance at the matches and for all conference events.
