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Michael Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:49:57 -0400
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Go and compete!   You will learn a lot.   What regional?   If Norfolk,  come
find me the WAFFLEBOTS, and I will make time to go over some things.

What we learn is more important than what we win.

Mike Brown
On Oct 25, 2011 10:09 AM, "Brian Hardy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I saw this response to Rajesh's book question and now I have doubts about
> competing this year.
>
> We are a division I completely rookie team - we've had our robot kit a
> couple week longer than Rajesh, but that's about it. The team is getting
> into the project and has just started building a robot, but neither is
> approaching presentable as rapidly as would be necessary to do terribly well
> (the project has had to take a radical turn, as they'd chosen a food and
> factor that don't often combine in a way that causes contamination - both
> have issues, just not with each-other - They COULD have a robot in time, but
> only if everything they try works the first time - Did I mention they and I
> are complete rookies? I'm not holding my breath).
>
> So, we're registered for a local tournament (on 11/12), should we take
> whatever we have at that point, or go as spectators? (If spectators, some
> guidance on how to cancel would also be most helpful).
>
>
>
> And, thanks to all of you who take the time to answers all these newbie
> posts - I've found them all to be most respectful and extremely informative.
>
> Brian
>
> On Oct 23, 2011, at 10:11 PM, B Bergenstock wrote:
>
> Do you mean that you *just* started your team and are registered for a
> local tournament?  Because competition is just 2 to 3 weeks away, and that's
> a pretty tall order. But good luck to you and your team.
>         If it were me and I had just started, I would not enter into this
> year's competition, but hold an after school program starting in January
> every other week, teaching them programming and then enter next fall's
> tournament.  Definitely go to this year's event, even as a spectator,
> because being at the competition teaches you a lot.
>      As for books to teach lego to your team,. I highly recommend Educate
> NXT
> http://www.educatenxt.com/
> It's the best value for your money and time.  Carnegie Mellon also has an
> excellent series called Robotic Engineering.  They started a free online
> class equivalent but I can't seem to find that link right now;  Maybe
> someone else has that link.
> Regards,
> Brandy
> .
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Rajesh Shah <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> We are new FLL team recently registered with parents as coach and mentor.
>> We
>> are all new to LEGO Mindstroms NXT Constructions and Programming.
>>
>>
>> I was a thinking a good book will be a nice way to get a jump start for
>> our team.
>> I see a bunch of books available in Amazon.  Any suggestion ?
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?
>> ie=UTF8&keywords=LEGO%20MINDSTORMS%20NXT&tag=nxtprogramsco-
>> 20&index=books&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325#/ref=nb_sb_noss?
>> url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-
>> keywords=LEGO+MINDSTORMS+NXT&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ALEGO+MINDST
>> ORMS+NXT
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Rajesh Shah
>>
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