Silicon Valley Regional

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Silicon Valley Regional

• March 16-17, 2007

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Location San Jose State Event Center

• Address
• The Event Center
• San Jose State University
• 290 South 7th StreetSan José, CA 95192
• You are responsible for your own ride
• We cannot arrange carpools this year

View from 7th Street
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General Information

• The general public can attend the competition
  free of charge
• Parents, teachers, and friends are all invited
• Parking is 10 in the garage

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Rules and Guidelines

• You must attend on the days you have been excused
  for!
• Sign-in and Sign-out with Mr. Shinta at the start
  and end of each day
• Attendance will be taken and absences will be
  reported
• Wear your MVRT T-shirts!!
• The team will be seated together in the stands
  forming a sea of purple
• Bring money for lunch (10-15)
• Outside food isnt allowed inside the Event
  Center
• Behave and act responsibly
• School rules still apply to you at competition
• Do as youre told you are responsible for
  yourself
• Aside from thatHAVE FUN!!

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Pits

• A 10 ft by 10 ft area is allotted to each team to
  work on their robot
• Due to the limited space, only pit crew members
  should be in the pits.

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Competition Schedule

• Thursday Practice Rounds (Pit Day)
• Robot uncrated
• Pit Crew and Scout Leaders will attend
• Friday Qualifications
• Everyone attends
• Matches begin
• Scouting and Pits are full throttle
• Saturday Eliminations
• Everyone attends
• Matches end/Eliminations begin
• End of competition

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Friday Qualification Rounds

• 800AM Pits and Machine Shop open
• 900AM Opening ceremonies
• 930AM-430PM Seeding matches
• 1200PM-100PM Lunch
• 430PM Awards Ceremony
• 600PM Pits and Machine Shop close

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Saturday Eliminations

• 800AM Pits and machine shop open
• 900AM Opening ceremonies
• 930AM-1145AM Seeding matches
• 1145AM-1200PM Alliance Selections
• 1200PM-100PM Lunch
• 100PM-300PM Final rounds
• 300PM Awards ceremony
• 500PM Pits and Machine Shop close

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Jobs at Competition

• Pit Crew
• Spend majority of the time in the Pits
• Keep robot ready to run in each match
• Drive Crew
• Group of four that compete on the field during
  each match
• Scouting
• Spend majority of the time in the stands (some in
  pits)
• Take copious notes (NEATLY)!
• Spectating
• Sit in the stands and cheer!

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Pit Crew

• Humphrey Hu (Head)
• Ashin Modak
• Lie Ma
• William Yuan
• Christian Hahn
• Ryan Lee

• Christine Chen
• Manoj Mardithaya
• Mike He
• Rosalind Lee

• Attends everyday including Thursday
• Note All Pit Crew members need to stay after
  the meeting for further instruction

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Drive Crew

• Danica Chang
• Pavan Datta
• Brij Datta
• Viraaj Marathe
• Ashwin Mathur

• Driver 1
• Strategist
• Coach
• Human Player
• Driver 2 (in training)

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Scouts

• Scott Chen (Head Scout)
• Arun Kuchibotla
• David Hahn
• Steven Yang
• Victor Shu
• Parag Kikla
• Gretchen Lam

• Sam Wu
• Christopher Lin
• Jean Feng
• Alice Liu
• Akhil Raju
• Atish Agarwala
• Sandeep Chinchali

Scouting on Thursday as well Note All scouts
need to stay after the meeting for further
instruction
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Spectators (Everyone)

• Watch matches
• Cheer for the team!
• Hold up signs
• Cheer the team on
• Follow PR instruction
• HAVE A GREAT TIME!
• We ask that everyone stay for the awards
  ceremony at the end of the day (even though the
  school day ends at 300)

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Part 1 of the Meeting is Over

• Unless already instructed, you may go home
• Scouts and Pit Crew, stay tuned for Part 2 of the
  meeting