The Challenge - Last update before event

[Brian T Sanders]

Hello everyone,

Hopefully your robots are moving right along.  I had some great questions over the past week and I'm really looking forward to seeing most everyone on Friday and everyone on Saturday morning.  I'm hoping to arrive at the hotel around 3pm on Friday.

Attached are maps and the agenda.  As you arrive at the Dunes, please tell anyone in the entrance booth that you are there for the Robotics Challenge and they should let you through without paying the entrance fee.  I've been talking with the Rangers at the Dunes and they are very excited to have us there.  Let's be great guests.  Please be sure to bring snacks, water and sunscreen for Friday and Saturday. Families are welcome to come and cheer on the teams.  

See you soon,

Brian

[Brian T Sanders]

Hello everyone,

Thanks for coming to the Robotics Challenge this year.  We had a great time at the Dunes, with great weather and many incredible designs. Some robots were feats of mechanical design, some were small, intelligent, and nimble.  All were creative and much learning was had by all.  Bernadette put an awesome video together and it is posted along with some still photos on the website.  Encourage your teams to get involved next year on April 5th, 2014 at the Great Sand Dunes.  Continue to design more advanced mechanical and electrical systems that have greater autonomy.

http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/statewideprograms/roboticschallenge

If you want to show off your Robot this weekend at the Statewide Colorado Undergraduate Space Research Symposium, you can still sign up by emailing me.  It is a great way to possibly win some cash and meet some people in the Aerospace Industry.

http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/statewideprograms/cspaceresearchsymposium

Or consider some of the other projects that you could take something you build to the edge of space and beyond.

Fly a payload to the edge of Space: http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/statewideprograms/demosat-homepage

Fly a payload into Space: http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/national-programs/rocksatc-home

And finally, as a small reward for reading this entire email, you can win a 50 dollar gift certificate to SparkFun if you fill this survey out.  This will help me build resources to share with teams next year.  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M2FCNCQ

Well done again and talk to you soon,

Brian

Brian Sanders
Deputy Director
Colorado Space Grant Consortium
spacegrant.colorado.edu
Office: 303-492-5451
Mobile: 303-258-6339

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Brian Sanders
Deputy Director
Colorado Space Grant Consortium
spacegrant.colorado.edu
Office: 303-492-5451
Mobile: 303-258-6339

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[Brian T Sanders]

Hello everyone,

Thanks again for participating in the Robotics Challenge this year and I hope everyone had a good rest of the semester.  Below is another great opportunity to show off your robots from either from the Challenge or from other opportunities which might help inspire young people to explore robotics.  Nancy Reed from the Space Foundation is helping to organize an event on June 15th in Colorado Springs and please contact her directly if you are interested.  She is CC'ed above and read more below and in the attached.

Also - one last chance to fill out the Robotics Challenge 2013 Survey below.  Since I didn't give a due date before, I will award the $50 certificate to one of the respondents on Monday May 20th. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M2FCNCQ

And I'm going to add everyone to the COSGC-Robotics list in a moment (if you aren't already on this list) for information next year.

Happy Roboting - Brian

More Details from the Space Grant Director at the Space Foundation:

The Space Foundation is calling this the Summer of Discovery. We believe that the 10 weeks of individual and unique themes of programing that will be offered, will appeal both to local residents and visitors to Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region  http://www.spacefoundation.org/events/summer-discovery

As you will see from the link, the second theme of the Summer of Discovery series is centered around Mars and robots.  Given CSGC's obvious success with having quality robotic programs at a number of it's affiliate institutions, I would like to ask your assistance. Saturday 15th, June will be the climax of the Mars/robot week, and my colleague Nancy Reed (copied on this note) would like to put the icing on the cake by adding robot demos by under grad/grad students. Now I understand that by the middle of June that all the colleges will be out, however, regardless of this, wonder if you might advertise this public awareness opportunity to our robotic orientated affiliates?