[TriEmbed] Looking for volunteers for the 2020 robotics competition

[Rodney Radford]

It is now 11 weeks away from SoutheastCon 2020 and I need to start lining
up volunteers to help me run the hardware contest. The competition will be
held in Raleigh, next March 14th (Saturday).

So what is SoutheastCon? It is IEEE's largest convention in the south east
US and includes several competitions, a paper/poster presentation, and
training. The biggest competition is always the hardware competition where
I anticipate about 60-70 college age teams competing.

I hosted the same event in 2017 and had about 60 teams and had several
individuals from the IEEE R&A, TAR, and TriEmbed groups assist, so reaching
out to the same group again this year as well. (PS: You can find those
rules as well as videos online - it was Star Wars themed that year).

I have included the rules for the competition at the end of this message,
but here is a break down of what people I need. Since the competition falls
on Pi Day, the competition is appropriately Pi themed - check out the rules
for details.

So what do I need?

I need 2x people per arena, for 4x arenas, just to do the count down, start
the competition, monitor the robots and record the score (I will provide
details on how to do that).

I also need an MC - someone to announce the competitions, next teams, etc

I need a score keeper (collect and add up the sheets from the judges), and
a runner (someone to pick up the sheets from the judges to the score keeper.

And I need about 4x to help with general flow control of the robots to and
from the contest areas.

So about 15x people total. No technical skill required - all you need is
the desire to help with running the contest. It is amazingly fun if you
like watching students excited about academics and something they built to
compete.

If you have a particular task that sounds fun to you, let me know and I
will put that with your name and try to accommodate. If not, I will assign
tasks during the competition.

The competition is Saturday, March 14th from 8am - 4pm, but I would like
meet up with the judges Friday afternoon about 4pm to go over the
competition, show everyone their tasks, and for them to get acquainted with
the teams and the robots.

Anyone interested?

Btw, after submitting your name, I can add you to the Discord channel where
the teams are talking about the competition, their robots, etc that way you
can follow along if interested.

Here are the rules to the competition:

https://github.com/ncgadgetry/southeastcon2020/blob/master/Rules/PiDayRules-Nov04_FINAL.pdf
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