[TriEmbed] Looking for volunteers for the 2020 robotics competition

Rodney Radford ncgadgetry at gmail.com
Mon Dec 30 17:16:59 CST 2019


Thank you to those who have reached out and asked more about SoutheastCon.
Here is a page from one of the teams that competed the last time I ran the
competition in 2017 in Charlotte:

http://ee.bradley.edu/projects/proj2017/IEEE/the-competition.html

To me what is interesting is the number of students (about 60 teams and 400
students for this competition), their level of engagement and excitement -
just look at the bustling room with everyone standing around working on
their robots, helping, watching others compete, etc

If you are involved in any STEM activity, or robotics, or electronics, or
just like to help out for a great cause, this is the way to do it. You
don't need any specific skills as the rules are written so that it should
be easy to run and judge the competition.

But I do need help... at least 2 people per arena, plus the other helpers I
mentioned in the previous email.

Please reach out to me if you are interested and have any questions and I
can help explain further.

Thanx,
Rodney


On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:37 AM Rodney Radford <ncgadgetry at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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