Team Argos

Regional Competition in Chicago

Departure / Arrival

Bus Leaves: 7:00 am on Thursday, 3/15; Please arrive by 6:45 am.

Bus Returns: ~10:00 pm on Saturday, 3/17; Tentative; will depend on when we leave Chicago.

The bus will leave and return from the Bldg A parking lot at Cat’s Technical Center in Mossville. See map below.

Competition Location

FIRST Robotics Competition 2007; Midwest Regional

March 15-17 (Thursday-Saturday), 2007

The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) Pavilion

525 South Racine Avenue

Chicago, Illinois 60607

Competition web site

http://www.midwestfirst.org/

See matches online at

http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/webcasts/regionals_2007.php

Lodging (Thursday and Friday night)

Marriott Chicago at Medical District/UIC

625 S Ashland Ave (at Harrison Street)

Chicago, IL 60607

Phone: (312) 491-1234 or 1-800-356-3641

Contact Information

Below is contact information for the leaders and chaperones going on the trip.

Team Leader: Scott Thompson (309-339-3854)

Bus Leader: Pam Beaver (309-657-6712)

Chaperone: Hosea Washington (309-256-4820)

Chaperone: Mike Menke (309-256-8655)

Chaperone: John Johnson (309-253-0842)

Chaperone: John Eisenmann (309-256-9387)

Chaperone: Robert Cannon (309-256-3104)

The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience -- and a lot of fun.

FIRST Robotics Competition combines the excitement of sport with science and technology to create a unique varsity sport for the mind. FRC helps high-school-aged young people discover the rewarding and engaging world of innovation and engineering.

The FIRST Robotics Competition stages short games played by remote-controlled robots. The robots are designed and built in 6 weeks (out of a common set of basic parts) by a team of 15 to 25 high-school-aged young people and a handful of engineers-mentors. The students pilot the robots on the field. Each school year, teams are formed in the fall. Competitions take place in March and April. The FIRST Robotics Competition Regional events are typically held in university arenas. They involve 40 to 70 teams cheered by thousands of fans over two and a half days.

In 2006, the competition reached over 28,000 high-school-aged young people on over 1,125 teams in 33 regional events. Teams came from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Mexico, the U.K., and almost every U.S. state.