By July 12th, Mrs. Moore will need confirmations on attendees to the Battle O'Baltimore which occurs August 8th through 9th. The event will have teams such as 365 MOE, 339 KILROY, 768 Technoworriors, and 1727 REX. Hopefully for the team, it will be a good off-season social/competitive experience.

It ends up that we have enough members of the team to go to the Battle O'Baltimore. However, neither the Petersens nor Eric will be able to attend, so we need a new drive team. Ms. Moore, Mr. Ballou, and Jade have been contacting all members to see what their plans are for getting there. If neither of them have called you, please call Jade or Ms. Moore.

If you can attend the Battle O'Battimore in early Aug., please contact Cricket ASAP. We currently have 4 or 5 members ready to go if we can get more people to go. In order to go though, we still need a car/van that take the robot. We will also need some people to go the day before to set up. If you need to contact Mr. Ballou, he will be back in town sometime next week.

Because we were not able to contact FIRST before June 30th, it will now cost us $200 instead of $150. Check your emails also. Cricket has been sending out emails about it.

We would like to thank all of our sponsors that helped us this season. Without you, we wouldn't have won the regional competition in March. Also, without your help, we couldn't have gone to the national competition in Atlanta, GA in April.

Yesterday, Wednesday, April 30, the former CEO of Fanuc Robotics came to talk to the robotics team.

The last few days have been very tense! Practice rounds were on Thursday. Qualifying rounds were played all of Friday after the opening speeches and the morning part of Saturday. The rest of Saturday was elimination rounds as well as the awards.

Team 1418 is headed off to the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Championship in
Atlanta, Georgia. Here are some links to information about this event:

This week will be very busy. We have something everyday just about. The schedule is as follows:

We are very happy to have rescued our original domain, team1418.org from the Labyrinth it had been trapped in for some time. This time, it's here to stay!

Many thanks to Andrew, who created our original 2008 site. Unfortunately, with all the work we put into the robot, we did not manage to get the site up on the web before now. Oh well, better late than never!