Wednesday, 20 February 2013

B.C. Championship Event – BCIT, Burnaby B.C.

The BC Championship results can be found at there:

http://bcrobotics.wordpress.com/b-c-championship-event-burnaby-b-c


B.C. Championship Event – BCIT, Burnaby B.C.

Hello Everyone,
The results from the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) – B.C. Regional Championship Tournament 2012/2013
Team 2641 – Prime Bot – Champion’s Award (First Place)
Team 9753 – Super Ninja Bunnies – Champion’s Award (Second Place)
Team 9753 – Super Ninja Bunnies – Robot Competition Winners (Robot Performance)
Team 2641 – Prime Bot – Mechanical Design
Team 968 – NEXT – Programming
Team 9753 – Super Ninja Bunnies – Strategy & Innovation
Team 2492 – The Hurricanes – Research
Team 2724 – White Rock Stars – Innovative Solution
Team 15036 – Band Of Brothers – Presentation
Team 13978 – The ‘G’ Gnomes – Inspiration
Team 3787 – INFINITY – Teamwork
Team 3475 – Memory Searchers – Gracious Professionalism
From BCIT – Media Relation office – Videos of the event can be found here:
All your efforts were greatly appreciated and from our perspective in Media Relations at BCIT the event did garner solid media coverage.  This is a very visual event and coverage was positive.
Total exposure of all media (print excluded as not yet published):
Total audience: 1,255,000 people nationally
Links to TV and radio coverage here
Coverage included CTV local and CTV national, GlobalBC, CBC, CKNW, Burnaby Now, Burnaby Newsleader, the World Journal, and The Official Chinese News Agency, Xinhua News. Two stories will also be published later this week in Burnaby’s two local papers.
Still photos from FLL at BCIT link:
Feel free to share or download these and use as needed with credit to BCIT please.
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Date: January 26, 2013
Location: BCIT – Burnaby Campus
Address: 3700 Willingdon Ave (Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Z2NLK)
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Contact Person: Brian Yu (FLL-BC@telus.net)
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Important Information Update (Jan 20)

Food Services Packages – is no longer offered by the tournament.  Please purchase food directly from the other food services venues within BCIT.
Practice Tables - there will be ‘No’ practice tables available for teams.  All teams will be provided a table to use in the main gym.  Gym access will be available starting at 10:00am.  Teams wishing to bring their field kits and parts may do so, and will be permitted to set up on the gym floor within your table space area.
Robot Competition - each team will be given 4 opportunities at the Robot Competition tables in the main gym.  Only the highest score will be counted.
Project Presentation and Judging Sessions - All Teams are encouraged to be well prepared for their presentation sessions.  Each team should bring copies of their Team Info sheet with them to all three sessions.  There will be no feed-back given at tournament.  Each team will have exactly 10 to 12 minutes to enter the presentation room, setup, complete their presentations and exit the room.
Please Supervise your team and young children at all times – there will not be children care services available at this tournament.  Please supervise your children accordingly.
Team Number - your team number is the official designation for your team.  Your team members will be asked repeatedly throughout the tournament for their team number.  it is critical that they know their number as their scores and results are tallied based on this number.  Official rankings and scores will be forwarded to FIRST Robotics based on the team’s official team number.
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Documents that you need:

BCIT Map: (SoE-visitors map)
Parking
Step 1 – Drop Off  - Parking Lot V5
Step 2 – Check In at Building Sw9 – Pick Up your parking pass
Step 3 – Park your car at: P7
Team Info Sheet (TeamInfoSheet)
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Live Broadcast/Video Streaming

This year, the B.C. Championship will be video streamed ‘live’ via the internet at the following address: http://www.bcit-broadcast.com/live/
This service is being provided by students from the Broadcast Communication Program of BCIT.  Live interviews will also be conducted by the broadcast students as well as the local media.
Taran Van Hemert is the producer and host for the televised portion of the FLL BC provincial championships.  Interviews will be conducted during the event on the 26th, with a wide variety of people, such as coaches, volunteers, team members, parents of team members, engineers, judges, and so on. All teams will have the opportunity to be interviewed by the broadcast students.  Anyone/teams interested in being interviewed should contact Taran Van Hemert (taranvanhemert@gmail.com) to make arrangements.  Teams not wishing to be on camera due to privacy concerns should opt out of the interview.  Please also contact Taran to make arrangement to minimize camera exposure.
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Accommodation: Accent Inn – Burnaby (http://www.accentinns.com/burnaby)
Shuttle(s) will be provided to travel to/from BCIT.
Rooms are reserved for BCIT FIRST LEGO League Robotics
        Group # 25882
Arriving: Jan 25, 2013
Departing: Jan 26, 2013
Rate: $89 plus tax – standard guest rooms with 1 king bed or 2 queen beds
Up to 4 people per room. First come first serve.
For reservations, please call Accent Inns Central Reservations @ 1-800-663-0298 and quote group 25882
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Parking Passes:
Each team will be given two (2) free parking pass.  Additional parking tickets will have to be purchased via the parking lot vending machines or at our check in table.
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For Division A competitors:
Judging will begin at 8:30am for most teams.  Please be on time for your judging sessions.
This is what the day will look like:
  • 8:30am to 11:30am Judging Sessions (Core Value, Robot Design, and Project Presentations)
  • 11:30am to 12:30pm Lunch, and Jr.FLL Presentations
  • 12:30pm to 1:00pm Opening Ceremony
  • 1:00pm to 3:30pm Robot Competition
  • 3:30pm to 4:00pm Awards Presentation
  • 4:30pm Cleanup and Departure
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Judging Schedule – Signup
JudgingCore ValueRobot DesignProject Presentation
8:30 am
8:45 am34751397815036
9:00 am272437872641
9:15 am1397897533475
9:30 am548015036249237879684913
9:45 am154572724
10:00 am9180968491334755480
10:15 am249226411545791809753 2724
10:30 pm96849131503654801397815457
10:45 pm37872641975391802492
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