{"id":116643,"date":"2025-02-08T23:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=116643"},"modified":"2025-03-08T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:19:28","slug":"saturday-night-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/02\/08\/saturday-night-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was the satrt of my birthday weekend. We started the day with a ski.. we can walk right out of our back door and get on the tracks we’ve made.. First time in years the snow has been that deep and cosnistent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today was allso the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC)\u00a0 robotics championship.\u00a0

there were hundreds of young robot makers and their robos there to with their robots a it was so fun .

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A very accomplished young violinist played the star spangeld banner and we were off !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some of my FTC freinds from Essex

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We had a great keynote from Jeasne from Greensea IQ. SHe is a FIRST Alum from NY .. now workign in Richmond. We invited her to join the FIRST in VT board and she said YES !


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Scott did a great job as EmCEE as always !. He’re he is whereing his famous shark hat\u00a0 (he has a squid hat too !)

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GOt to talk to my freinds from CVU about their robot. I got Ben at Beta to print parts for this robot.. and they used it to win !. THey’re goign to worlds !


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ONe great surprise is I got to meet Adam from Montpellier. Adam is a friend i’ve worked with at http:\/\/hackclub.com but we’ve only worked together online. He lead a team to develop a Hackclub pranded raspberry pi nano based on teh RP2040. I’d never met him in person..He actually gave me\u00a0 0f the Orpheus Pico hed designed !\u00a0 They are so great !

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I enjoyed speakign with the coaches and refs too.. these are soem of the real heros of our robotics program. THis takes time and skill to do\u00a0


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Ran in to my old friends Kevin and judy

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It was a great event. Kudos to my friends Lyz, Joe and Mark for making it happen !

later in the evening Diane and I drove out to Bristol for dinner with our freinds Marie, Jordan and Wiki.. ristol is such a cute town We went to cubbers..a. place we used to go when we came out to see our midwifes here.\u00a0 \u00a0Broagt back good memories. B. Wiki had some weird chocolates.\u00a0 the perfect desert

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Diane, Marie, jordan and I walked down the street to the South Mountain Tavern to see the band Red Admiril. My good freind and sort of boss Ed plays harmonica and weird procussion for them. They were GREAT !!!!<\/p>\n

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We headed hom on the early side because we were just about to have another snow storm>>
great day !

nite all. nite sam
-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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