[team2039mentors] Re: FW: July 18 Lunch on the Lawn

Karen:  It has been awhile since we have talked.  Hamilton Sundstrand (HS) is planning a Lunch on the Lawn at our Alpine and Harrison location that is focused on education.  One of the goals is to promote the employee involvement in our local schools through mentorship in different school programs including US FIRST Robotics.  It is HS leaderships desire to increase employee volunteers such that we would in the short term be able to support a team at Eisenhower High School and in the long term the other 3 Rockford public high schools.  This would be the perfect venue for existing teams to be able to mentor upcoming local teams as well as promote US FIRST in general.  Lunch on the Lawn brings employees and their families together for a picnic lunch on the HS property.  They bring in food, tents, tables and chairs along with entertainment at times.  We have a dance floor being brought in for demonstrating our robots and we will be able to pass out info and collect names of interested individuals.  Rockford school officials and teachers are being invited.  We were hoping you could join Rockford Robotics and The Flaming Monkeys at this event which will run from 11:30AM to 1PM July 18^th.   Please let us know if you would be interested.

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Andreas has agreed to having an outreach event to Rockford Public School 205 teachers, as part of the July 18 Lunch on the Lawn.

As such, we would like to have the robotics teams do the demonstrations, as we’d discussed a few weeks ago. Hopefully that will still work with your teams.

Can you confirm some things, please:

1.       You can still do it…[BM]  Yes.  I will be meeting with a few mentors on the Rockford Robotics team to determine what we want to setup for a display.

2.       We will have a 28’x28’ piece of staging material rented for the robots. It will be a hard surface (dance floor, actually) that is only a couple of inches off the ground.  It would be most convenient to the layout of the event if we could have that surface on the parking lot. Will that work for you?[BM]  That would work great.

3.       I think I remember that you will be on battery packs, but if you need a power source, please let us know.[BM]  We will need power to charge the battery packs.  Also, we will need power for computers, because we would like to run 1 or 2 slide shows at a display.

4.       We’d like to have Rockford Robotics, Flaming Monkeys and Winnovations, if possible. I don’t have contact names for all – would you  mind contacting/arranging the attendance and demonstrations? Schedule-wise, we’d like the robots to demo (and have students on hand to discuss their robots) from 11-2:00, if possible.[BM]  Flaming Monkeys will be Rakesh and Jitendra (copied on this reply).  Ken, do you know who we can contact for Winnovation?

Any questions for us, at this point?

Thank you!

Colleen

Colleen Carroll

Manager, Communications, Rockford

Hamilton Sundstrand

office: 815-226-5428

mobile: 815-904-0865

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