Upper Darby High School Robotics & Engineering Team, Team 357 (Royal Assault) from Drexel Hill PA has blasted the Philadelphia area media in response to Dean's homework assignment.

Royal Assault will be competing at the Philadelphia Regional Event at Drexel University's Physical & Education Center March 27 through March 29.

Emails started flowing on March 24 to the Philadelphia newspapers, television and radio stations.

Attached find a copy of the media list along with a copy of the press release and homework letter.

This thread was posted on the FIRST website in the forum for "Dean's Homework"

PRESS RELEASE:

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INVITATION TO COVER
Contact: Joseph Troy -or- Michael Crane
Phone: 610.789. 610.284.
610.389. 610.213.
E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]
Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering Team Returns Victorious from Pittsburgh Regional Robotics Competition?

DREXEL HILL, PENNSYLVANIA; March 24, 2008? The Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering Team returned home victorious from Pittsburgh after winning the 2008 Pittsburgh Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. Upper Darby???s team ? Royal Assault ? was joined by two teams from West Virginia to form an alliance that emerged victorious out of a field of 36 robots from, PA, WV, OH, MA, MI & NY. Students had just six weeks to design, build and program a robot to compete in this year???s game.

Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering Team Wins Engineering Awards at Pittsburgh Regional Robotics Competition?

In addition to winning the on field competition, the Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering Team won the Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award for the unique Mecanum wheel drive system used on the robot which has been refined over the past three years and includes a wheel hub which is patent pending. The team also has another patent pending design in use on their robot. Engineers and industry professionals judged this award.

The team was also presented with the Autodesk Visualization Award for their entry of a 30 second animation on the subject of recycling. Using professional animation software, the students had five weeks to design and produce their own animation.

Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering Team to Compete in The Philadelphia Regional FIRST Robotics Competition?

The Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering Team will compete at the Philadelphia Regional FIRST Robotics Competition at the Physical and Education Center, Drexel University March 27th through March 29th.

About The Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering Team
The Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering Team www.team357.org is a competitive FIRST Robotics Team from Drexel Hill, PA in their 9th year of competition.

About FIRST
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) www.usfirst.org is a multinational non-profit organization that aspires to transform culture, making science, math, engineering and technology as cool for kids as sports are today.

Please contact Mr. Joseph Troy at 610-789- or via e-mail: [email protected] for more information or visit the websites listed in this letter.

HOMEWORK LETTER:

March 2008

We are the award winning Upper Darby High School Robotics & Engineering Team (www.team357.org) from Drexel Hill, PA. We are a ninth year FIRST Robotics team (www.first.org). The mission of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is to change the way young people regard science, mathematics and technology and to inspire an appreciation for the real-life rewards and career opportunities in these fields. By immersing students in the world of engineering, FIRST provides students with the opportunity to experience the important connection between classroom lessons and real world applications. Through this program, students, teachers, engineers and technology professionals come together to design, build and program a robot within a project based, deadline driven, six-week schedule.

We have been asked this year by our founder and accomplished inventor, Dean Kamen, to seek out the media and to ask for your help in making the public aware of what FIRST Robotics is all about.

In 2006, members of Team 357 became involved with the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam program to develop an omni-directional wheelchair. We have successfully applied for and received two provisional patents designed and made for our 2007 robot. Two books feature two different award winning designs: FIRST Robots: Aim High: Behind the Design published in 2007 and, FIRST Robots: Rack ?N??? Roll: Behind the Design to be released April 2008. Projects like these have allowed the team to experience the invention process and use skills learned from FIRST to solve a real world problem.

The team is about to begin the 2008 FIRST Robotics competition season, with the game called ???FIRST OVERDRIVE??�. We will be attending the Pittsburgh Regional at the PITT Petersen Event Center, University of Pittsburgh March 13th through March 15th and the Philadelphia Regional at the Physical and Education Center, Drexel University March 27th through March 29th.

Theodore Roosevelt once said, ???Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.??� Royal Assault strives to exemplify Roosevelt???s quote not only through robot design but also volunteering in our community, finding ways to spread the message, and improving ourselves. As we look back, we see what we have accomplished; as we look forward, we see the things that are possible. We live each day determined to ???Dare Mighty Things.??�

Please give us the opportunity to show you some of the extraordinary things that we have done and help us bring the world of FIRST to the public.

Please contact Mr. Michael Crane at 610-213., or via e-mail: [email protected] for more information or visit the websites listed in this letter.

We look forward to sharing our excitement with you.

Yours sincerely,

The Upper Darby High School
Robotics & Engineering Team

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Article by Chris Troy
Posted on 2008-03-26