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Team Unlimited is grateful for the gracious invitation from Vince Frascella,
the FTC Partner for New Jersey, to attend the FTC software training seminar
presented Saturday (July 19th 2008) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
The session was arranged by the NJ FTC Planning Committee, and featured Bill
Carey of Team Overdrive (FTC 74) training on NXT-G, Steve Rhoads of the
TechnoMages (FTC 11) training on RobotC, and Jeff Steele of National Instruments
training on LabVIEW. It was extremely valuable for to be exposed to all
three environments in one day (although a bit intense), in order to compare and
contrast, as well as learn some of the basics. They each have unique
strengths, and we feel that each has an important place in the FTC coding
toolkit.
The final competition served to cap the day, with FTC 6
(Driven Nuts from PA) winning for the RobotC, FRC 2070 from (Pirates from
Ridgefield NJ) winning for LabVIEW, and Montclair Robotics (from NJ) winning for
NXT-G and Overall.
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RobotC Session
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Vince Frascella
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Steve Rhoads, instructor
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RobotC debugger
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NXT-G class
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Bill Carey, instructor
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Lunch
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NJIT buildings
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LabVIEW class
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Jeff Steele, instructor
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Selecting code focus
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Testing w/RobotC
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Competition
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RobotC winner
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LabVIEW winners
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NXT-G & Overall winners
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