This year we are hosting an off season event based on the 2008 FIRST FRC Challenge, Overdrive! Teams will come from all over to compete here and take home the honor. The FirstBAA, an alliance of 10 teams in the Baltimore area, has banded together to host this event. We are a newcomer to the growing roster of off season events, and we hope to make this one of the premiere competitions on the east coast.

This year's event will take place at:

Park School of Baltimore
2425 Old Court Road, Baltimore, Maryland, 21208

Directions can be created from your location via this Google Maps page.
More information on the event can be found here. We hope to see you there!

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With less than 24 hours until we depart for Atlanta's FIRST Championships, the team is becoming really anxious, especially our newer members. Updates may still be possible, but the most likely case will be a wrap-up post on Monday about what the competition entailed.
The team will be staying in the Days Inn Atlanta Downtown hotel.

300 Spring Street NW

At Spring & Baker Street

Atlanta, GA, 30308 US

Phone: 404-523-1144

E-Mail: daysinnatlantadowntown@pattnigroup.com

Be sure to tune in! You can watch the event take place on NASA Select TV (Check your local listings, would be Channel 25 on Baltimore County Comcast) or via webcast on www.robotics.nasa.gov. We'll be on the Curie Field this year. Wish us luck!

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http://www.usfirst.org/who/content.aspx?id=8626

Looks like Atlanta Championships are still on, despite the hurricane damage. Events should remain on schedule as well.

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This is Zero, your friendly neighborhood web designer for the Technowarriors. I'm bringing this update on a more personal level, because of what has transpired over the past two weeks. Our attendance at both the Finger Lakes Regional in Rochester, NY and the Chesapeake Regional in Annapolis, MD...nothing short of Spectacular. Every year, the accomplishments our team makes best themselves constantly; our team gets bigger, our robots get better, and everyone finds out a bit more about us. Often, however, I'm able to update this website in a decently quick enough fashion, a quick evening uploading pictures and changing some text here and there. I designed the website to fit the aspect of quick updates on a practical yet graphically pleasing display. Even so, it may take me this entire week, even with help, to post everything that the past two weeks have brought about.

At Rochester, we won the Industrial Design Award for our simple robot design, quick repair efficiency, and the loud-annoying-effective safety beeper on our transport cart for moving the robot. Coincidentally, we had a breakage in Annapolis during Finals that we were able to fix in time thanks to our design. What happened the following week blew our minds.

Our team won, for the first time in our FIRST history, the coveted Chairman's Award for the Chesapeake Regional. As FIRST veterans know, this award is the highest honor that can be awarded by a regional event. It's hard to describe the jolts we all felt as the event announcer read off the award speech, pinpointing parts of our Chairman's Presentation. Oh, how the tears flowed. Greg Needel, a Warrior Alumni, joined us in the emotional celebration with his parents (our mentors). Even as the game announcer, he was oblivious to our victory just as we were. I'm also the head photographer and media man on the team, so those jolts pushed me to turn the knob on my camera ever closer to the video setting. On top of all that, Dean Kamen was there, gracing us with his technologically advanced presence and congratulating us as well. He even signed a couple of our items. To be part of a team to receive such an honor...and on my graduating year, too. Shock and awe, tons of it.
Be sure to check our gallery for video of both events, as well as newly uploaded photographs from both events. In the meantime, I'm going to keep looking at this medal to make sure it really exists.

If you haven't heard, Atlanta has been the victim of a tornado strike, damaging parts of Downtown, including the Georgia Dome and the neighboring Congress Center, were the Championships for FIRST take place annually. The future of the championships is still being decided, but until it has been decided that the event is canceled or postponed, the countdown on the front page will still count towards the Atlanta Championships. Stay with us for updates on the website and the Championships!

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December 15:
The Technowarriors are hosting a FIRST Tech Challenge scrimmage event at our own Woodlawn High School. The event is free and open to the public, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Directions can be created here.

January 5, 2008:
The FIRST Kickoff Event starts off the 2008 FRC season! Watch the kickoff Live at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, at a local Kickoff Event location, on Digital NASA TV, or online via the NASA Web cast.

January 10, 2008:
The Baltimore Area Alliance is hosting the 2008 Fund Raising Dinner, sponsored by Outback Steakhouse, at Dulaney High School. Tickets can be purchased from any BAA team, and run at $20/ticket. More details will follow.

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This is Zero, the head admin of the Technowarriors website and blog. I would like to personally apologize for the lack of updates between the Battle O' Baltimore and now. My schedule has been very convoluted between working on the present website and the new upgrade that was really due some time ago. Most of the work I did myself, when there were clearly others that were able to help but I never relied upon; this is my fault, and as of now, I am attempting to remedy it. While I can't confirm at this point, there will be one or two admins besides myself in the very near future, as team members and mentors, and several other members of the team filling different roles of the website as well. Our ever-expanding and improving website simply needs more hands.

Now, for the recap:

• The Technowarriors traveled to The Duel on the Delaware, an off-season Robotics event (actually hosted in New Jersey), despite our Homecoming day being on the same date. The team finished its run in the Quarterfinals, and the entire event was very lively and organized, especially to some of our newest members. We were also able to see FTC (FIRST Technical Challenge) matches take place, a new territory The Technowarriors haven't explored...
• Until Now! The team is attempting to build up an FTC team for our newest members to start off their first Technowarriors season. More on these developments in a later post.
• Our next off-season event (we like to keep ourselves busy) was the Brunswick Eruption, another event in the state of New Jersey.
• The Ramp Riot Off-Season event in Ambler, Pennsylvania was a real blast for the Warriors. We traveled all the way to the finals of the competition, thanks to a great robot, a great driving crew, and great team members.
• Media and footage of these events and more will be posted in a later update, hopefully by the week's end.
  
• As I stated earlier, there are indeed new features coming to the website. Whether they will come before or after the redesign is still in planning, however.
  

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This Saturday, why go to the movies and pay to see fake robots fight, when you can see real ones go at it for free? It's the Battle O' Baltimore at Western Technical High School!

"This year we are hosting an off season event based on the 2007 FIRST FRC Challenge, Rack 'N' Roll! Teams will come from all over to compete here and take home the honor of winning Maryland's first off season event. The FirstBAA, an alliance of 10 teams in the Baltimore area, has banded together to host this event. We are a newcomer to the growing roster of off season events, and we hope to make this one of the premiere competitions on the east coast."

More details can be found on the Battle O' Baltimore website, including schedules, directions, and hotel info. If you're on Facebook, join the event and spread the news.

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Hello, and we hope you visitors are having fun this Summer! The team has several events planned out for July and August; we hope you'll come out, have fun, and cheer us on!

• July 14th: Family Fun Day @ the MNG 5th Reg. Armory
  
• July 20th: Tech Conference @ BWI
• August 11: The Battle O' Baltimore
  

We're also signed up for other events, including the Ramp Riot, Duel on the Delaware, and the Brunswick Eruption. More details on these events will be posted in the future.

The Calendar has been updated, as well as several other site details. Please check the Events page for more information, stored within the calendar.

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Today's the day! We're off to Atlanta for the FRC Championships!
Just because we're gone doesn't mean we'll be out of touch, though. There will still be updates from Atlanta, and the Picasa gallery will be updated daily. Here are some site updates for you all:

• The Homepage has been changed, as you saw. Team and Website updates can now be found in the Updates tab of the site.
• The Navigation Bar has been shrunken and fixed to prevent over-reaching past the site borders. The Updates tab has also been added.
• We have a new Gallery section in Alpha testing. Expect it soon!
• The Contacts page has been updated. There's a picture of our school now!
• The Picasa gallery has new pictures! If you haven't seen them, pictures from the Chesapeake Regional have been added!
• The Downloads page has been renamed to the Extras Page.
• Some of the button templates we created last year are in the Extras Page. Download, Print, and Show Off!
  

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