{"id":26,"date":"2016-04-10T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2020-10-23T05:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T09:25:54","slug":"kick-off","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick-off Event Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/21.jpg\" alt=\"21\" width=\"284\" height=\"184\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/22.jpg\" alt=\"22\" width=\"280\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I want to thank all the teams that attended the Grand Rapids Kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>Please let us know how to improve this event for next year.\u00a0 Hope to see you at the West Michigan Regional, and at next year&#8217;s kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Everts<br \/>\nKick-off Coordinator<br \/>\noffforkick@westmichiganregional.com<\/p>\n<p><b>Workshop Archives 2007<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Below are the workshops that were presented at Kick off. The presentations can be downloaded by selecting the link.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Stevens presented a workshop on Awards and Judges<br \/>\nTeam 1896 presented a workshop on Rookie Teams<br \/>\nKirk Hedlich presented a workshop on REC (Robot Educational Curriculum)<br \/>\nBy intelitek (the makers of Easy C). Intelitek provided demo CD\u2019s to hand out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marcy Van Every presented a workshop on FLL\u2014what a FRC team needs to do to sponsor a FLL team, time commitment etc.<\/p>\n<p>THE KICKOFF is the revealing of the 2007 Game Challenge, and the start of the intensive 6-week Design-Build phase of the competition. Teams will learn the game rules and objective for this year&#8217;s game, and can pick up their &#8216;kit of parts&#8217; from FIRST. Teams start their design brainstorming immediately after the kickoff, to meet the tight 6-week schedule for building their competition robot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to thank all the teams that attended the Grand Rapids Kickoff. Please let us know how to improve this event for next year.\u00a0 Hope to see you at&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/kick-off\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}