April 5, 2003 RoboRama.03a Results

Held at The Science Place, Fair Park, Dallas, TX

Thanks to everyone and every robot who participated in RoboRama 03a! We had a great turnout, and had around seven new members sign up. Randy Dumse announced that his friend (and new best friend of every DPRG member), Mike Keesling, had made a very, very generous donation of two encoder-equipped Swiss gearmotors to each member of the DPRG.

The DPRG extends its thanks to:

• Master of Ceremonies: Kipton Morovec
• Judges: Ralph Tenny, Martin Meier, Eric Yundt. I also saw Bill James helping out.
• Sign-in, letter writing, planning, etc.: Vicky Taylor
• Scorekeeper: Teresa Trotman
• Scorecard transportation specialist: Travis Trotman
• Videographer: Cindy Rivers
• Course Set-up: John Drummond, John Drummond's truck, Martin Meier, Bill Cole, Chris Yahn, Jeff Koenig, Rita
• Forms, printing, etc.: Steve Rainwater and Susan Chance-Rainwater
• Award Printing: Earl Bollinger
• Typing, lots of typing: Jeff Koenig
• Mike Dodson - for letting us keep all of the club's oversized stuff in his warehouse
• Summer and Rita - for putting up with us, and being great hosts
• The Science Place - for letting use their awesome facilities
• The following business for the donation of prizes: Solutions-Cubed, Tanner Electronics, Gordon McComb, New Micros, Inc., Lynxmotion and Midwest Computer Recyclers

View this RoboRama in the Photo Gallery, or get the video from Gold Leopard Productions.