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shyra1353
27-02-2005, 22:08
So what was your proudest moment(s) this season?
I will post mine later ...
Nate Edwards
27-02-2005, 22:24
My proudest moment (so far) was our local scrimmage when we capped a goal right after a team worked hard to get 6 on top of a side goal and when we capped we owned the row winning 41-19. Scrimmage overall was awesome, another time the other team didn't have a tetra all the way on, so using gracious professionalism we knocked it back on with our tetra and then capped on top of it. I have had fun being the president so far and we have had a great time during the build season and our team worked fluently together alot better this year as opposed to last year when egos clashed and many fights distracted our team from building. This year we cut down the time in the shop by at least 25%.
Watching our robot cap a vision tetra.
Greg Marra
27-02-2005, 22:24
After spending many a day doing nothing but cursing the CMUCam...
It was the last Sunday before ship, and we were trying to finish up the code on the camera. We had finally gotten access to our new camera mount and needed to make sure all the code still worked the way it did on the old one. We put the vision tetra in location 1 and waited to see what it returned. Completely wrong. We found that the angle was being flipped, so we fixed that and tried again. Completely wrong. We had our X and Ys flipped somewhere else. We tried again. Tetra One! We moved it to location 2. Tetra Two! 3: Three! 4: Four!
Yea, getting the CMUCam working was something alright.
ten3brousone
27-02-2005, 22:28
i've had 2 equally proud moments
our claw opening and closing
and the programming working :p
Watching our spirit team practice after hours new cheers for the regional night after night and seeing many otehr kids staying late working on the robot, programming and PAW room based activities. It's great to see the kids take ownership of the team.
Alex Cormier
27-02-2005, 22:30
my proudest moments were when we won the 2003 Buckeye Regional as a rookie , 2004 Buckeye Regional and Newton Champs also 3rd in world in 2004. can't wait till 05, it starts in 4 days!
Testing my limits using a pot on our final robot. Nothing very complex, but after all my endless hours of programming for the camera we never did get to actually test it because I was too busy to consider where to mount it! Thats going to be a task for thursday at our regional. But yeah watching my limits working perfectly the first time I tested them was pretty cool. Especially because I designed our entire superstructure and arm, and did about 2/3 of the work on them and they worked also. Its times like those that make all the stress and whatnot worth it.
Arefin Bari
27-02-2005, 23:25
... when the student built robot started running around and started capping goals. I couldn't just believe my eyes and think that I actually worked on that robot for the past 6 weeks and it does what it's suppose to do.
Shu Song
27-02-2005, 23:50
After 3 hours of mauling over why the CMU cam doesn't work, finally realizing the back up battery wasn't plugged in.
:) bust seriously though...
My proudest moment has got to be finishing the electronics board in time enough to give time for more than 2 hours of autonomous testing and debugging.
probizzle
28-02-2005, 00:01
Watching the arm pick a vision tetra up the first time.
Oh man the elegance with which it picked it up. And the speed. And the finesse. (This was autonomous btw, programmed by muah).
Remembering it still makes me smile :)
So what was your proudest moment(s) this season?
I will post mine later ... I'd have to say winning the Arizona reginal with teams 555 and 1492 (I think) it was fun winning a reginal my first year ^_^!!!! but to the other teams who lost, good games guys and we'll see whoever goes to Vegas.
Sincerely,
Zachary Panigot of team 1324
nobrakes8
25-03-2005, 19:51
When our team got our first regional victory, especially because it's the first ever robot that was mostly built by the students. (had 1 part that the mentors tooks control of without students)
Also proved my point high school students are smarter and better than engineers. (in 2003 and 2004 our robots were almost completely mentor built, and they finished close to last everywhere we went)
My proudest moment so far this season....
It is a hard call to make MOE has been very fortunate this year with being #1 seed at Pittsburgh and winning awards and such.
I have to say that the #1 proudest moment so far this year was listing to the 2004 Philadelphia regional Woodie Flowers winner ( Joe Perrito 365) announce the 2005 winner, Lou Rosanio 365!! I along with many other students worked on his essay. We are all extremely lucky to be able to work with someone who is so dedicated to the FIRST and the FLL program. Watching Joe's face as he read the pre made speech they gave him and then hearing him announce his friend and team mates name was one of the top 2 experiences of my 3 years in FIRST, My number one experience ever was watching Joe Perrito win Woodie Flowers..
I am sure there will be more to come, but i don't know many things that can top a mentor getting recognized for there hard work and dedication to FIRST.
Ian Curtis
25-03-2005, 20:10
My proudest moment this season was at the regional when not one thing broke on the robot. After spending the entirety of last years time between matches with a robot that could not function it was a big deal for us.
Bcahn836
25-03-2005, 20:24
Proudest Moment this season has got to be the Chesapeake regional, with that being my last competition and my team coming home in the top 5 and an award in hand. For all of the seniors including myself that might not get a chance to return next year it is nice to know the team is heading in the right direction, and will continue on passing on the gift it has given to me, the since of pride in seeing something you have worked on for weeks come together and do exactly what you meant it to do.
Driving a Finalist robot at GLR :) It was really exciting being only a rookie also (I had no clue what was going on half the time, lol). I have various times I was proud like capping over a high stacked goal, or flawlessly capping the center goal, etc.
StephLee
25-03-2005, 20:56
So what was your proudest moment(s) this season?
I will post mine later ...
Our proudest moments(as far as I'm concerned) would have to be when we were selected for the finals at the Chesapeake Regional, and when our team helped our alliance win during the second round of the quarter finals. We gave another team a bump to help them get out of a goal they were stuck in, and we pushed a tetra on that wasn't quite on, which I think broke a row.
tiffany34990
26-03-2005, 00:11
-watching my team having the ability to cap in auto mode especially since it was at our first competition
-learning how to tap using the milling machine for me was a top event
-winning the judges award @ UCF...finally some of the things i've pushed for chairmans finally fell through
-watching our sister team, Swampthing win UCF...one of my fav. memories of this season....great job ya guys!! so proud of you guys!!
Rick TYler
26-03-2005, 00:21
Wooden Thunder is kind of short. Even though it was designed and built to score three tetras on the center goal, our little guy was intended to be fast, nimble, and a prolific capper of the short goals. We figured that the 15-foot bots would duke it out on the center goal and we would score all the others.
My proudest moments, strangely, are the two times we capped the center goal in a competition. Once we over-capped a tetra from the other alliance on the center goal. It was like watching an 8th-grader dunk over Shaq.
(For what it's worth, except for the three rounds when our arm had been disabled by a programmer [aarg!] sticking his [aargh!] hands in the electrics, our strategy worked fine. We usually scored 3-5 tetras per round, and went 5-2 in our non-crippled rounds. If we hadn't -- I am not making this up -- had five different driving teams we probably would have done better.)
Allison K
26-03-2005, 00:56
I have quite a few proudest moments of this season. I'm so proud of my freshman for getting the entire team all pepped up and cheering. And I'm proud of the pit crew for working 13 hours straight on thursday of our first regional. And I'm proud of the drivers, for doing a great job, even while I was getting the hang of the coaching thing (It was my first year coaching). And the team in general. Their attitude and enthusiasm. It was a good year.
~Allison
thoughtful
26-03-2005, 01:36
My proudest moment this season was our ability to cap the goal in autonomous. This is my third year on the team. I have seen my team getting better and more effective. This year everything ran much smoother. I have great hopes for us this season. I know my team did their job, now i am just praying and ready for action :cool:
So far....
I thought it was when we made it through GLR with no breakdowns. I congratulated the team at our next meeting...
...but then I was even more proud when they said that it DID break down. And they fixed it. And none of the mentors or coaches ever knew it. Not that we would have helped them much, but they didn't even ASK us for help.
WOW!!! I have said that word a lot today LOL! My proudest moment: TODAY!!!! We won the First ever Waterloo Chairman's Award, beating out some amazing teams! (68,188,781,1305,1385,1114). This is our 2nd Chairmans in 2 years! WOW!!!! When they annouced our team, I jumped so far and was so proud of us!
dpasquariello
26-03-2005, 21:14
Our young team of 10 hung together very well during the grueling build season. they not only got the 'bot together in time to ship it, but did a fantastic job decorating the crate. They performed very well as a team, and managed to win Highest Rookie Seed at UTC.
Performance in the game was not what brought out their best. Adversity showed me how great they are. We had some technical difficulties that hurt us in the quarterfinals, and we had to pull ourselves out for the second match. Instead of looking for someone to blame, more than one team member said that he or she should know more; we didn't have enough redundancy built in.
I hope that they can keep this great attitude and pass it on to the new members as we grow the team. They really made it all worthwhile for me.
Scott team 48
26-03-2005, 21:23
The proudest moment for our team has to be what has just happened at the end of awards in Cleveland. We were listening and it came time for chairmans award and everyone was anxious and waiting the upcoming disappointment. My proudest moment has to have been when they started reading what the judges had to say about the winner and I recognized what they were saying as the same stuff that our whole team has been saying to the judges all weekend. When they finally announced it we all exploded. It is a great feeling that words can't even begin to describe. Its a great thing to finally get in the senior year of me, and many others, especially those who have worked so hard on it for the past four years.
lonewolf13
26-03-2005, 21:24
I would have to say my proudest moment was breaking our own record by a score of 121-8 in the semifinals of the Chesapeake regional. winning it and going to the nationals is a close second
Chris Sturrock
26-03-2005, 22:30
Hmm, my proudest moment would have to be from the Waterloo Regional this weekend. First, for those of you who don't know, I am from team 1503, part of the Niagara First Alliance. the NiagaraFIRST alliance consists of teams 1114, 1503, and 1680.
Anyway... this week, we all took home an award, so my proudest moment(s) were when simbotics (1114) took home the judges award for giving birth to 1503 and 1680. When we (spartonics, 1503) got to take home the rookie inspiration award, (lets just say I was so happy I jumped on Karthik), and when Fesstronics (1680) took home rookie all-star. I was so proud of all our teams. by the time I finished clapping, my hands were almost bleeding.
My proudest moment so far this season....
It is a hard call to make MOE has been very fortunate this year with being #1 seed at Pittsburgh and winning awards and such.
I have to say that the #1 proudest moment so far this year was listing to the 2004 Philadelphia regional Woodie Flowers winner ( Joe Perrito 365) announce the 2005 winner, Lou Rosanio 365!! I along with many other students worked on his essay. We are all extremely lucky to be able to work with someone who is so dedicated to the FIRST and the FLL program. Watching Joe's face as he read the pre made speech they gave him and then hearing him announce his friend and team mates name was one of the top 2 experiences of my 3 years in FIRST, My number one experience ever was watching Joe Perrito win Woodie Flowers..
I am sure there will be more to come, but i don't know many things that can top a mentor getting recognized for there hard work and dedication to FIRST.
I know I already posted but like I said in my other post there will be more to come..
Philly was my last regional as a student on MOE. I kept thinking all day "This will be the last time I will be here as a student on the team, the last time i will be able to talk to the judges and work on the robot". Today MOE won the Philly regional and also the Chairmans award. I am one of the students who works on the Chairmans team, Winning those awards while i was near my best friends was the best expernce I have ever had, what a way to go out as a student. I can't wait to see what my last National's as a student will be like....
Yan Wang
26-03-2005, 23:07
Being on the field driving with 33 and 1112 as our alliance won the only regional in 2004 with 2 fields, 74 teams, and international status, which 639 has attended since its beginning in 2002. Brought tears to my eyes. The Greater Toronto Regional in 6 days is the most anticipated event of the year for me and most members of this team. As for this year, I am very proud of the fact that we went into this season with enough money for one regional event and now will attend two regionals in addition to the championship event. There are 11 veteran members leaving after this year so the team effort has been tremendous.
MOEmaniac
26-03-2005, 23:12
I know I already posted but like I said in my other post there will be more to come..
Philly was my last regional as a student on MOE. I kept thinking all day "This will be the last time I will be here as a student on the team, the last time i will be able to talk to the judges and work on the robot". Today MOE won the Philly regional and also the Chairmans award. I am one of the students who works on the Chairmans team, Winning those awards while i was near my best friends was the best expernce I have ever had, what a way to go out as a student. I can't wait to see what my last National's as a student will be like....
Kyle pretty much just said my proudest moment cause I too was one of the students who worked on the Chairmans and to see all of our hard work pay off, especially when it is also my senior year and my last regional that I will be attending as a student on the team. To hear them say MOE365 as the winners of the Chairmans Award, it just brought me to my own little happy place in my mind, as childish as that may sound.
My proudest moment was seeing my old team, 237 kick some major robot turf in Rochester and then again in New Jersey.
Another would include watching team 195 do a fantastic job at UTC.
Keep up the good work you guys!
Justin1636
28-03-2005, 00:27
my proudest moment was being a rookie and finishing 3rd having the best average and winning 2 awards
Jaime648
28-03-2005, 01:13
i think our team was really proud when they beat the beast and wildstang(number 1 and 2 ranked teams) in the 2nd match of the finals.. even though we ended up loosing to them in our 3rd match by 1 point b/c we got a 10 point penalty after the match was over.and wining the spirit award in st. louis and the xerox creativity award in chicago
One of my proudest moments HAD to be walking down there to accept the Bruce Power Safety award (being safety captain and all). And knowing all of that yelling to put on safety glasses or turn on the flashing light paid off :)
Dillon Compton
28-03-2005, 12:49
I think my proudest moment of the season thus far was on the second day of qualifying matches at Philly. We were tied for last (I'm blaming it on no practice matches and testing out different drive teams), when all of a sudden we found two drive teams that worked. The announcer started saying things like "The blue alliance had best watch out for 1394", and we occupied in one match TWO robots on the opposing alliance in defense of our bot, and still managed to cap center.
It was pretty cool to know that even if we werent gonna win, or even get picked for the final rounds, we WERE playing competitvely with some of the best teams around...
Oh, and 'grats to MOE on their win!
our proudest moment was at the waterloo regional when we won with the help of team 68 and 1305. This was 1241's first regional won. my personal proudest moment was when i Tested my driving skills by pinning 2 robots in the corner at the waterloo regional.
We won the First ever Waterloo Chairman's Award, beating out some amazing teams! (68,188,781,1305,1385,1114).
I'm with Oliver on this one... there are, like others have said, no words to describe that feeling when you know you've put so many hours of hard work into something, and seeing your team succeed. Being a 3rd year student on a 3 year team, and seeing us win Chairman's two of these three years is something I'll never forget.
Justin Montois
28-03-2005, 16:28
I have two that top my list
1) Working Hard to coordinate a FLL Exhibition at the FLR which was awesome
2) FLR Chairmans Award. Knowing what the award stands for makes winning it absolutely amazing!
Chris V 1503
28-03-2005, 16:41
I'd have to say the same as Chris Sturrock. I'm also from team 1503 and those moments also were some of my proudest moments. The other one however for me was when we made it into the semi-finals and continued to work but to not make it to the finals. But the point is how well my co-driver did with me with our first time interaction with other teams robots.
So far this season my proudest moment was when I listened to two of our seniors practicing their presentation for the Chairman's Award, which focused on the impact that FIRST has had on them over the last four years.
there were many proud moments for me at the Philly regional. I would say our first match on Friday was pretty memorable, because our drive team was so nervous that when we won, we felt a mix of emotions. After we got knocked out of the finals, it was cool to hear everyone on our team stilll congratulating us and cheering.
Termite233
28-03-2005, 21:54
My proudest moment this season has definitely been in Denver when we were announced as receiving the Chairman's Award. I'm not bragging, just really proud...
My proudest moment this season has definitely been in Denver when we were announced as receiving the Chairman's Award. I'm not bragging, just really proud...
Don't apologize.
You have every right to be proud.
Marinesniper77
30-03-2005, 19:42
Being my first and only year on a FIRST Robotics Team, my proudest moments were on day 3 of the Midwest Regional. We went to 2-1 on qualifying matches (we were expecting to lose the third one but pulled it out :) ) and were the last pick for the finals (8 seed naturally) after being ranked 32nd.
To cap it off, I found out along with a couple other members of our team what a FIRST event is really like. The gracious professionalism is amazing along with the intensity the events have. If only I was not a senior going to a very strict school (see signature), I would be back for so much more. I may have to look into mentoring one of the schools in the new area.
danield710
30-03-2005, 19:47
this year ive had 2 equally proud moments, both occuring at regionals
1st was when our robot succesfully took a tetra off our back flawlessly and capped it quickly, one of the mentors was very happy that the strategy worked, even though we lost the match (it was a practice match); the second moment would be when we won the imagery award
JBotAlan
30-03-2005, 19:58
Umm...lets see...
Learned the difference between if(x=0) and if(x==0) :D
(involves a mishap where the turret rotated ~1500 degrees in 5-6 seconds, removing power cable to pneumatic solenoid rendering claw useless; :yikes: totally my fault)
But seriously, how I know we're gonna KICK BUTT tomorrow (Toronto Regional). I hope I get a chance to help someone on another team like the programmer from 547 helped me (THANK YOU).
George A.
30-03-2005, 20:10
I have a few. Getting al of the compliments for my play by play calling at NJ. It was my first time behind the mic and I was so nervous. Secondly having Randy Schaeffer and Don Bowers personally reccomend me to volunteer at Nats. Finally being on the field to see my HS team (11) win chairman's award at NJ. I know how much hard work they put into that team and to see them pull it out was amazing!
I get to volunteer at nats so I might have to edit this post later on
HPA_Robotics_13
31-03-2005, 04:10
I think my proudest moment as team captain was the moment I realized, on day two of the Denver Regional, that all of the HPA Robotics mentors present were either sitting in the stands above our pit, or watching the matches on the other side of the stadium. The team 833 pit was bustling with enthusiastic students, both veterans and young excited freshmen, who wanted to see our robot do well on the field. We managed to get inspected, organize ourselves for matches and mobilize, maintain safety in the pit, and stay in high spirits almost completely on our own, as a team truly made and led by the students.
It was truly amazing. I felt like I had turned our team into something that really reflected the goals of FIRST. Even though 833 did not make it to the quarterfinals at the Denver Regional, I was more happy with the team than when we won Pacific Northwest in 2002.
Way to go team :) :) :D :D
My proudest moment was when I helped our team win our first match of this year. All i remeber is being out of breath from running back and forth and feeling that rush you get when you know you have just accomplished something. Another one of my proud moments was watching two of the four teams from savannah (South Effingham and Johnson) get to finals.
My proudest moment was when our team won the "Delphi - 'Driving Tomorrow’s TechnologyTM'" award at Detroit. We owe it all to Matt Reiland for designing he drive system and the students who helped sell it to the Judges
dude__hi
31-03-2005, 19:37
My proudest moment overall was the moment where my team won Chairman's at the Arizona regional. but...
I think it was sooo cool when our team was in the semi-finals and all three of our opponents took on our lone bot. They pushed us into one of their corner tetras. We got out and still won the match but man was I exhilarated trying to steer the robot out of there.
----Look for the little blue bot at Nationals----
Dorienne
31-03-2005, 20:01
Definitely getting Finalists at Chesapeake this year. It was so exciting...my voice was so hoarse by Saturday night, but I didn't care. It was so thrilling and amazing..I'll never forget it.
dude__hi
31-03-2005, 20:04
I've got another.
Dean Camen was at the Arizona Regionals on the day of the Finals...Cool
Dean Camen spoke to one of the team's lego league teams we mentored..wow
Dean Camen spoke to me and congratulated us for our work on the ROV Competition and took a picture with us......WOW!!!!
Dean Camen presented the team with the Chairman's Award......WOW!!!!
Matt Krass
31-03-2005, 20:15
I've got another.
Dean Camen was at the Arizona Regionals on the day of the Finals...Cool
Dean Camen spoke to one of the team's lego league teams we mentored..wow
Dean Camen spoke to me and congratulated us for our work on the ROV Competition and took a picture with us......WOW!!!!
Dean Camen presented the team with the Chairman's Award......WOW!!!!
Kamen, not Camen, sort of common mistake.
My proudest moment? It's a tie between winning the first qual match of the regional, winning the GM award and having the autonomous work first time we put it on the field, and fail only once since due to a placement error.
dude__hi
31-03-2005, 20:23
Oops! :o
My brother actually has a t-shirt that Dean Kamen signed that was a good moment when he got that.
Kyle Love
31-03-2005, 20:33
My proudest moment this year was winning the Inspiration award. We lost chairmans to one of the best teams in FIRST, Wildstang. Winning the Inspiration award was the closest we have been to chairmans since, I believe, 2002, where we won a regional chairmans award. Hopefully, I will be able to report a more proud moment after the Championships. :rolleyes:
Vivelation
01-04-2005, 02:04
I've got a couple from this season... mentioned in the order that they occurred:
1) At SVR, waiting for the announcement of the AVA winner, hearing and seeing our animation on the screen, and just sitting there, stunned.
2) Also at SVR, watching my babies (team 1560) getting picked for alliances advancing to the quarterfinals, and later, finding out that they got Highest Seeded Rookie.
When my rookie team, ranked at 46 at that time allied with a team that was ranked in the 60s, with the third team missing, we managed to tie in a match with the #1 team, #8 team and #10s team. (0 : 0), we could have won with a 1:0 if our ally's human player didn't step out of boundary,
My proudest moment was when my son Robert aka rob27 a four year member and cocaptain of team RUSH 27, applied to and was excepted by four very good engeering schools. recieving merit based scolarships to all four. I feel First had much to do with this. Robert will be attending MIT in the fall. Thank you Kyle Hughes and FIRST!
Matt Fultz
04-04-2005, 09:33
My proudest moment this season was when Cyber Blue 234 made it to the semi-finals at the Boilermaker regional, losing 1 match to 2 to the number 1 seed alliance. The robot did great and we had a great time.
Laura 1547
04-04-2005, 19:45
I'd have to say that my proudest moment was when almost everybody on my team lost their voices after the first day at the Rochester regional and then went out and screamed again the second day...that and winning Rookie Inspiration in Rochester and Rookie All-Star in GTA. Oh and getting picked by the 6th place alliance when we were seed 42 was awsome!!
Mirza95vx
04-04-2005, 19:53
My proudest moment was when we won the Greater Toronto Regional with 1114 and 1305.
Alos i am very proud of our team making it to the finials three times in a row. Number one acomplishment for a rookie team.
Also very proud of winning all three rookie awards at three diffrent regionals.
Rolling Thunder is amazing
Laura 1547
04-04-2005, 19:55
is it true that rolling thunder actually dropped out of the running for Rookie All-Star at the GTA competition so that waldo would have a better chance of winning?? That's what someone on my team told me...
Mirza95vx
04-04-2005, 19:57
ALl of the rookies at GTR that had won rookie all star dropped out so that other rookies could have a chance to go to nationals.
Laura 1547
04-04-2005, 19:58
oh thats fun...i guess we'll see you there then!! maybe if like everything works out or whatever you guys could come cheer with us again!
Mirza95vx
04-04-2005, 20:02
We wanted to set up our teams together again at nationals so we can sit together and cheer again. We had a lot of fun cheering with you guys.
Laura 1547
04-04-2005, 20:04
I know..haha good times...you guys kept winning so many awards!! it was cool though how when we won all-star you like lined that alleyway thing into the main hall so that when we ran past we gave you high fives..was it planned that way or were you guys just coming back to your seats?
Mirza95vx
04-04-2005, 20:08
We were commign back when we heard that you guys won and then we just lined up and gave you guys high fives.
neilsonster
04-04-2005, 20:09
Mine was probably making it into the Finals at Rochester. I have never felt so excited and happy!!!
Also I loved losing my voice at every competition. It was especially fun when we had to go to Mississauga the week after Waterloo and I still didn't have my voice back and I was the only one in the pit for people to ask about our robot.. Yeesh that was fun, but painful :D.
My proudest moment came just Saturday. I was at work and another 04 grad of team 93 called me and told me team 93 was the champion of the Western Michagan Regional. Their first event win. I went back to work and I was really happy of what the current team members had accomplished, and knowing what bluiding blocks I set down for them to make those accomplishments, accomplishable.
I am very proud of team 93. I know this year the whole team must have worked hard to pull it off. It was deffinatly well deserved.
Congrats to everyone this year!!!
-Ryan
Keith Chester
04-04-2005, 20:10
Sitting across from a football coach and mentor of a team, who's telling me that he's seriously considering quitting football for his new FIRST team.
Watching him tell us how his kids, who he considered spoiled and overly competitive, once at the regional, jumped to the aid of a nearby team in aid.
The coach telling us that it already changed a few student's goals in life, even aiding those who were down on the wrong path.
The football coach telling us that he stood in front of his team with an empty budget, asking them that, if asked to go to nationals, who would be willing to work their butts off to pay to go. And getting every hand raised.
Having that coach look at my mentor and I, thanking us for helping start his team and aiding him throughout. Seeing the spirit of FIRST in his eyes.
But most of all, watching FIRST bestow them the honor of Rookie All Star.
There was no prouder moment for me, nor a better reminder of why I spend so much time a week trying to spread FIRST.
Iain McLeod
04-04-2005, 20:22
Mine was as Scott said before.... When they announced the Chairman's Award winner for LI and everything started sounding familiar for our team.... and when we won I got to ride on everyone's shoulders :rolleyes: and I was shouting "not with the award! Don't drop the award!!!" And I got to wear the pin on the medals from the regional and me and the drive team sort of stood there and looked at each other and we went crazy..
I'm raving a little. Can you tell?
Sorry of it sounds like bragging but I'm glad to be able to provide some sort of tangible benefit to the team and as chief scouter, videographer, and secretary, my work has much less visible results than for example the drive/build team or programmers.
So here's to all the robotics people who type, tape and scout.... :D
Oh man I definitely have a new proud moment from this season..It would be our final match of the GTA finals (well after the match)...Once we won, the driver from 1114 grabbed 1511's team flag, hit our flashing light and beeper and hopped right up onto our forklift/cart and started waving that thing like nothing else! His energy and spirit was amazing to see down there! Hope to have a new moment after the nationals :D
I have two proudest moments this season. One is, of course, winning the Detroit Regional (Thanks 245 and 301, couldn't have done it without ya!) Also, It was great when we owned evey goal in the first match of elims. World Domination!!
Matt Shea
04-04-2005, 21:57
My proudest moment this year would have to be my team winning BAE with 126 and 350
lonewolf13
04-04-2005, 22:17
I already posted here but there are a few things I'm proud of this year
1. winning the Chesapeake regional
2. beating the national high score twice and holding it for two weeks
3. only commiting one 10 point penalty (for ramming an opposing robot across the field and into our own alliance partner in the loading zone) in 2 regionals
4. being able to even attend the Nationals by new sponsors and fundraising efforts
5. being able to tell people about the FIRST program and seeing how a lot of people find it to be a very important program for the future of engineering in America
6. being a senior and seeing how much our team has grown and progressed into a well known member of the FIRST program
7. any person involved in this program
sammie771
05-04-2005, 20:07
So what was your proudest moment(s) this season?
I will post mine later ...
hhhmmm...good question Shyra. I would have to say our first win at GTR, after being disappointed twice by missing allied teams, failed programming and just getting beat it was extremely exciting. I was so proud of you guys. I am pretty sure I screamed so loud Alisha temporarily when deaf in her left ear.
P.S. Shyra, you never posted yours...unless I somehow missed it.
shyra1353
16-04-2005, 23:37
So I started this thread, but I never actually answered my own quetion. I actually have three proudest moments, one for 771, one for 1353, and one as my own personal one.
I was so proud of SWAT when I saw Mildread moving and stacking and working the way she should for the first time at competition. I was even prouder when we broke our losing streak at the end of Friday.
For 1353, only a fellow FIRSTer can know what was going through me when I heard an alliance captain choose team 1353 to be their alliance.
Now my own personal moment. This one was the reason I started the thread in the first place, but decided to wait until later to post. It was when my teacher and I were discussing universities, where I had been accepted, and where I want to go. He told me to go to University of Toronto instead of Waterloo so that I would be nearby and could mentor. To know that he thinks that I have the ability to be a mentor means so much to me because it showed me that he had recognized my hard work and believed in me.
So those are my proudest moments of the year ...
Barry Bonzack
17-04-2005, 19:10
My proudest moment was October 28th. This was the day that Principal Parker agreed he would still support and help fun a team at Harmony High. This was a relief due to the hurricanes that damaged our school, Mr. Fritts and I and I were not completely sure if his handshake earlier in the year still applied. This was also the day we got our team number, 1604. Everything after this point was gravy, if the team would not have won a single match nor an award this year, I would still be extremely proud of all the accomplishments that have come from that day.
Joe Domingo
17-04-2005, 21:31
So what was your proudest moment(s) this season?
I will post mine later ...
So far it must be watching my son Dominic (our arm operator ) sing the National Anthem at SVR then go to the controls, we had first match Saturday morning, we tipped over struggling for a tetra and Dominic got our bot back up using the arm,we rotate, extend and twist, God ! It was so cool to watch him get the bot back up and it didn't end there , we won that match and went on to win the regional thanks to teams 254 and 22.
:D
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