Care to let us know how that happened? I can't stand the suspense... :D

I must find out why.. lol

Well, we were in there on the Sunday before ship, and our wonderful football and track coach, Mr. Merlo, decided to come in and use the school weight room. When he left, instead of just arming the sector of the alarm for the gym, he accidently armed the whole building. We were back in the Auto Shop, and we didn't even know what was going on until the cops showed up at our door. Seeing a bunch of cars parked behind the school, and an open door, one cop came in the back door, with his gun drawn, and scared the heck out of all of us. To make matters worse, an hour later, the janitor made the same mistake, bringing two cops this time, sans guns (fortunately). All in all, it was a pretty eventful weekend...

Heh I heard a lot of people saying this in reference to our robot - "Yeah we thought about doing that.... but then decided against it" ;)

For lunch in the pitt they have Rubber Chicken and breaded Rubber Fish.....your choice

And for those lucky people who were by Tidal Wave as we got off it you might remeber this.....
Our Shoes Are Squishy...

On one of the more late nights of the season (roughly 2am) our lead design engineer was drilling a mounting hole in the chasis for our drill motor platforms. After all 6 mounting holes were drilled and tapped, he tried to fit the motor mount on, successfully tightening 5 of the 6 allen bolts... the 6th, however, was one millimeter off. Now, lacking student support at 2am, he had tapped and drilled the holes himself. Upon realizing he had drilled the hole incorrectly, he stood back, looked at the chasis, and exclaimed simply and bluntly...


"This sucks."

coming into that final shipweek running on like 10 hours of sleep for the week

" I havn't slept for 10 days.. because that would be way to long "

ughh if Only i could remember everything said...

ohh and uhh at regional comp after like 0 sleep and no clue what to do I'm supposed to do alliance picks

" On behalf of team 710 we would like to add the.. assesstacne.. asetance .. as.. ohh man I can't talk.. how about 312 Heat wave joins us " ... in front of the whole regional and webcast woot woot

just couldn't get the word assistance out mayb

Haha, that's great. We have had several incidents where policemen come to our school while we were working late, but they never had guns. Everytime they came we would swarm around them and tell them about FIRST and show them the robot and be as excited as we could be :) I think they liked it though, one time one of them who had been before started telling his partner about us, so then we had to turn the 'bot on and give them a demo. Most of the time they ended up coming while we were eating too, so they weren't an inconvinience. Of course ... our school wasn't very happy about having police there :D

Stephen

I remember at the Hyatt in San Jose, after we fit 35 people into the hot tub (great times! :-) we all were trying to figure out our team numbers in binary and then hold it up on our hands (like the 'rock on' hand gestures, but much cooler). It ended up that the spicy mustard physics teacher flipped off his entire team, becuase that was what their team number was :-).
good stuff.

Heard over and over for about 5 weeks............
 

This heard repeatedly from Jeff and Jonathan on team 1037.......but only mostly late at night.....

"Oh crap! It doesn't fit!"
"We have to [pick one]
a) cut it again"
b) drill it again"
c) do it again"

quotes
 

Before the season started we were trying to decide on which regionals to go to. We started to talk about previous regionals when one of the freshmen blurted out "What state is Missouri in?" really loud so everyone heard it.

Of course there are others that shouldn't be posted.

Meh a little of topic but it is really funny with a room full of ap physics kids sticking there middle fingers up because they have to.

I also accidentally said "Dying would kill you" after a conversation that a lot of things cause cancer.
and then "Whoa he's using a pizza box!" I thought it was funny probabkly cuz it was just late. (I was doing programming trig on a pizza box, since there was no other paper in the room)
Purple Spikey Gearboxes is a nice "quote"...
and then there's "$@#$@#$@#$@# you! Wait, wait, how long have you been awake?" <-- mwa ha ha ha ha

My favorite quote was probaly our team engineer John Vukovich and he said "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPINION". Those of you who went to the Johnson space center saw that saying on the t-shirts. SO if its good enough for america's best its good enough for us rookies.

there's nothing wrong with my purple spikey gearboxes, tatsak!!! :-) there was the "Lauren Persuader" that was just a huge wrench used to hit things...including laurens :-). Or what actually got annoying was the programmers and electronics guys who kept saying "I guarantee it!!!" and it would never work! Oh, well... anyway, everything funny happened when it was too late to remember!

lauren

(and tatsak: do you have aim? i'm laurenmelynn if you do)