FIRST Catch Phrases
 

Hey all...
Our team is putting up a display thinger in our school, but I cannot think of any catch phrases for FIRST. Can I get some help??? The cornier the better.

Who Dat BBat?...
What Is Green?, What is mean?...
What time is it?...
OHM my!

"Set screws inhale loudly" - Woodie Flowers

Wasn't it "Set screws inhale audibly "?

Yes it was and still is.

You might be able to find something else useful in the Engineering Slogans thread or the spotlight list.

Woohoo! I corrected Andy Baker! That'll never happen again...

and my team has a saying we got after an accident with the OI..

"OIs are not plug-n-play!"

Here are two of 818's dumber slogans, but I don't know if this is what you want.

-Robot: The Other White Meat - amazing what gets said during the rush to finish the robot, isn't it?
-Todd's on Robotics! - this one has a very long story attached to it, which I can't get into here. Unfortunately, Todd isn't on Robotics anymore...

Hope these help.

I think he's looking for generic FIRST catch phrases, not ones that are team-specific.

Superbowl of Smarts
Sports for the Mind (c. 1999-2000)


Those are the only two FIRST slogans I remember off-hand

What about:

"Let's all go nuts! ROBOTS! ROBOTS!"

My teams slogan/motto we submitted to FIRST was.. "can't sleep... building robot" but that was prior to our school saying we can't have overnighters anymore. My personal favorite Woodie quote was from last years kickoff when they enabled the automode for the demo, nothing happened except one spun in circles and Woodie goes "I guess this is what they call autonomous chaos"

I don't know who said it, but it has stuck in my mind forever, and I have quoted it from time to time....

"DOWN WITH PANTS, UP WITH RANKINGS!"

A classic from the pre-short kickoff from woodies speaches was always emblazend in big red letters "Organized Chaos"

"It's a Robotics thing."

and one that's Animation speicific (cudos to Evan Anderson Decina to making this up a couple years ago... it's still awesome)

"Welcome to the Other Side of Robotics."

:]

Ooh, I like the "It's a robotics thing" and the phrases Gadget posted.

Let me explain: Our team is having a rookie meeting to tell the new members what they're getting themselves into. Besides school announcements, we're using a display case in the school to put words and pictures that we thought described FIRST (everything from robotics to engineering to public relations!) and to notify students about the meeting.

We wanted to put some sort of catchphrase in with everything else just to stick in people's minds ... something like "FIRST - is it in you?" -- nice and kinda corny so people will remember it!

Keep the ideas coming! Thanks everyone! :)

- Katie

"This isn't your father's science fair" ;)

I can't, I have robotics

That's pretty much been my motto for the past six years.

As for my personal favorite FIRST saying, I was always partial to "Got SPAM?"

"We put the fun in disfunctional "

-Don't you have a social life?
"FIRST is my social life."

Soda + Pizza = Robot

:D

Wetzel

"look at the screw from the nuts perspective" - Chris Carnevale

or

"pull out! its too big!" (refering to bolts too big for holes)

*shakes head*
Want him back?
:p ;) :D




Just kidding, I don't think we could function without Chris. He's the man. Plus, he provides hours and hours of amusement.

edit: "It made sense in my head before I said it!" /edit

"a robots diet includes many many speed holes!" a quote from this past build season when we weighed our bot and it showed up as 130.5 lbs

also there is the famous "It's not a problem, it's a feature!"

~Mike

My team might actually be able to take credit for this one.... SWEET!!
And it actually starts out with a hearty yell of, "Hey, Do you like pants?" You tend to get a few stares, then you start the forementioned chorus.

Anyways, There is the old classic, "We'll fix it in programming."

I know...my first two suggestions were weak. So I'm making up for it here. :)

Take a look at the CD Spotlight if you haven't already. There are a ton of great quotes in there.

One of my favorites, from Matt Leese: "If it's not on fire, it's a software problem. "

*grinds axe* I HATE THAT........

Another favorite of my team...well at least me

"Hey didn't we have another piston on this side?"

"Inch by Inch, we're going metric." -Dean Kamens

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE DUCT TAPE?!?!?" -me

"We really need a food sponsor..." -me

"Oops." -any rookie

but of course, top 10 FIRST lies:

"Yeah, we'll be ready for inspection."
"Our robot works fine!"
"Yes, that was an accident on the field."
"We'd never ram MOE."
"It's not my fault, I did it the right way!"
"Yes I'm a freshman. No I didn't get metal shavings in the electronics."
"I meant to do that."
"Our robot is ready!"
"We only need a minute to fix it."
"No, I don't know the prancing mascot."

Our team thing is "Feel the burn of Spicy Mustard" but I don't know if that'd qualify for a catch phrase for FIRST...

Does anyone remember which team had this on their t-shirts a few years back? Anyway, I remembered it just now and thought I'd share.

George

rapid smacking of MOEsticks

I always liked "Drive it like you stole it."

And, dare I say it, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hah. Good one.

how about:
"Robots - you *could* exist without them, but then what's the point of living?"

"FIRST, it's a way of life."

There was a team with blue shirts in St. Louis that had a cool saying last year:

"Robotics is life, everything else is just details."

I'd have to agree.

here's one "The hard we do now, the impossible just takes a little longer"

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what about the ever popular "6 weeks of insomnia and all i got was this stupid button!" i don't remember which team had this, but it was genius.

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LOL that one's awesome. I can't quite remember any catch phrases...one team I vaguely remember had something not doing with robotics..but "Kiss Me, I'm Not Hawaiian" Hehe. Funny stuff.
~Dori

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Old school Team 66
"Beware! The Penguins..."

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I know that the ohrase I find my self most commonly using during the build season is, "I can't, I have Robotics"

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This one gets all the laugs when I say it:

I need a nut, quick I need a nut! :ahh:

Of course, I say it in the way it is meant to be said, but it's not the words that are spoken, but the words that are perceived

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HA! That's a 237 thing...they started it in 01, but if anyone else has an earlier claim on it, I'd love to know :)

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ours might be ''we bust nuts'' depending on what our teacher approves

another- "Got Bot?"

off the top of my head
" you know you're adicted to first if you havent slept in 3 days"

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I like Hit it with a big hammer, if it breaks you needed to replace it anyway.

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no the most bestest is "HHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYYYYYYY". i can picture myself walking around 6flags for 3 hourse hearing that

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I had a project of person of the year for some class in school. I made it easier on myself and picked dean. I ended up making a Dean-isms page, and here's come of the quotes from it--
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

it's rare for me not see some evidence of FIRST on a city street

We give kids slogans like, 'Life is short, Play hard.' How about 'Life is short, Work hard'? You can have the hardest fun in the world.

You want to show children science and engineering? You don’t give them plastic paramecium on the folding table in the basement of the middle school. You show them scientists and engineers from major companies all over the country, and you show them that these engineers aren’t all old, bent, deranged looking white males with German accents out to blow up the world.

This is an extraordinary machine

There are big, big opportunities, but you roll this thing out and people say, 'Well, what use is it?' But of what use is the telephone — the first telephone? Who are you going to call? Of what use is the first computer?

The potential for the greatest positive impact on the world is FIRST. Because when you're sitting at the nationals and looking out at 20,000 kids in the arena at EPCOT — and these are kids who have unbelievable energy and imagination — you realize that they are the ones who are going to pretty much take over the leadership role in inventing and creating the products and services of the future, dealing with global warming, energy issues and health issues. And you look out there and think, because FIRST got them thinking about engineering and science, one of these kids is going to cure cancer. One of these kids is going to come up with some extraordinary technical achievement that'll create an entirely new field. And when you leverage that with introducing tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of kids to engineering andscience every year, well, the possibilities are just awesome Sports are an entertainment, a diversion. They’re an extracurricular thing, perceived as fun. I just looked at the whole model and asked, "Why can’t we create the same kind of enthusiasm and excitement for science and engineering and technology — that they are accessible, they’re fun, they’re rewarding?"

We learn to deal with failure, and deal with frustration


that's most of them, if anyone wants to see the whole sheet, lemme know.....i dont know what use they will be, but they're just fun

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lisa, the all powerful queen of the vertically challenged, has once again left me in a completely enlightened state.

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last year our team's motto was simply from the movie Finding Forrester... "You're the man now, dog" .... I still find it funny to this day :D

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one of the posts above triggered something that Dean (im pretty sure) had said at kickoff .. "This is the hardest fun you will ever have" (or something like that)

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alright here's my .02

"if it doesn't work, get a bigger hammer"

and

"engineers aren't boring people, we just get excited about boring things"

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who said that brilliant phase:
"if it does'nt work, use more velcro"?
:cool:
do you remember (last year)?

hugs ya'll

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hmmm

"alright, WHO LET THE MAGIC WHITE SMOKE OUT OF THE ELECTRONICS?!" was our phrase 2 years ago... heheh... Looked like a shroom cloud...

And one of my personal favorites is in my signature, "I know Mr Stokely [one of our mentors] wouldn't give me anything I couldn't handle, I just wish he didn't trust me so much!"

And...

"Experience is what ya get when ya don't get what you want." That is a BIG one for us. :yikes:

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Our catch phrase this year is "Fail often to succeed faster."

We printed it up on a big banner and hung it in our work area.

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Thank you to everyone who posted in this thread, and for the link to spotlite cuz I was having trouble finding it yesterday.

Our school's given us additional space upstairs for storage, and it had an unexpected bonus - a very cool clubroom. We are creating some mythology about it, and I used a lot of quotes from here and spotlite, word program, different cool fonts, the kids and I tore and tea stained the quotes.

Some of quotes weren't tea stained, and were posted in our downstairs bathroom that we share in common now with construction technology cuz the quotes were generic to tools and would apply to his class too.

A few stained quotes are posted around our downstairs facility - cuz they're really for FIRST.

The rest are for the ambience of our

Ancient Team's Room

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Our teams been using the expression "FIRST Its An Obsession"

Not to mention AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

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FIRST Frenzy: Who capped ya?

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What about... How many drill motors did you say we had left?? 50?? Not enough, order some more - pronto!!!

Not a catch phrase per say but true none the less... lol