TechnoKats...
 

We the Technokats are

"The few, the proud, one of the orignals"

"Unchanged since 1992"


(Stole those from a Marines commercial and a Hersey Chocolate bar commercial)

And if u cant tell from that we are one of the few teams who have been in FIRST since 1992. Plus we've never changed sponsers or schools. :)

We didn't think we were particularly unique until we started looking around at other teams. Our robot was 104% built by High School students. No engineers, no college students, no teachers, no adults, no nothing. We have a couple of teachers/adults that are there to answer questions if and when we ask them b/c we're stumped or we don't know how to use some tool, but other than that all of our adults are basically completely uninvolved and of the mentality that we'll learn more doing something poorly on our own than watching them do something well. I've yet to see or hear of another team that's as completely student run as us.

Furthermore, we have nobody on our team or involved with our team that has ever been involved in FIRST in any way before this. No mentor team, and nobody joining us after branching off of another team. So we're more or less coming completely out of nowhere. It doesn't get much more rookie than this. :)

BTW, the 104% student built comes from the fact that when we had to cut 20 lbs in the final 12 hours of building, we did call on some adult man-power to help turn our robot into swiss cheese (we had 3 chassis punches going at once on the ball chute in the middle and we just needed more hands) . But since that was removing material, we actually had students construct more of our robot than is actually there.

We get to compete with u guyz then, cool :D

We work in Todd's house for 6 weeks.
We have the All knowing Dave.
We've been the cause of several rules being added. :D
We're the only NE Florida Girls Robotics Club that is also know as Team Resistance when the boys actually do something.

We have the all knowing, knows everybody Dave.
The one to be bald at nats.

My Dave is gonna have green streaks like last year.

Your Dave can NEVER be like their Dave. Now how was that for confusing?? Yeah, Dave is Dave, and their Dave is THE Dave.

we're S.P.A.M., 'nuff said :-D

Well, what make team #5, the Robo-Cards so special?

OK, here it is:

1. We have (another) Dave, Bob, Gary, Rob, and so many other people to mention here, but i am not gonna cuz u all don't have 3.5-4 hours to read it.

2. They have me!

3. We are a very, very small team, and i am 1 of the only 2 male students on this team. Our team has 9 chicks, better watch what i say..

4. We have no idea what we are going to do until we do it!

5. We where known as the "slinky team" for the 2000 year, and even had The Great Dean-O' come down to our pit for our slinkies at GLR.

6. Our engineers have donated over $3,000 from their own pockets, and they do not wish to be reimbursed!!

7. Did i mention we have Dave?

8. WE HAVE TONS OF DUCK TAPE!!!

9. Our team didn't have to drill tons of holes, just a few thousands...

and the 10th reasion our team is unique is....(drum roll)

10. WE HAVE DAVE AND BOB!!

:p

Mohawks are for those who play it safe...
 

If I am committed (or maybe it's "I should be committed") enough to make the challenge to my team that I will shave my head if we win at VCU, I want to know if I am the only one willing to risk their follicles.

OK, Adam and Carolyn, time to put your money, er hair, where your mouths are. Are you committed enough to challenge your team with the incentive: "win it and I shear it, or lose it and I keep it"? Or are you just an involved bystander? :) (at any given bacon and eggs breakfast the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed).

Hmmm. If this turn into a real trend, we could see at least 17 newly-shorn regional-winning noggins arriving at Nationals...

On the other hand, maybe the challenge SHOULD have been "if we win, I shave my head, if we lose, the rest of the team shaves THEIR heads"!!! Yeah, I can see it now, a whole team of polished pates. THAT would make our team unique! :D

-dave

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Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there, hair!
Shoulder length, longer (hair!)
Here baby, there mama, Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair! (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Flow it, Show it; Long as God can grow it, My Hair!

(extra credit quiz points: identify the date and place these lyrics were first publicly performed).

Re: Mohawks are for those who play it safe...
 

How does the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater on October 17, 1967 sound? I think I just earned some extra credit!:D

Re: Mohawks are for those who play it safe...
 

What makes us unique? Hmmm.

Well, our rookie year (last year) we broke 5 speed controllers during the building stage, and two more later. We had and continue to have no engineering help (really, our supposed sponsor, NJIT sent us a communications engineer who was specializing fiber optic line, and we spent a day explaining how to use pneumatics to her. This year the didn't even bother with that). Our sponsors live in our town. (Judy and Josh Weston, CEO of ADP ---THANK YOU) We have a team member who "went for a little walk" at 3 in the morning in the middle of Harlem last year at the columbia regional. We also have come up with and used our dollar shop soldering iron in no less than 17 different incorrect and unsafe ways, including but not limited to: Melting treads in wheels, melting carpet to the floor, making wooden signs, shrinking heat-shrink tubing, and creating small, scrap metal sculptures. We also turned our bridge from last year into this year's work table.