Whats unique about ur team?
 

Everyone seems to be going thru the same struggles, strategies, obstacles, experiences but what sets your team apart from the rest of the League? Here's your chance to let everyone know whats so "special" or not about your team, random or not, doesn't matter.

I'll start it off......

1.) We're the ONLY all boy high school participating on a team in the FIRST robotics league.

2.) I THINK we're the only team so far to give out glowsticks.

3.) We have no professional engineers building/helping with our robot (though I'm sure other teams have this problem). Our robot was built ONLY by college students and several high school students. Miracle, aint it??

Bellarmine College Prep (Cheesy Poofs 254) is an all boy HS

Crescent School (Crescent Robotics - Team 610) is also an all boy school.

Team 401
 

Team 401 has been built by college students and high school students for 3 years (to be 100 % honest we have had quite limited support from a few engineers, one, a students dad, and the other a VT alumn who is a manufacturing engineer, though it both cases there contributions were small relative to the total span of the project *hope i don't sound ungrateful, they did still help the team out*)
I'd also be willing to bet we're among the earlier second generation teams (teams spawned by graduates of other FIRST teams at some of the best engineering schools in the country)
We're also unusually fond of polycarbonate (take a look at last year's 8 inch tall sherman tank made with no structural metal)
and here's a shameless plug for this year's robot

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...rrow=4&trows=3

featuring the polycarb scoop, conveyor cover, basket liner, arm latches and certain motor mounts and more.

There's probably more that will come to me in a day or so when i've completely caught up on sleep

~Scott

Our team Always has hundreds of weight reduc. holes that has become our trademark and we have a really cool team mascot named Mr. Volcano

We have Dave.

Did you everr host the Championship in your gym?
 

We're probably the only rookie team to have hosted a FIRST Championship in our gym. Not a regional - this was before regionals.
There are other high schools who have hosted Championships of course but not their first year in FIRST.
We're a rookie team for the second time as it has been quite a few years since we first were in FIRST and no one who was part of those long ago teams is still at the school.

Well, I love my team and it is regretible that this is my last year with FIRST as a student, but we are a unique team.

1) We are a rookie team for the second time. The second year of FIRST, we created a team and were host to the national (and only) competition. After the third year, we lost our sponsor. Now we found an new one: MIT's Lincoln Labs.

2) Fog. Used as a general purpose explitive, especially since the fog machine we were going to use when unvailing our robot set off the fire alarms.

3) We got the whole bottom floor of the Catholic Charaties Building, but only for this year.

hey
 

when i read this post i thought.....hmmmm what makes our team special? I really can't say that were any more special than anyone else, i myself being a first time first participant was a little reluctent to join but i fit right in with team 316, almost as though i was adopted or somethin, we have family dinners and were all like brothers and sisters. (yes there are the usual arguments between borhters and sisters!) I think were special because we have the respect that most people dont have for everyone else we try to cider "Gracious Professionalism" but during the end of crunch time "Malicous Professionalism was more like it, but we always have "MOM" to remind us where our minds should be i mean me and Sam errrr i mean Sam and I always try to keep FIRST, first. Oh well i guess were your ordinary run of the mill FIRST team.

Hey E-mail us at luatecs316@yahoo.com and let us hear your comments

1st Canadian Team in FIRST :D and we work out of a house (thx Mr. & Mrs. A!)

We're from Brazil... :D

Our name (R.A.G.E.), I think.

If I am correct, you are not going to VCU this year, but to Washington State. :(
You will be missed.

Yeah, VCU filled up just too fast for us to get in. We'll surely miss going there and meeting all those wonderful teams, but we are confident Seattle will be great as well. Maybe at Nationals? :)