Re: New divisions at nats?
 

ya, get rid of legos and have them enjoy the 15 min walk to the pits :D lol

Re: New divisions at nats?
 

I've gotta agree with Schuff - C'mon, Tesla is cool enough to have an <shamless plug> engineering charter school named after him </shamless plug> ;) and DaVinci was just awesome.

:yikes:

Re: New divisions at nats?
 

I'm all for the wrights idea.

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Since Newton represents the mechanics and gravitational side of physics, Archimedes represents fluid dynamics (maybe :confused: ), Galileo represents astronomy, and Curie represents Nuclear Physics (to some degree), there needs to be a person from Electronics and Magnetism recognized. The robot building is half mechanics and half E&M so E&M should also be recognized.
Maybe Gauss, Ampere, or Faraday

of course, its time that a field gets named after either an American or an Asian.
Joseph Henry
Edwin Hubble
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Benjamin Franklin
<insert other Prominent American Scientists here>
Industrial/Engineering:
Ford
Edison
Dean Kamen

Chandra
<instert other Asians here>

Re: New divisions at nats?
 

Copernicus and Da Vinci get my vote...

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Volta, Da Vinci, Edison,

and of course... BAKER and GRADY, the great andys!!!

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I say DaVinci and Franklin

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After hearing that we will soon be seeing advertising on the bases during professional baseball games, I will be happy as long as the fields are named after our pioneers in the sciences.

If we do have to sell out, how about "IBM Field" and "Pepsi Field" ?

Re: New divisions at nats?
 

Can I hear a Disney a Disney here??? How about Timken? Can I hear a Timken? What about Goodyear?? I'll give a cookie to whoever can guess what Disney invented. I expect all non-rookie people to know what Timken invented. If not then you either have not read the parts list or do not work on the robot.:)

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I cannot believe no one suggested this name:

The V-Neun division.

:D :p

Actually.

Remember how Dean said more scientist and engineers should be heroes or role models for the students? I think when you think of new names for the division, you should definitely keep that in mind. Imagine if you have to come up with a short list of 10 names to be top heroes from the science/engineering field, who would they be.

Personally, I have a lot of respect for Edison. I read about how he had major difficulties in school when he was young, and about how he was tiredlessly trying to invent new things even when he was small. I thought to myself, "He is a legendary inventor, but he is also a human being who never stop trying. Now that's someone to look up to."

Another scientist/engineer I look up to is R. Buckminster Fuller, who forever changed my view of the world ever since I saw a play about him and his experience. But I doubt he is as famous as Newton, Einstein, or Edison.


On the side note, I thought how cool it was when Blair went "Gal-il", and the crowd went "le-o" at the beginning of the finals in Atlanta. When you come up with names for new divisions, they better sound interesting when you say the name out loud.

I think I remember there used to be a Watt field back in the days, but it went away after the divisions were established since 2001. Boy, what a great decision that was.