Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I am no noob and i hate when people say that word noob make up a new word that sounds better and doesn't make them feel stupid and inferior

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I think it is better to memorize certain commands than just click reply, then type and edit accordingly. that way you could just do it on quick reply. I am thinking that a list should be compiled here to help out.

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I've been to many forums, and n00b is usually derogatory of new people who think that they're in control.

Newbie, however, is much more positive than n00b...I know my team mates don't mean n00b in the definition I know, but still...

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I'll call you hamsters then in this post. I don't think hamsters could be insulting because most people would say it makes no sense.

(The term comes from 2001 on team 360. The power went out and we had to turn a lathe by hand to finish a piece. The people who turned it the most turned out to be our animation team and new members because they didn't know how to do anything else on the robot. The piece they rotated reminded them of a hamster wheel and so the people who rotated it were named hamsters).

It's great that this has all been brought up and considered...but there is one thing I am slightly worried about. Often the people who are most condescending (and in this case sometimes vicious) are those who just escaped hamster status. It's a pretty well accepted idea...just look at the derivative of the word "sophomore."

I am afraid that while long-time readers may see this thread and think twice about their negative reputation sometimes-readers may not read this thread. This implies that while this thread is good it alone may not change the problems hamsters face.

Looking at the way this thread (once declared hamster-friendly) has taken off in a thousand other small topics perhaps it would be a good idea to have a "hamster corner" sort of forum. There people could ask their questions and perhaps a hamster would repeat a question once or twice but it would not clutter the main forums. It also could be a nice safe friendly area for hamsters to not feel intimidated posting.

I know that currently there is a warning that shows up if you post in the programming forum with under 10 posts on your account...perhaps there could be a clause in it to recommend you to the newbie forum if you have under 10 posts.

Anyway that solution sounds to me like it would make everybody happy...except well for the people who run Chiefdelphi because it is more work on their hands. I do hope however that the idea is at least considered.

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*Crys* Very well said!!!

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If you break a rule, you lose reputation. it is as simple as that. it really doesn't matter if you are a veteran or not; if you do something wrong you deserve to pay for it.

if we were to weigh out decisions as suggested, a sort of system of "well I'm almost a newbie! give me a break!" would occur. The dead band of not knowing the rule well enough would increase to infinite.

Hopefully, if the so called newbie (who should hopefully be a more mature high schooler) will be mature and reasonable enough to figure out that they did something wrong and learn not to do it again. it is a learning experience.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Wen is it goin to be on tv and what channel and what time

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

the regionals would be broadcasted on saturdays only on NASA tv. the channel, however would vary by your tv provider. to check the listings or find the link to stream it on your computer, go to usfirst.org. there should be a link somewhere on the website.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

yo i'm new to this forum.

whats up.

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Sorta new, signed up a loooooonnng time ago though!

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Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hi ny name is Greg, I am the current GM for team 1516, I am new to this peticular forum, but not new to posting in forums. This will be my third year in robotics, I am a senior at California High School. We entered the 2006 California games, and the aliance we were paired with did very well in winning the overall event. Big thanks to 254 and 698(?). But in all honesty we got very lucky because our shooter failed to work well later in the day and we resorted to playing defense. Anywho I hope to become a regular around here, and wish everybody well.

Greg Boehm
Team 1516 GM

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

No matter whether you're a newbie or not, there is always going to be SOMEONE who doesn't agree with what you post, or how you post it. Negative reputation is a part of life, mabye it doesn't put a red dot next to your name or in your user CP, but people are confronted with it every day. Yeah, it's important to usher the newbies in with a bit of a rule-breaking grace, but you have to learn to live with disagreement.

Well said, Fin. :D

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Hey all!
As you can all see, I am a new member in this forum. So welcome me! lol

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ooh i like this cuz im a newbie. gosh ppl r nice. but i bet that the same "newbies" will do the same to other "newbies" after a while and that would be pretty ironic

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I agree completly, but Im confused. If people don't want old threads brought up, or same questions asked multiple times, then how are noobies supposed to ask questions without making a new thread or bringing up the old one? Not all topics are new, but not all their questions may be answered.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

This is one where some people like it one way, some like it another. What I try to do is search for the old thread, see if my questions have been answered, and if they haven't (and it's a year or so old), I'll ask my question, linking to the old thread as similar content but not answering.

Like I said, it's personal preference. For the most part, we'd rather you bring back the old thread if you're choosing between the two. If someone neg reps you for bringing back an old thread, tell us and we'll yell at them (hehe).

Welcome to all of our Newbies 2007!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I am a 2-3 year competition veteran, and a new member at chief delphi, and everyone here seems to be as nice as they are at the competition. Very gracious, you might say. Tell me if I say something stupid, so I won't later though ;)

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hello all. I am Clint and I am on Team 2180. We are a rookie team thus being our first FRC competition. We competed in the VEX Challenge earlier this year and won Chairman's Award at the NJ Regional. Hopefully we can pull off the same feat again at the NJ Regional in Trenton. Hope to meet some of you at the competition. We dont mind any help or suggestions that you guys throw out there for us. We need all the help we can actually get. :)

This site looks to be great and everyone seems so friendly. Hopefully I can help contribute to the site as well as other members. Thanks for having me here guys and gals!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Welcome Clint, and goo luck to your team this year!

:]

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My name is Chuck, from team 1111, the Powerhawks. I just joined today, but go look up the team video at YouTube; its under saftey dance. Hope everyone has a good robot this year! Good luck!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hey everypeoples, I'm David on Team 964, whose team name is currently pending, as is the robot's. I've been following 964 for a couple of years. Anyway, this is my rookie year, I'm in the 11th grade, and am hoping to have fun on our way to the top!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hi, I'm Jilana from team 1306. I joined here months ago, but never got around to posting until now. This will be my team's (and my) fourth year in the FRC. I'm a senior this year, and I'm really excited for this season! My team's off to a better start this year than we ever have been before. :D

Edit: Wow, I never realized it's been more than a year since I joined here without posting at all!

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I love all of you for spelling "Newbies" correctly.

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Hey everyone. :-)

I'm a n00b and pretty much the first person to join CD from my team, team 483 aka: Pankow G.E.A.R.S.. Sooooo.... hi!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I like the reputation system, but guiding a newbie is infinitely more helpful than throwing a little red dot at them.

I think I'm too much of a newbie myself to get too far into detail with my opinion on forum policy.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hey guys, I've been lurking on the forums for much too long and finally have got around to making an account. Thank you for this excellent resource, team 47.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hey, I'm Chris from 217-ThunderChickens, based in Sterling Heights, Michigan. This fall, I'll be a junior and entering my second year as a team member.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hello, I'm Kelley and I'm a member of team 1293 [D5 Robotics]!

I'm basically the communist of my team, and though this is technically my rookie year on 1293, I know everyone on the team and such... :]

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I'm not new to CD, but here goes

I'm Otaku, aka Michael Baker. I'm the team chassis geek and one of the two communists on the team (what this has to do with anything, I don't know. But I do want to name this year's bot "Lenin").

I'm also the team's unofficial emissary/socialite.

If any teams or people need help with chassis work or drivetrains, feel free to ask me. I'm not ace at drivetrains, but I've learned my fair share. I'm also on the pneumatics team, but since our team doesn't use pneumatics, I'm not very experienced in the field.


So, welcome to CD everybody.

-Otaku, 675

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Hey I'm Suraj from team 548, i just registered a few days ago :cool: .
I like engineering and stuff and i hope i get a lot from this forum :D .

~ Suraj ~

EDIT: I have been on the Robotics team for 1 year, im starting my freshman year

BTW: Skullandbones, just curious but what school do you goto?
i used to live in sterling heights :)
PM me

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hi I'm Elodie and I'm a newbie in team 1072.

I'm one of the only girls in electrical, and the only girl in marketing. I'm the one stuck who is gonna be stuck with writing up the website.

Its seems to be quite fun right now, and all the people in this forum are so nice! I can't wait for build season to start. =]

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I understand the reasoning of this thread and I had a similar thing happen to me once. However, don't worry about it. They are not going to form an angry mob. And the points really don't matter. However, it is fun to give the newbie's a hard time. (more fun in person). So, I am not saying don't give them a hard time. Just don't scare them while doing it. When you do that, it is no longer 'just having fun', then it is 'just being mean'.

Also, since everyone has been posting a brief description:
I am Molten (AKA: Jason). I know most of what there is to know on Inventor and am known for thinking outside of the box. If you need any help just send me a PM.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Welcome newbie. :)

Wetzel
I heard there was a pool somewhere....

Help please...
 

Hey i represent Chap Robotics (Team 2468) and we are a first year team out of Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. I was wondering if anyone can send me a link to schematics for a scissor lift cart we can put in our pit. :D Maybe even a motorized one... ;)

Thanks

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hello all, I represent team 2402 from James Monroe High School in Fredericksburg, VA, and we are a first year team. So far, cabman1 is the only other member here from our team.

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I saw welcome newbies My team is a newb (sadly) T_T. 2606 from Minnesota.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

hi im Josh im from Team 1507 the Warlocks www.warlocks1507.com

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Im Neel representing the War Hawks, team 2554 from Edison, NJ
any rookies in the house going to CT?

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yeah newbies.

2606

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Hey I am a noob... I signed up early this year and haven't really been on here... I have a few questions...I am from team 698 in Chandler AZ

Is the night before the kick off classes worth it?

has anyone else had problems finding other teachers to help for afterschool work?

Are there many girls in this?Cause I am the only girl on our team and I get stuck doing paperwork..

Is there a version of solidworks that is Vista Compatible....I know vista is the devil but I have to run it on my laptop or I loose my sound and video?

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hey Welcome!

You'll find that the more info you try to get your hands on the better off you'll be so make the effort to learn something new at these free seminars if you can make it.

Also there are plenty of girls in the FIRST. Though it is still a minority in general you'll meet alot of great peers. For instance my team has typically 50% girls on our team of 35 students.


Welcome aboard and enjoy the ride. As in anything in life the more you put into it the more you'll get out of it!

Ellery

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Suppose I'll post a hello here.

I'm the lead forums/web guy for Atholton Robotics (Team 2537).

*wave*

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Since I've just joined I figure this is a good place to go. This is my first year, I'm a junior, and I'm mainly a programmer. Team 16, Baxter Bomb Squad.

Howdy?

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Juan,
Welcome, Baxter has a long history here and we are always glad to hear from Mountain Home. I see you are on the list for the Midwest Regional. It has been a long time, glad to see you are back. Say hi to everyone there.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

We've been having a few problems finding teachers when our mentor isnt available. Just go around the school and ask any cool teacher you know, preferably math or science teachers, if they could stay late one or two nights a week. Our team offers compensation to teachers for their time, mostly in the form of food.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

You might want to have some parents check in with the admin. Perhaps there is some paperwork they could complete so that they could be a standby person when the teacher cant be there. It might be as easy as becoming a PTA member or just fillilng out chaparone paperwork. Sometimes when admins see parents willing to be involved they can stretch the rules. You could also see if someone from the custodial staff could be the "school" rep for nights like this.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hello everybody!

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Hi
casey\fem\20\CA

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weird i like the thread though because many new members do not post anything that goes against the rules without knowing it....they may not mean it and just need another chance.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Might as well introduce myself here...

I'm Nicholas Adams from Louisiana of team 1859, going to the Ottawa regionals. This is my team's third year but my own first year in Robotics, and I was so hopeless when the year started that I couldn't even use a drill right. And now I can program our robot(not completely, but most of it anways). We even got the autonomous mode working right.

I don't think you'll have to worry about me breaking rules. I go to about four other alive forums regularly; three of them are extremely strict, and the other I'm an admin at.

So, hey, everybody.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hi!

My name is Trinidad Del Real I'm 17 years old, and i'm of the first Chilean team of FRC -2157-, we are very filled with enthusiasm in spite of taking part this year, and to be enlarging our team in the whole country.

:D !
sorry for the bad englishh:o

Bye!!:)

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

thanks for making us feel welcome.

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Trini,
You don't know how happy we are that your team is now in FIRST. How wonderful for you to be the first team from Chile. Good luck to you and your team!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Thank youuuuuuuuuuu!!!! :D :D !!


see youuuu! :) and really thank's for the good wishes! Luckily for all!


:D

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

So you should search before you post, but if you want to say something, you can't, because then you are bringing back the old thread! lol

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Bienvenido a ChiefDelphi!

Wetzel

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

thanks! :D :D :D

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HI,
My name is Daniel, 17 years old, belong to team FRC-395

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Hello, everyone,
My name is Olga (not very appealing, I know...), 17, I belong to the team 2007 which competed in the Peachtree Regional, it was their second year. Mostly I am a "scout" person, because due to my horrible social skills I joined my robotics team only in January and I wasn't well aware of what is going on. I hope to catch up with everything next year since that's my last year of high school, unfortunately. Constant school switching pretty much killed my extracurriculars - this school doesn't even have lacrosse. :(

I don't think any other person on my team is much aware of what's going on here, so I decided to register and see if I can gather any information before next years competition.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Welcome to the family.

-Vivek

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I'm a n00b too.

Why is it so bad to bring back an old thread?
I understand repetitive questions, but what if was just an awesome thread...

and whats proper ettiquette for asking "can you please resay that in words that an educated-student-with-little-to-none-tech-terms-knowledge-but-still-knows-robots can understand"?

(sorry about the long hyphenated phrase.
its hard to sum it into a few terms)

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Reviving old threads can often be quite confusing. Here's an example:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=57061

This thread was started last year. If someone sees this thread on the Portal or the top of the forum they will likely click on it and begin reading without checking the thread date. The part about San Diego is not true for this year and all the links in the first post are to Rack and Roll matches.

With regards to your second question it is easiest for someone to elaborate if you can be as specific as possible about what you don't understand (terms, concepts or whatever). Sometimes this is not possible and people will still try to help in that case but it is more difficult.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

hey i was wondering how doe sone go about making a forum on this site

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Welcome abroad vivek

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hey there. I wouldn't exactly consider myself a n00b, but I haven't been around quite as long as some of the old-timers. Anywho, I have a proposal for the CD community. It comes from one of my other loves, Alternate Reality Games. On one of the forums devoted to discussing the aforementioned games, there is also the issue with newbies discussing things that have already been discussed, performing thread necromancy, the usual forum stuff. To deal with this, the term "trout" was created. I think the creator says it the best so, without further ado, I give you WALL OF TEXT.

The forum in question even has its own trout smiley (of one yellow head giving a trout to another) which by default links to that quote. IMO, it makes sense for CD to adopt something like that, since it really does change the tone of the discussion.

Well, that's my 2 cents.
-Blair

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Well, you guys welcomed me very well last year, so im returning the favor to all of the Newbies.

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We were a team last year but we are real newbies coming this year with a whole new and new ideas.

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......

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i am sure you will have much more to say when build season starts!:D

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I kinda like the trout idea. It seems that the term newbie carries some idea of negativity for most people. I myself am a junior, in my second year with a team that's only been around for three. Most of 2046 is new kids, so we are expecting a lot out of them to keep the team going.

I agree with the OP. We were all new kids at one point, I still consider myself new to the game, even though I have a build season and two competitions on my belt (made of buttons!).

I will say to new kids, save yourself and everyone else the trouble and try the search function. I found a little search tutorial that new folks can use. Although we should be welcoming to the new kids, you're never gonna be rid of the trolls. They best way to combat trolls is to not give them anything to complain about!

Hope my first post was informational.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I'm a newbie LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL :D :D :D :D :D

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

HAYYYY EVERYBODY

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hello everyone! I'm a sophomore and have been a part of my team for one year now and finally came around to registering on Chief Delphi. I hope that I'll be able to assist other people by sharing my knowledge and of course I hope to have some fun, too.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hmm....Dethshoot....now could this possibly be the dethshoot from the JF CSS clan?

Welcome to the forums!

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I'm new here from this forum its a lot more inviting then a lot of the other forum sites I've been on.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Right on. I get tired of people asking a question tangently related to an old topic, and all they hear is SEARCH BEFORE YOU POST and the question wasn't even answered before. Then, the thread becomes a war over where this was answered before, and noone learns anything :(

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I'm a newbie and I'm just learning the ropes of everything :)

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Honestly, I hope this sums it all up.

If you have the time to post that they should search for same topics, you should just answer their question. It's rude to ask for someone to post his or her question somewhere else. If you don't like posts of previous topics, then ignore it and don't read it. This also applies to people who post "don't re-post the same topic" and then decide to create a different conversation, or just start another one without saying anything to the creator of the thread. I've seen this on so many other posts it makes me upset enough to log off for the day.

That’s my two cents.

Thanks,

Comatose

Hello!

I am a senior at Middle Park High School in Granby, Colorado, and I'm happy to say that we have just founded our robotics team this year. There is certainly a great deal of excitement for the upcoming FRC, and we are frantically rushing to get all of our funding in order... :D woo hoo...

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to competing with you all in the coming months.:)


- I'm treating this like an introduction thread as I didn't see one.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Welcome to the community!

As a new member of a new team, I'd recommend pointing you toward
these documents. Simbotics is a great team that puts out these invaluable training materials.

If you'd like to get familiar with FIRST documents before kick off, you can go here to find archived game documents.

thebluealliance.net is a great place to look up game videos of robots you might hear mentioned on CD.

The FIRST Workshops here are pretty good too. The ones I like are JVN's - Applying the Engineering Design Process to Competition Robots and Bill Beatty's - Overall FRC Robot Design and Strategy.

Good luck!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

That is so true! Dont diss nubs, everyone starts somewere. I'm a noob but im good at somethings others arn't. RESPECTEVERYONE!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

[Moving to Whitepaper, the wall of text was mildly intimidating (to me)]

Welcome to CD you guys, have fun.

I will offer here just one major piece of advice I learned from a very wise friend, "How will we learn to stand if we never learn to fall?" Don't let fear of failure stop you from posting, we won't tar and feather you, we may nudge you in a different direction but it will be with the intent of helping you and the community grow.

Best of luck to the 936 new people who have joined since May. I hope everyone finds CD as welcoming and fun as I have.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

I thought RTFM meant - Read The FIRST Manual - when using it in reference to the FRC manual.

P.S. Have fun. Glad you're joining us in ChiefDelphi!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

To add to Andrew's comments on reading the manual:

Chief Delphi is not an official source for FIRST information. Even though there are several game designers, lead inspectors, and people of that sort on here, nothing said here is official. The manual and Q&A are the only official sources for answers; a good response to a rules question will link to or quote one or both. I've been known to link to about half a dozen Q&As in one post to answer one question on the rules, just to make sure that I was interpreting the answer correctly and completely. This after a game designer had weighed in unofficially, too.

And yes, I've occasionally joined in the "quote the rule" "fun" when somebody tries to make up a rule.

Some other advice: unless you really want your head to spin, avoid any discussion of Dave's game hints. Ditto for any game hints, though those threads can be very informative on any topic except the next game.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hey everyone! I'm a new guy also...
this is my first year in FIRST, and I just joined a team who's rookie year was last year :p
anyway, I can't wait for this year's game to be released! :D

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Bryan, dearest "son" of mine, your number two rule contradicts itself by having a spelling mistake in it. You may want to work on this. I suggest writing your posts in Word and then copy/pasting them, to make sure you are coming across as an intelligent member of 33.

Just doing my "motherly" duties.
Much love.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

This just happened to me earlier today, although it was not a negative reputation but instead someone getting very angry with me for a mistake that I didn't know about. Let's try to not let that happen to anyone else! :)

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hi guys,

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but just wanted to pop in and say hi! This is our first year participating and we're really excited.

Look forward to a good year :)

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Welcome!

This is my second year and I have been amazed at the wealth of information and the amount of people who want to help on Chief Delphi. My suggestion is to look all around this forum and USFIRST.COM and do not be afraid to ask questions about what you can't find.

Good luck!

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

USFIRST.COM will not get you competition information.

http://usfirst.org, on the other hand, will get you all the official competition info you need, while Chief Delphi will be more than happy to help you with anything else you need help with.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Thanks for correcting me. That's what I get for being too lazy to make it an actual hyperlink using cut and paste.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Thanks guys :D I appreciate it ^^

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hi,

I will say it now. I am a newb, at least to CD. I now that we newbs are hated in the general world, but its nice to know that someone cares about our feelings.

Thanks so much,

Mathis

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

don't hate the N00BZ, we don't know enough to conform, so we have new ideas:p

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

This noob almost got to finals but both of our alliance members broke down during the regionals. So we got booted.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hello; I signed up a while ago. However, I had no reason to use this account until today, and I may have to use it a lot for the next six weeks, or maybe not.

I mean, there really isn't any reason to go on CD in the middle of June. >_>

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hello and all that CD, name's Steve as the username would imply...and last time I checked I am in fact a man! My instructors and mentors mentioned this place around the time the "Incredibly useful" hints got released. Figured I'd register and see what all the interesting FIRST and FRC discussions were about!

I'm a member of 1493. I'm a sophomore in high school, and I'm half in charge of our game piece handling sub team.

Happy to be here.

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hi, I'm Todd, and I'm a sophomore in my club.
I heard about this forum last year, but I never really had much reason to join.
This year, I want to become more involved in my team, so I took the responsibility of browsing this forum during the build season for help and useful information.
It seems like a great community! I am sure this will be very useful in the next six weeks :D

Re: Welcome the Newbies
 

Hello everyone :) I'm from a rookie team in texas, just thought I'd pop in and say hello!