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This was at the Ann Arbor hands on museum last Saturday.
Chealsea: Have you hugged the robot today?
Me: No
Chealsea: (backs up the '07 bot right in front of me) Hug the robot.
Me: (hugs the robot) Have you hugged the robot?
Chealsea:...
She never did hug the '07 bot...:( Or not that I knew of.

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"For glory and whatnot!"
-Common team motto originated from www.ardentgov.org

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I never saw anything wrong with the title...

and I have spellcheck and grammar check...

SO TAKE THAT RobertG!!!

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"What do you mean the camera's mounted wrong?"

Me after our team discovers that our camera mount was constantly pressing the reset button on the camera halfway through the Milwaukee Regional...

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"is this ok?"
"well, it's not on fire. It must be" =]

was said to me after connecting a few wires several minutes after a fellow team mate closed up a circuit of pure 24V and wires went on fire lol

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Similarly, in 2007, we spent thre hours each on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday trying to figure out why our camera wasn't working. I couldn't attend the Saturday meeting, and wished the team luck getting the camera to work. The next Tuesday, I walked in:

Me: "So, did you get the camera working?"
Mentor: "Yes."
Me: "What was wrong with it?"
Mentor: "It was mounted upside down."

Yes; when the camera tried to make a slight correction to the left, it actually went right, causing a larger correction to the left, which went even farther right...yeah, that didn't work.


This year, after a match:
Me: "Any problems with the robot?"
Driver: "The drive system was acting weird."
Other Driver: "And the pivoter didn't work."

The build team went to work fixing the pivoter while I checked out the drive system programming. I couldn't help but laugh when I realized I had left the robot in tuning mode, which used the pivoter switch to change a drive system PID constant. No wonder it was acting weird; the more the second driver tried to make the pivoter turn, the worse the drive system got.

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"Guys? The floor attacked someone else..." (The floor of the Robolair has a strange curse...people seem to bleed on it randomly.)

We have a certain girl on our team who is great for comic relief:
Mentor: "Don't run with sharp objects, or things with sharp objects on it."
Trish: "Oh, or scissors!"

Trish: "No, you don't eat the NON-FLAVORED chapstick!"

Trish: "So Asian's a kind of Chinese?"
(The same day, when asked what continent China was in)
"South America?"
(Much later)
"Is it Europe?"

Mentor: "I know what we can do!"
Everyone: Some sort of variation of "Oh $@#$@#$@#$@#."

Mentor: "No female daughter of mine is going to Lowell!"
Mentor's daughter: "What about a male daughter?"

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Programmer enters the room: "Hey guys..."
Entire build team in unison: "No. No. No. No. No..."
<programmer leaves room>

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"Uh... What color is battery acid" -me
"Clear usually" -Mentor
"I think we have battery spillage" -me
"I'll get the PH paper" -mentor

The battery started to leak after we charged it

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For a while we had a whiteboard sitting on a shelf that read "Days since last accident: cos(pi/2)+1". One of our adults continually asked "What if it's not an accident? Mabye they want to be hurt."

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Me-"We should have a robo camp where the campers have to make robots out of squirrels and sticks!"
Evan or Dave-"lets also get crabs to attach to the squirrels so they can move stuff!"
discussing post competition season ideas for our team after Michigan regional last year

"Bobby put the microwave back."

"APPLE SAUCE SHOULD TASTE LIKE APPLES NOT PEARS!!!!!!!!"
me

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Student: "Duct tape can fix everything"
Mentor: "it can't fix everything. it can't fix a broken heart"
Student:"It would fix my broken heart"

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Out coach had given our School Newspaper an interview and they just slaughtered everything he said. They pulled this epic FAIL out of a hat:

"YOU RIP WHAT YOU PUT ANYWHERE!"

Completely out of the blue. We read the article, but didn't notice it at first due to it being the very last sentence. Eventually someone read the whole thing diligently, and brought it to our attention. We had a good laugh afterward, and still occasionally use it as a pun...

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Our school has done the same thing, although not nearly as horribly. Their mistakes were limited to the grade of one of our students, the days we meet, and they implied that the Vex competition was called Overdrive.

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There are a couple of pictures in our yearbook this year of members that graduated last year.