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Mentor: "That grinder smells terrible!"
Student: "I can make a worse smell than that!!"

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[[...just... wow... some of these quotes... just WAY over the top...]]

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Im not sure how... but this Spongebob quote reminds me of build season.

"So you mean they've taken what we thought we think and make think our thoughts we've been thinking our thoughts we think we thought... I think?"
:D :D

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D: Hey, there's a hole in the wall that looks like someone kicked it!
E: Nah,*pulls up pant leg* it's about as high as the bruises on my leg are. That's definitely from the cart. This is the work of robotics kids not paying attention.

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my offical postion on the team 1787, the flying circuits..."the mechanical lad person thing"

"how many rolls of duct tape did u guys use?" Opfer (mentor)
"well...2 for the cart, 1 for the right side buper, and i think shebs, (the programer) took 2 home to help him program tonight." Fernandez

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I'm a mentor for 619 now! Which means at least four more years of fun quotes to come!

Me: "At what angle should we tilt the wheels outward?"
Programmer 1: "35 degrees"
Me: "Can we make it 30 degrees so the trig is easier?"
Programmer 2: "Let's compromise: 32.5 degrees."

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Me: "Hey guys, turn on the computers."
<two students punch the power buttons on each computer>
Mac user student: "You guys turn on your computers in such a weird way!"
Student: "We...press the power button? :confused: "
Mac user: "But it's a power button on a big ugly black box!"
Me: "And you press the power button on a small pretty silver box?"
Mac user: "I know! It's so different!"

Student: "...and then my computer got like a thousand viruses."
Mac user: "Well I use Macs so I don't have to worry about that."
Student: "You will soon; Mac is becoming more popular, and hackers are going to start targeting it."
Mac user: "Hey, at least we'll always be pretty!"

Me: "Does everyone remember what I told you about the joystick methods?"
Student 1: "Oh yeah, that zero one two thing."
Student 2: "They return -1.0 for forward and 1.0 for back."
Student 1: "That's what I meant."

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One of team members has a really bad vocabulary. He didn't know how to spell "cautious", spelling it "caucus". He also pronounced "queue" kway-you. So now when we are getting ready to queue up to the robot, someone will say "Be caucus on the 'kway-you'!"

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man-daids. The greatest invention since band-aids.

refering to duct tape band-aids.

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Some people actually pronounce that word "kway," while most pronounce it "kyew." I think this kid was just being politically correct by including parts of both pronunciations. :p

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Team meeting after school. We've got some kids taking the 2010 online safety test, while a mentor and I are talking about things that need to go in Chairman's and what else we can get the team to until build season.

Mentor: What's that thing we use? ...To do stuff? Program the robot..?
Me: LabVIEW?
Mentor! Yeah! ...It's a Wednesday.

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"This thing is a smoldering pile of fail" - using resin to patch a wheel

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"All I want for Christmas is a clean shop..." -Mentor

(we moved the location of our shop at the beginning of this year, and it's STILL not organized enough for build season...)

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"Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly"
"The back of you head is redicilous."
"Can I have it, Can I have it?"
and sooo much more.

Pathetic as it sounds, a bunch of our students watched "Can i have your number" for the first time in January. That line and any other line in the clip were said either A. To start a conversation, B. Break an awkward silence, and B. to just say whenever.

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"Remember what I always tell you kids- whatever you do, don't get blood on my machines. Got it?" - team founder and mentor:D

"I don't always talk about FIRST anymore, sometimes I just let the actions and accomplishments of my students speak for themselves"