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"Wait, that means that if you rub it, it becomes a superconductor!:eek: "
We had a voltmeter and a metal cart for the robot. Rubbing it gave off negative values...

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Student A: "I'm really paranoid about lifting the robot up by 4 points."
Student B: "If they're properly secured..."
Student A: "It doesn't paranoi you even a little bit?!"

paranoi (v) - to cause to become paranoid of.

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I wrote these down so I could remember them...

"Why does that hole fit now?"
(trying to line up a piece to drill the holes)

Me - "What are you doing?"
Other person - "It feels weird..."
(He had a drill and his hand and yeah... it was interesting...)

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ok so tonight at the build site a freshman girl asked one of the mechanical mentors a question... i wont reveal any names, but everyone on Team Paragon knows who i'm talking about...

Freshman: "So how do blind people read lips?"
Everyone else: "I don't know, how?"
Freshman: "They don't, they just listen."

So whenever a freshman asks you a question don't push them away or ignore them... you just might get a quote worth posting on CD

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I don't know if this is funny or sad, or both.

Student A: "Are we meeting tomorrow?"
Student B: "Nope, asbestos cleaning in the school."

Another one:

Mentor: "Are you taking home a wrench?"
Student S:" ....a wench....wait, WHAT?"

Shows where their head was :rolleyes:

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Me: "97% of all statistics are made up on the spot."
Student A: "Yeah yeah, we've all heard that one many times."
Me: "It's true."
Student A: "Which is why it's a different number every time."
Student B: "No it's always 97%."
Student A: "No, I've heard it with other numbers."
Student B: "Well, 3/4 of the time it's 97%."

He was serious, too. :D

Me: "This CAN cable isn't wired right. One of the ends needs to be reversed."
Student: "I'll fix it!"
<student spends about five minutes cutting, stripping, and recrimping the cable>
Student: "It's fixed!"
Me: "Hmm...it still doesn't work. Are you sure the wiring is right now?"
<student grabs cable and looks>
Student: "Yes it - oh sh*t." <facepalm>

He had recrimped the cable in the same (wrong) orientation as before. :D

Our lab has two rooms: a really small computer lab for the programmers, and an open machine shop for the builders. There is one door into the computer lab. I was standing in the small room with the programmers:

Me: "Where did <other student> go?"
Student: <points at door> "That way!"
...later...
Me: "Where, other than this room, could the wire cutters be?"
Student: <points at door> "That room!"

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OK, so the Mechanical subgroup has about 85% of the tools at our build site... Electrical has the other 15%... So every time that we can't find a tool we say those three magical words "It's in electrical."

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Our team is stationed in the basement of a club, and the programmers are shoved off in a corner. After much frustration and grumbling about this from the only programmer in our team one of the younger students suggested to him;

"Oh why don't you just crawl back to your Pit of Despair."

Needless to say this has now become the official name of the programmers station... no matter where it is.

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"Stay out of my drawers, don't play with my balls, and get away from my muffins!" - Sal
You'll never hear another teacher say that.
(Although all of those items could be taken in the literal sense as well. We had been stealing the label maker out of his desk drawers, playing with the soccer balls, and begging for the muffins he was giving to his kid)

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"If your kids don't have shards of metal in the tips of their fingers by the end of build season, then you're just not doing it right."

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No trouting in the cage, but if they're not wearing safety glasses they're fair game.

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Head Mentor "Let's rebuild a robot guys!"
Student "After I go to the men's room..."

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Me - "I'm learning to speak Braille."

Haha :)

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Hahahah I laughed so hard. :D

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Me - "Hey Sal, where are the wheels?"
Sal - "We gave them back to Mike, we decided we didn't need them. We're gonna go with our kit wheels."