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Mentor: where are your safety glasses?
Student 1: I don't need them i got safety contacts
Student 2: I don't need them to i got safety retinas
another mentor: Well i really don't need them i got glass eyeballs (hes just joking don't worry)

another conversation that came about after to many students we saying something was almost done and people thinking it was done.
Student 1: we are almost finished
Mentor: we are no longer allowed to say the f word until i say we can
Student 1: ok we are almost done
Mentor: or the d word
Student 2: ok we are almost complete
Mentor: or the c word
Student 3 (one of the team clowns): but can we say F*#$, D!@#, or C!@# they aren't the f, c, or d word
Mentor: no

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"______ why are you on the ground?"
"Well...You know..." *laughs*

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"I broke it!"
"Calm down, come on, put it back in! Do it quick! Do it quick!"
"I got it!!!"
*After laughing for a while* "And that is what she said!"

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Some quotes i've heard

*my dad (a mentor) tries to demonstrate the height of the dump basket to another student by picking up a box and holding it over my head*
student " so it will be about that tall"
my dad "well know my daughter's an inch and a half taller then the height limit so about 2 inches lower"
me "sorry next time i'll shink a little bit"

"wait i think the robot is too tall"
*i climb on top of the bench and slide my foot out of my shoe*
"nope we're good i'm eye level with the top"

"what do u mean it where its supposed to be i just check there and ...Oh never mind"

me"i know its not nearly as exciting as the first real time of driving the completed robot but in the back they just finished painting the shipping crate and we think it looks pretty good"

Me to a friend about the painting on the shipping crate (btw we named the hawk hawkie) "no offense to her painting skills/laziness but it looks like someone hit hawkie over the head with a frying pan"
"ehh only a little"

"these r really fun to play with"
"omg they are"
*me and a friend making the limit switches/microswitches click*

morning of ship day
"what do u mean we never put something on to hold the battery"

In relation to the above
head of electrical/president "shouldn't mechanical be doing this"
me "yeah but i'm busy doing something else" *i was providing mental support for my friend who was painting the crate*

"what do u mean chris is working his job is to be here"

friday after school
me "finally time for me to have a little bit of a social life"
teacher "ur not allowed to have a social life outside of robotics what is this social life you speak of"

*after testing out ball feeding system for the first time when it it stops working because the magic orange rope slipped of the pulley*
"hey it actually works... mostly"


thats all i can think of right now :P

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Some quotes i've heard

*my dad (a mentor) tries to demonstrate the height of the dump basket to another student by picking up a box and holding it over my head*
student " so it will be about that tall"
my dad "well know my daughter's an inch and a half taller then the height limit so about 2 inches lower"
me "sorry next time i'll shink a little bit"

"wait i think the robot is too tall"
*i climb on top of the bench and slide my foot out of my shoe*
"nope we're good i'm eye level with the top"

"what do u mean it where its supposed to be i just check there and ...Oh never mind"

me"i know its not nearly as exciting as the first real time of driving the completed robot but in the back they just finished painting the shipping crate and we think it looks pretty good"

Me to a friend about the painting on the shipping crate (btw we named the hawk hawkie) "no offense to her painting skills/laziness but it looks like someone hit hawkie over the head with a frying pan"
"ehh only a little"

"these r really fun to play with"
"omg they are"
*me and a friend making the limit switches/microswitches click*

morning of ship day
"what do u mean we never put something on to hold the battery"

In relation to the above
head of electrical/president "shouldn't mechanical be doing this"
me "yeah but i'm busy doing something else" *i was providing mental support for my friend who was painting the crate*

"what do u mean chris is working his job is to be here"

friday after school
me "finally time for me to have a little bit of a social life"
teacher "ur not allowed to have a social life outside of robotics what is this social life you speak of"

*after testing out ball feeding system for the first time when it it stops working because the magic orange rope slipped of the pulley*
"hey it actually works... mostly"


thats all i can think of right now :P

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Last week, me and a few people went to Radioshack, to buy knobs for a couple pots, and since I can drive, I ended up going, so we went into radioshack and it went something like this

radioshack guy "Can I help you guys?"

my friend - "No, we are just looking for something to put on our pot"

Radioshack guy- (gives us the weirdest look and quietly says) "what"

me later on- "ok, you need to learn when you can say Pot, which is when you are at robotics, and when you have to say potentiometer, which is everywhere else"

I am sure there are alot more quotes, just this one just happened last week

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Between one of our mentors and I:
Me: Dont touch that its hot...it was just welded!
Him: Oh gee thanks for the warning...
*touches it*
Him:Ouch thats really hot!!!
Me: What did I try telling you?!?!?!

Needless to say he found out very quickly that I was right...

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While soldering was happening...
Non-electrical team member: Hmm, smells like yummy smoke.
Me: Yeah, that's solder burning.
Non-electrical team member: Oh.
Me: And if you read the label on the solder, you'll learn that it can cause birth defects!
Non-electrical team member: Lovely.
Later, I found a piece of solder that hadn't been put away...
Me: Would you like some birth-defect-causing solder?
Different non-electrical team member (excitedly): Yes, please!

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*A is banging a rubber mallet on his palm*
B: You have a rubber mallet
A: Yes, and if I had a rubber sickle, I'd be a rubber Communist
*whole team bursts out laughing*
A: Bet you didn't expect me to make that joke

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Setting: After three team members had gotten 4 hours of sleep in the past 2 days due to junior year, and were playing around with pliers and a quarter while programming was in session.

(programmer comes over) Eugene: GO TO SLEEP! YOU GUYS ARE SITTING AROUND DOING NOTHING.
The three "culprits" (James, Nicky, and Rohan):............NO! I don't want to sleep.
Eugene (Programmer): YOU GUYS ARE BENDING QUARTERS WITH PLIERS!!!!!! FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO!!!
Rohan: Well you're programming, and it's like watching paint dry.....

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A pretty epic quote was said yesterday at the Scrimmage in Greer, SC towards our team...

"Fredrick Moore, your motor is on FIRE!"

Yelled across the floor during a match to my friend after I stalled an rs545 for too long (don't ask how...)

Needless to say, all of the magic smoke was released... and a little bit more on top of that

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So this technically wasn't at Robotics, but anyways...

I showed up late to musical rehearsal on V-Day, and one of the other cast members (she's about 11) says, "You're late. What were you doing??"
And I reply, "Well, I was building a robot."
She stares at me, bewildered, and says "People do the strangest things..." and walks away. :)

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Student: "It is being held together by hot glue and hope"

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*A friend and I while looking for a hot glue gun to fix a trailer*

Him: "Well, why don't you just heat the glue with your mind?"
Me: "I don't think it works that way."
Him: "You sure?"
Me: "..."
*I stare at the glue sticks he is holding.*
Him: "No no! Not in my hand!"

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Perfectly set up for "That's what she said!" =p

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ok we are worn out from this week and everything comes out sounding totally wrong so this is what happened

(i was using the vaccume to clean up shavings under the robot and our frame is made from 80-20)(there was a thread fastener in it...)

me: omg this is so cool i can make the thingy move back and forth
mentor: what are you talking about
me: look its so cool
mentor: oh your sucking the nuts to make them come

(everyone busts out laughing and i nearly fall out of chair because of the statment)

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Mr Henze most famous quote, "Okay, Let's go to work!"

My famous quote of the year, "It goes BOOM!" :eek: seconds after Josh pressed enter on a self destruct program of a computer.

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me: what happened
student: motors got hot.
me: how hot?
student: do you have any eggs?

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"The male mind only thinks about one thing...robots and food."

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This was said by one of our mentors:

"If your not in a panic, you don't understand the situation!!"

Daniel G.
Programmer
Team 269
Oconomowoc, WI

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Mentor: Do you think you can get us any cash donations?
Me: Or check donations, or credit donations, or diamond donations, or gold donations, really anything will do.
Mentor: Or bank account donations.
Me: Did you say bacon account?
Mentor: What? Bacon account? No.
Me: Oh, cause that would be pretty sweet.
Student: You'd gain interest on you're bacon and stuff.
Me: Yeah, they'd add little slices of bacon every couple of months. This is going on Chief Delphi.

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*we were testing our robot*

Driver: Pneumatics work.....:P
Mentor: Hey look the pneumatics are moving!:yikes:
President: MAGIC SMOKE!! MAGIC SMOKE!! :ahh:

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Student: What does it mean when the display screen on the scale says ololololol?

Mentor: It's laughing at you because the robot is overweight

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"It's just a prototype!"

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-3, 2, 1, BOOM?
-No, just 2, 1, BOOM. You don't get that much warning.

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Hammer in screws, it saves time! :P

Nick Chermack

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Along those lines.

"Libby, enable?"
"We have no comms."
"How many?" (he was talking to someone else, I responded anyway.)
"ZERO COMMS. WE HAVE ZERO."

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While waiting for the programmers to finish: JVN (mentor) -- "Have you ever seen a kid get beat to death with a track ball full of dodge balls?"

Right after the bot was ready to ship: "Can has sleep now?"

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I got a new laptop for my birthday this year (in preperation for college) and it ended up being used as the programing laptop eveon though i was the project coordinator and helped the mechanical team. On Vista theres a gadget which looks like sticky notes which the programing team and i kept regular conversations over. here are a few that i remember.

~Programer~
To do list:
get linux

~me~
To do list:
kill b____

(i quite thoroughly enjoy my vista system and one of the programers feels the need to constantly talk about linux which anoys me greatly)
__________________________________________________ ______________

~programer~ (in reference to this picture which i had made my background): lions pwn cat

~me~(at 2 in the morning): in soviet russia pwn cats lions

a day later i find this as my new background (see attached picture)
__________________________________________________ _______________

When we were at our practice competition this week we managed to short out the surface mounting fuse on our CRio resulting in our robot never being tested before ship. Needless to say our whole team was terribly disappointed so late at night (this seems to be a reoccurring trend with me) i wrote this on 10 seperate sticky notes (the max that the gadget will allow).

~me~: REMEMBER: Robotics isn't the only thing in the world... its just the only thing that you've cared about for the past 6-9 weeks and also happens to have made you compromise morals, push back other projects, reject schoolwork, and alienate friends... so just take a deep breath, put down the 7/16 drill bit you were about to drive into your skull and be happy we have a robot and learned a lot while building it

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"Whoah. We are 30 pounds overweight!"

"Let's drive it around to lose some weight."

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*is laughing while my dad gives me a weird look*

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Nicknames for components on our robot (don't ask):
-Shooter motor: "gentle lobber"
-Diagnostic light: "stupid light"
-Camera platform: "peekaboo patio" or "bare-a__ balcony"
-Electronics board (shifts left and right for turning): "moveable feast"

Our autonomous has a switch with two positions - turn left and turn right:
Me: So, left goes left?
Mentor: Right.
Me: And right goes right?
Mentor: No, right goes left.
Me: So left is right, but right is wrong, right?
Mentor: Not even gonna go there...

Programmer: The robot is overweight.
Mentor: More zeros and less ones, guys.

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36 hours of programming, here we go

Mentor(non programming); so three functions, three switches right?
Me: No, two.
Mentor: Two?!?!
ME: There are 10 types of people in the world...
Mentor: Overruled your getting three switches...

Me: We didn't build this code to be tested, We built it to work!! (it didn't)

Me (looking at a massive decision making structure): I think that I "C" a better way of doing this. And I really hope that you will "C" my way of doing this.

Mentor: Yes I think that I "C" what Cody is trying to say, and I really hope that you will "C" the programming his way.

Brandon: No!, No! formula node

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Me: I wonder what would happen if you heat-gunned an orbit ball

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Ok, so one of our programmers always forgets to put in the start codes, (at least we always know where to check if we have problems) so we came up with this simple acronym as a joke to help remind him.

D.U.F.U.S.

Did U Forget Ur Start Code?

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Me: "So how the heck are we going to beat the dumper bots?"
A: "Jack knife their trailers so they can't move. Then we lob balls into their trailers."
Me: "You are forgetting two things. One, our shooting program isn't fully functional, and two if we don't move we're dead."
A: "Just believe it will work, and it WILL WORK."

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Student 1: "What's the speed of light?"
Student 2: "One light year per year."
Student 1: "That was real helpful."

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Me: 'Is it possible to get a gravitational sensor that has like 24 decimal places of percision?"
???: 'Why 24? and No, becaus A) cash and B) I don't think they make sensors that are legal that are that sensitive"
Me: 'Dang, so we can't detect the gravitational effects of the pocket lint in the crowd on the robot?'
???: 'No, that would be called an amazingness factor'
Me: 'Well.............................. darn'
???: 'Yeah'
Me: 'Wait, what?'
???: 'I'm not sure anymore'
Me: 'Yay overly sensitive sensors!'
*Strange looks*
Me: 'What? I'm a programmer, and I'm in AP Physics...'


Me: 'OMG labview provides code for EVERYTHING. What were we doing in C?'(I mean, they seriously do. They have a PID function built into it of all things)
???: 'Coding more powerful stuff'
(30 minutes later)
???: 'Have you thrown up yet?'
Me: 'No but in about 30 minutes I've completly redid all the code that we did in the past 4 weeks'
???: 'It looks like someone threw up on it. I mean I've thrown up things more organized than that'
Me: 'No, It's an organized mess. Just like my room'

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after wiring the battery terminals to the switch and breaker board:
me: We have power!
mentor: looking at me with a "wtf" look because his hands and head was inside the robot checking wires.
me: Well, the ability to get power.

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While working with the Inventor kids today after school.

Me: So you guys have the pictures of the robot right?
Student(just walked in room): If you get me a camera I'll go take pictures for you
:::silence:::
other student in the room(whispering to me): does he know it shipped today?
me: You know the robot shipped right?
:::more silence:::
Student who was going to take pictures walks out of room

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"Is the robot supposed to be smoking?"

(The answer was no, and after we hit the kill switch, we found that the frame was warm, and our jaguar wires had melted to our camera power wires, and the camera crossover cable was smoking. oops!)

Then there was the talk afterwards-

"If you ever see the robot smoking, even from across the room, you have full permission to turn it off. We will warn everyone if robot is supposed to be smoking."

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Ok, I have another one I have to share. I'm kinda the rules/research/information person, but I also became known as the bearer of bad news. It started out as

"Mr. R, I have bad news..."

After awhile it became

"Um, Mr. R, I kinda need to show you something..." It was almost guaranteed bad news by now. (by the way, I'm trying hard not to smile/crack up/ act amused. I couldn't help it.)

Eventually it ended up

"Hey, Mr. R, you know how I like giving bad news..." (no longer trying to hide my laughter.)

I should probably mention that this happened like 8 times in one day...

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person sanding a bar: "does anybody smell that?"
belt sander starts spewing flames, I yank the power cord out of the wall

we had very bad luck with our power tools this year, fortunately nobody was seriously injured

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Mentor: How much amperage can this driver station provide?
Me: I don't know; let's check...
<holds +5V to one multimeter terminal and ground to another>
Me: I'm getting five amps.
Mentor: Five amps Are you sure that's correct?
Me: Probably, because my fingers are getting hot. I'm letting go now.

Us programmers needed power, but all the outlets were full, so we randomly unplugged something that didn't seem to be in use.

Five minutes later, the head mentor complains:
"Why is that every time I go to use the sander someone has unplugged it?"

Mentor: "Disable the robot, please."
<I reach for the disable swtich, and a 1 inch spark jumps from my finger to the driver station>
Me: "Ow! I'm happy to report that we have effectively grounded the driver station; thanks, guys."

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Here's the difference between programmers and builders:

Okay, so last year, we're all eager to start the second day of VCU. Upon getting to the pits...

Mechanical Mentor: "Turn on the robot."
<student turns on robot, nothing happens>
Programming Mentor: "Okay, let's check to see what lights we have and try to-"
Student: "The battery's not in."
Programming Mentor: "-troubleshoot the problem..."
<programming mentor facepalms in embarassment while everyone else laughs>

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People on the team failed so much that we came up with the idea to record the fails in 'fail boxes'. Whenever someone failed: "I think that deserves another fail point."

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"You don't hit people with nice cameras!"

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Friend: What is with all this robot stuff you keep talking about? Geez, you've gone psycho the last two months.
Me: And imainge what I'd be like if I had a team to mentor this year

Friend again: So why go all nuts about it?
Me: Have you ever had a moment where you realized to yourself that everything that led up to that moment just made sense?
Friend: Not really, but I know what you mean.
Me: My moment was had when my team won the Team Spirit award in my senior year. It's not one of those big awards that anyone really cares about...but for one moment, I held that trophy and everything just made sense.
Friend: Alright man, whatever you say.
Me: I cried out of joy...
Friend: Will you stop, I get it already!

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I had some people from the electrical/programmer division help me clean the workshop. Their job was to sort out a pile of screws and nuts. My back was turned and I kept on hearing this:
"aww this screw is soooo cute!"
"awwwwwwww"
"Look at that nut, isn't it cuuute?"
"I just want to hug this screw."

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You should know better than to let them touch anything that isn't a computer. And even then you have to watch them closely.

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when we have to force fit something to the robot and one hammer doesn't always work the first words out of anyone's mouth was "We need a bigger hammer!" it always eventually ended up at the sledge hammer but before we used that we always actually adjusted it

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"JOBS?" by me everyday asking around

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"When in doubt- bigger motor"

That was early in the build season, and we did end up changing a set up with FP motors to one with a CIM.

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lol these are too funny

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Student - "how are we going to get this done all on Thursday?"
Mentor - "Prayer."

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We have a rubber mallot that we call "gentle persuasion". Whenever something doesn't fit, we hear:

"Time for gentle persuasion!"

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From the first page:

...and he still isn't finished.

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"Marshall stop using the stable gun on your shoe"

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"Hello Officers" ....

..... when we stayed at the school late one night, and didn't realize the alarm turned on automatically at midnight!

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(talking about NZ VEX teams)

Teammate: "I don't understand when you say symbiOHSis! call them onehunga high!"
Me: "what?! thats like saying you know Team #47 Chief Delphi, as Pontiac Central High School!.. or #1114 Simbotics as Governor Simcoe Secondary School... or #100 Wildhats as 'Woodside High School & Carlmont High School & Sequoia Union High School District'!"
Teammates: "...how do you remember all that? we havent even started FRC yet"
Me: "...or #217 ThunderChickens as whatever school they come from"

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I got tired of people actually relying on my answers to physics questions, so I came up with the "universal qualifier" in my sig.

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...which apparently doesn't show up for that particular post?

I think it's visible on this one
vv

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"I give up, it will never be done in time"
"Where's my Red Bull(s)?"
"Poof, Poof, BOOM!!!!!!!!!"
"Exploding Tick Tigers"
"Tiger Bacon"

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On our team the ongoing, boring argument is "Mac vs. Windows." I've instituted a program where anyone arguing about operating systems has to put a dollar in a cup. There are a lot of dollar bills in there.

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This year from Team 2164: The Corps. :
Team Members:
-Sharp: Coach/Teacher/Instructor
-George: Mentor/All-Knowing-One
-Kohl: Coach/Teacher/Instructor
-Mel: Head of Public Relations Division/2009 Treasurer (Senior as of 2009)
-Ben: 2009 President of “2164: The Corps.”/ 2008 VP (Senior as of 2009)
-Matt L. : Head of Electronics Division/2009 Vice President of “2164: The Corps.” / 2008 Pres (Senior as of 2009)
-Sariah: Member of Apparatus Division (Senior as of 2009)
-Matt R. : Member of Apparatus Division (Senior as of 2009)
-Tyler: Head of Chassis Division (Junior as of 2009)
-Levi: Member of Apparatus Division (Junior as of 2009)
-Jake: Member of Electronics Division (Junior as of 2009)
-Nick: Member of Chassis Division (Freshman as of 2009)
-Holly: Member of Public Relations Division (Freshman as of 2009)
-Ryan: Member of Public Relations Division (Freshman as of 2009)
-Adam: Mentor/Previous Member
-“It’s an easy fix.”-Sharp (always a 50/50 chance):D
-“Is it an Adam alert?!? “ - Kohl (the code that Wal-Mart uses for a missing child.)
-“It’s not my fault, I’m just a nudie.” - Nick
“A what?” – Tyler
“You know, a new guy.” – Nick
“You mean a NOOBIE!” – Tyler
-“Our pit is 10’x10’x10’? So it’s a triangle?” – Mel (we never let her live it down.)
-“You might remind them that the balls are delicate!!!” – Sharp (while members are kicking /throwing game pieces.)
-“It’s got a great rhythm, but you can’t dance to it.” – Jake (whenever any earsplitting sound could be heard.)
-“I seriously think I’ve drankin’ half this bottle!” – Levi
-“It’s a beautiful thing!” – George (this quote has come to signify a successful design.):cool:
-“I don’t appreciate your over-simplistic analysis of the engineering field!” – Ben
-“Smell my face! Smell my face!!!” –Holly (while talking to another member about chlorine.)
-“Where’d Billy go?” – Kohl
“Who’s Billy Goat?” – Levi
-“Hey, hey, hey… I am trained!” – Ryan
-”You can’t hit the broad side of a Sharp!” – Kohl
-“I saw it on an infocommercial.” – Nick
“A what?” – Matt R.
“Ya’ know the things that sell stuff on TV.” – Nick
“You mean an INFOMERCIAL!?!” – Matt R.
-“Who’s side are you on?!” – Brady:mad:
“Who’s side you think I on?!” – Levi
-“It’s in there on the table with that Drilly Downy Thing.” – Sariah
-“I’ll put theses needle nosed pliers in your needle!” – Kohl
-“So now that build season’s over … what do we do with our lives?” – Matt R.:(
“We live Matt … We live.” – Matt L. (ironically, Matt R. has more of a life than Matt L.):cool:

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Our team founder and mentor Pat Hughes always asked us "Is it just done, or is it done right?" whenever we presented him a finished piece. These words have become an integral part of my life throughout college.

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American Student with fake Austrailian Accent = "Do we get points for being foreign"

Faculty Advisor to student - "You would make a great hippie"

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So that brings the total wieght to.. um 176 pounds.

Brandon-Wheres that white smoke comming from?
Chad-Whats that smell, it smells like curcuit boards burning.
Me- I hate that smell.
Well, that sensor got fried...

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I was organising the final details for the morning of a VEX competition with one of my team mates over msn, for which I was supposed to be transporting the robot;

K: Ok sweet as. I'm gonna try be there about 9.30ish, but we can't register til the bot is there
G: yeah
K: XD
G: Tell them we're beta testing the VEX invisibility kit or something lol
K: haha yeah I'm sure they'd believe that
"how am I supposed to measure the dimensions?"
"umm... carefully" lol

And in another discussion about our team mascot Gary the Gryphon (and his later invented girlfriend Gabby XD);

S: Mom says we should have a row of baby Gary's
G: nah uh, we're keeping this PG. Gary and Gabby are not procreating!

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"In order to succeed, you must struggle prior to achieving glory" - Prof. from VT

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This is my first year not affiliated with a team (hopefully starting one next year!) so today I was super excited for the webcast. I started trying to explain what was going on to my room mate and she said "You're like a guy with football, but more excited!" Basically story of my life with FRC.

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At the weighing station
Student - "It weighs 89.9 pounds. Man (puts a wrench on) now it weighs 90 pounds. Yes!"

And during the competition, this really isn't a quote but it was funny. our robot in autonomous took out the trailer in front of our payload speciailist when there was no robot attached to it. Our payload specialist was thrilled

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"FIRST competitions... Its like robot porn"


*scilence*

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Whenever we lose something
"It's the room. It sucks things up"

We worked in the Chemistry lab and everything seemed to disapear in it. A couple items even went down the drains

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Mentor- "if ur gonna burn the motor, burn it good"
me-(after the next match)-" I burnt it good!!!"


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after winning the buckeye regional,

student-"did u get some???"
team 2010- "we got the WHOLE thing"

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-"If we put a Shamwow on the intake roller then we can just absorb the Orbit Balls!"

- "Ok to connect these wires we must burn them with fire."

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Mentor: So to do this we might have to use a blow torch

Entire team: BLOW TORCH!?!

(We basically have a team full of pyros, it was a good thing we never had to use the blow torch)

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"Ow that's hot!" Me after we bent some steel using a blowtorch.

"Why is the trash can on fire?" Said by a member a little to calmly.

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"Freedom is the right of all sentient being"

"Shut up cameron and start tapping"

The above conversation was between a team leader and a relatively new member of the team.

and...

Sunny - "Why won't the intake mechanism work?"
Dok (Build Team) - "Not my fault"
Tanner(Programming) - "Not my fault"
Stephen(wiring) - "Don't look at me, I run wire"

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on our team when we can't find something, it's always "alright, who's been cleaning" (and it's usually me, but I always know where it is)

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*texting a friend about organising a VEX practice event at our school*

G: "yes! this has got to be a record for our team. Not only did we all agree on a plan in one meeting, but we organised it all the next day!"

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well we weight 119.9 pounds. And when you exhaled on the robot we weight 120, so...

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Teacher cleaning out his room
"Does anyone want a stuffed donkey?"

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"IN THEORY, THIS SHOULD WORK!!!!"

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I arrived home at 6:30, after an all nighter, only to be back at the shop at 10:30 am. In that time, I got one hour of sleep.

Me talking to Aaron: I'm sleeping the entire way to Traverse City.
Wanna sleep with me?
Brian (mentor): eyes open wide
Me: That's not what I meant! I'm not even going to bother to explain it either.
Brian: It's okay, go sleep.
...we don't leave for another 3 hours...

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Sadly our teacher cleaned out his room and found a minature donkey skeleton, it now has a little paper/tape top hat, and sits on a storage cabinet.

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Lead programmer: "We need that stapler fixed. We use staples to hold the program together."

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While we were waiting at a metro station to get to the DC regional:

Mentor: "So, you know where you stand?"
Student: "I'm standing in the metro station?"
<mentor facepalms>

Transit Cop: "Young man, you can't just jump the gate!"
<everyone facepalms>

Student 1: "What's a Commonwealth bathroom?"
Student 2: "Ballroom."
Student 1: "Oh."

Driver after a match: "So guys, I pushed that switch that you told me never ever to push..."
Programmers: <sigh>...

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On our team its XP vs. Vista. We were the lucky recipients of the only Vista laptop in our entire school district. I like it and the programming mentor hates it (although his opinion of it slightly improved when shadow copies saved our entire code base).

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Amanda: "It's Chaotic. No its Team Chaos! haha!":D
Rest of the team: *Throws her a dirty look*

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"It's about a day out"

-said every day for two weeks about the shooter :D, it has officially become our motto

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Me texting a friend a funny quote he missed:"Well, it worked before it started sparking....!"

His reply: "Too bad sparkes didnt fall on anyone *evil grin*"

*I walk over and hit the back of his head*
"No it would not! 1. No trips to any place with medical staff! 2. I was sitting under it!"

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1 Team member starts to stab another team member with a peice of aluminum tubing. A mentor than says "That isn't safe to stab people with that" the student doing the stabing answers back "Its alright he's where saftey glasses"

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This was said during the Traverse City District event over loud speaker.

"To all computers on the network: computer name 'SS39'...you have a virus".

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Our announcer in Boston loved us. Blair is a great MC.

"The Robo-Rebels, who have been outright... disgustingly good today."

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Anyone who has gone to the Peachtree Regional knows the following quote.

"ROAD TO THE GEORGIA DOME"

Although the regional has not occurred yet, the quote above is a staple throughout the competition. Courtesy of Sir Charles.

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at the oregon regional awards ceremony:

me: oh, rookie all star, we'd never get that.:(
friend: yeah, rookie innovation maybe, but not all star...
me: :eek: OH MY GOD WE'RE GOING TO ATLANTA!!!!!!!:eek:
everyone jumps up screaming.

-Z

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"And here's 1189, who made me wear this silly poncho!!" -Paul Copioli
He was MCing at Kettering...we asked him to wear one of our mascot ponchos when he was announcing the teams.

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I remeber that! It was funny!

I got to talking with someone from a team, and he was wondering:
1.Why was I carrying around a stuffed dog
2.Why does it have a pair of saftey glasses on...?


My answer:
"The dog has a name you know! His name is Brutus. He is a bulldog, and so is our mascott [288/216 Robodawgs]. He has saftey glasses on because we are in the pit, and EVERYONE needs a pair! Duh!":D

He just kinda looked at me blankly, and I laughed ^_^

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While practicing softball with a couple members of the robotics team on the newly done gym floor

"Ahh. It's like throwing on Regolith!"

I got may strange looks on that one