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I was vacuuming metal bits off of the robot. When I got to the electronics board, a mentor said, "Stop! You're sucking out all of the electrons!"

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"Who is Ben T. and why does this belong to him?" -Team member looking at a tetrix axle wrapped in blue painters tape at one end which has the word "BENT" written on it to inform people tat it is, in fact bent. The scary part is, I'm not sure whether or not he was kidding.

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Me: Is that safe?
Mentor: Yes. Wait. Define safe.
Me: Should I do it?
Mentor: No. It's not safe for you to do, but I can do it safely.

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[RS means random student(s)]

RS: "Whats a pillow block?"
Me: "The thing in the pillow block drawer"
RS: "Where are the Allen wrenches?"
Me: "Allen Wrench Drawer"
RS: "Where does this thing go?" (It's a center punch)
Me: " Punch Drawer"
RS: "I need to mark something. Where's the sharpie?"
Me: "Sharpie draw-, wait. Sorry. The robotics cabinet, third shelf"

C: "EVERYTHING has a drawer, except for the sharpies because they are myhtical creatures that like to roam free in their domain."

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Some of Overdrive's favorites (from our FRC days):


"But if you put it away I won't be able to find it!"


-talking about a pair of wire strippers-
James: There, now you have an awesome pair of strippers. Wait...


-After the girls ran into the basement to initiate a very one-sided pillow fight against the guys at 5 am during a sleepover at our Head Coach's house. The other guys see James pulling a table over his sleeping bag and ask him what he's doing-

James: I'm making an anti-girl device
other guys: James, you are an anti-girl device!


or the classic:

-Our engineering mentor, Mr. Wittel-
*crossing arms and sitting down*
"Ahhh. I love work. I could watch it all day."

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Mentor:I have a disease with no cure.
Student: What's that?
Mentor:It's called optic rectumitus.
Student: What does that mean?
Mentor: It means I have a crappy outlook on life.
Student:OH.:eek:

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Mentor to student about a precise freehand sketch: "Let's see, you did this thing right, and you did this part right, so why couldn't you do this part right!?"

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"Our minibot can haul a rubber chicken all the way up the pole and not fall back down, most of the time that is..." -Describing our bot to a team at the Suffield Shakedown

"Note: That pole is strictly for the minibot"

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"You know you're a robotics kid when you sit on Chief Delphi and hit refresh over and over again waiting for new pictures and videos of other teams"

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"WHERE THE HE11 ARE MY STRIPPERS???" (Wire strippers)

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Story of my life!!! LOL

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I can't find a definitive answer, but a lot on the net believe it is body builder Silvio Kersten, aka "Chris Wide" (who actually trains at Gold's Hollywood, not Planet Fitness...)

I'm not totally convinced it is him, though...

But I love the quote. I'll try to remember to use it when we're allowed to take the bot out for practice on competition week... :D
Thanks!

- Keith

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"Why do programmers seem to always be procrastinators?" Me to Matt from Chop Shop

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kevin: still no robot comms...
caleb: ohh would you like me to turn the robot on?

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Sounds like my team.
"WHY CAN'T I CONNECT?"
"Let me check...you know it's off, right?"

Pokey: "Can we use the oven? Like, is there anything you don't want us to do?"
Mentor: "Well, you've been working with the chop saw. But...I've seen people burn themselves on the soldering irons."
Pokey: "HEY!"

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Principle : "What's name of the robot ?"
Megh (Me) : "Johnson, and it's 9 ft. long."

everyone laughing, (got it ?)

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Saturday Morning, BAE/GSR: Signs stood up welcoming Dr. Flowers read "Morning Woody". :rolleyes:

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Brian giving a speech at GSR: "Yeah, there are a lot of other important things, like Minecraft and diamond pickaxes..."

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Student asks teacher - "Whats wrong with this school laptop i can't find any of my files."

Teacher - "For Some reason it fried last week and we had to reset it."

Student - " . . . ."

Team Captain starts hitting his head against wall

Student - "We officially just lost all of our robot code. I mean all of it no one bothered to make a backup."


Sufficient to say i was rather frustrated today. Lesson learned BACK UP YOUR CODE on more than one machine.

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I've got a great dialog sequence from the final day of build:

*Final build day, school locks up at 9:30, it's 8:30. Just me(Trevor), my Co-Captain(Garrett), and one mentor(Mr. Ketron) are left in the building. We thought we were all wrapped up and were ready to do some autonomous testing. The bot goes crazy and our the shoulder on our scoring mechanism has been stripped. Some of it is ad-lib, but the point still comes across. *

Trevor: (Looking at bot) Well at least I was able to drive it a little.

Mr. Ketron: (Trying to figure out how we set up the components of the shoulder 3 weeks earlier) How were we able to get this chain on here so tightly the first time? Garrett come over here and see if your hands can fit in here.

Garrett: (Staring at his netbook trying to figure out what went wrong in his code) I'm coming, one second, I can't figure out what went wrong. Trevor this logic makes sense right? *phone rings* Hello. Hey, Trevor, Mr. Ketron, the school paper just called and they want a quote about the Finger Lakes Regional.

Trevor: Yea, I've got one, we're S.O.L..

Garrett and Mr. Ketron: *laughter*

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*our CAD-er (R) is drawing up our robot post-build*

R: This just isn't working. All the twisting we have must put an insane amount of strain on the robot. I'm suprised it hasn't broken yet.

Me: Oh, yes! we base all of our robots on the counterforce principal. We put our robot under a huge amount of stress to keep it in shape so that we can put loads on it that a normal robot would be incapable of handling. Like our arm. All the stress is in the other direction so that it acts as counter stress and evens itself out.



Me: Why is that gap there? It's not like that on our robot. Can't you just loft that shape along a line?

R: Yeah, I tried that. It said "Object cannot exist along this path"

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"I can't draw..." as one of my favorite students (they are all my favorites) took the white board marker away from me and proceeded to finish the rough sketch I was making of the robot - the one I had asked her to draw in the first place. :)

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*Post-build CADing, episode two*
R: What size is the electrical board, in length?
Me: 28"
R:would you bet your life on that?
Me: Give or take a foot.

Later
R: 36 sounds like a number we may have used.

R: I've run out of dimensions of things on our robot.
Me: I can come up with some dimensions if you want.
R: That's what I'm afraid of.

C: Why are those piecves 3-3/4" apart? They are exactly 4" apart on the robot!
R: I used a laser measuring-thingy. it's 3-3/4
Me: Wait, C, was it 4" when you build it or when you last measured it?

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"in theory this will work"

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"It makes sense that the triangles keep popping. Afterall, delta is the symbol for change..."

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I've spend too long with my drivers (I'm the coach).
"Om nom nom the square by the tower!"

Talking with our pit and alliance members,
Pit "the arm might work this match"
partner one "Our arm is not going to work this match"
partner two "I don't think our arm is going to work right now"

Before our fist ellim match
"Remember its triangle, circle, square."
"WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT, ITS SQUARE CIRCLE TRIANGLE"

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Me: B! We've gutted the robot!
B: That robot wasn't gutted, it was murdered!
Me: :eek:

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"Reverse Chopshop Maneuver" == backwards logo...

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Me: ZACH, STOP MOLESTING SAM AND GET TO WORK ON THE SCOUTING CODE!

Explaining the roles of different subgroups to family: Management organizes stuff, electrical wires stuff, multimedia takes pictures of stuff, programmers write stuff, and mechanical screws stuff.

And of course...
Programming Mentor: Where is the entire electrical subgroup?
Programmers: Break dancing in the cafeteria with Will(the electrical mentor).

The potentiometer started smoking one practice. The next day:
Electrical Lead: It had to be you guys!
Programming Lead: I didn't write SET FIRE into the code!

There are alot more too...

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We actually did that. And we were the only team scoring that match on our alliance.

6 (RCsM -1 penalty) to 85 (logo w/ Ubertube, some other stuff, both minibots -1 penalty) :eek:

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I'd hack that. -our programmer
If it doesn't fit try other hole. ( he ment port.) -programmer again
Its not ghetto rigged, its strategically placed. -me
This looks kind of sketchy.-me again

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"It takes longer to get com than it takes to debug, build, and deploy (WindRiver on a super-laptop)"

this being said when the previous year we used LabView on the Classmate:o

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Last night we decided to wire up yet ANOTHER speed controller device to the bot, as an Upgrade, so I said:

"OK, haul out the 12 gauge..." (wire, of course)

A student calmly looked at me, smiled, and replied:
"Gee, they don't allow us to bring them to school anymore..."

... Which of course made we start to wonder about what this rural school USED to be like... ;)

- Keith

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(People across the room are discussing fundraisers)
"...and one Sonic toothbrush"
Me (being a smartass): "Does that go really fast?"
Mentor: "Yeah."
Me: "How many hedgehogs were harmed in its creation?"
Mentor: "One. And one enchilada."
Me: "...echidna?"
Mentor: "Can you tell I haven't eaten?"

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"That's how it always works. Strategy requests a circular peg, design CADs it as a square, and build makes it triangular :P"

"DADDY NEEDS AN AXLE!"

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"Why does the build site smell like a bonfire?"

"I don't think that's supposed to bend that way..."

"The minibot works grea... oh. That can't be good."

EVERYONE RUN!
Why?
Someone let the programmers touch the hardware!

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"Sleep is for the weak!"

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The Dremel Song...

Of course, in our shop the ubiquitous Dremel (R) Tool is used ALL of the time, to cut and shape things. (It's many a team's first "power tool"...)

The other day while using the tool, out of boredom I started singing "Dremel, Dremel, Dremel, <whistling rest>", to the old Hanukkah tune "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel". (No, I'm not Jewish, just musical, and it seemed to fit.)

There were a few chuckles. Then suddenly IT STUCK. Everyone started singing/humming "Dremel, Dremel, Dremel, la-la la-la la-la" all around the shop whenever the tool fired up. (Oh oh...)

Since we obviously now needed some more words to it, I recently added:
... "Dremel Dremel Dremel, we use it every day...
... Dremel Dremel Dremel, it cuts the stuff away..."

Now that we have words for it, it REALLY sticks in the head. As soon as the tool starts up, someone invariably starts singing or humming it and then cries out "Oh NO!... It's stuck in my head again and I can't get it out!" <lol>

Whenever this happens we now have to quickly sing something else or put on some music, to "break the spell".

I debated on whether or not to post this, but it's too funny not to share. (... Now it can be stuck in your heads, too... ;) )

- Keith

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last night:

*software and cad student working on fixing our minibot*

Mentor: What has this world come to! Software and CAD people with screwdrivers doing mech stuff!!

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Freshman- "Whats that" points a drill press
Mentor- "Oh thats a vertical lathe"

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Ours smelled like a bonfire because our work shop (graciously loaned to us by a parent) was heated with a wood stove.

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"Running great on less than 5 hours of sleep every night!"

"Well this thing send signals to the big grey brick which then tells the thingys to move the thingamajiggers, while these things stop them from destroying the robot, which the programmers could totally do on their own!"

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don't worry, it's not the space shuttle!!!!!

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we actually scored a backwards logo our 3rd match... little to say the head mentor was furious, and we were heart broken

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we knocked out a few tiles at the arizona regional... sorry hamilton high!

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*H was singing in the shop*
J: What was that noise?
me: That was rude.Did you just call her singing a noise?
J: I honestly thought it was a machine.

(We were wearing team shirts after first day of comps)
Waiter @ hotel restaurant: I should call you guys the crimson bane.
*after he walks away*
Teacher - These shirts are not crimson, they are the most blood red you can get.

"U mad?" - lead programmer
"SIGH" - lead programmer

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(At the New Hampshire Science Olympiad event today, Merrimack has three teams in the Sumo Bots event, and all of them have 166 members)
Member of another team: "Whoa. It's 151 versus 166! Just like GSR!"
Judge: "Yep, field problems and everything!"
Needless to say, I was wicked excited.

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The game announcer: "Because the match had to be shut down due to the mishap, the match will be restarted."

the "mishap" was team 702 catching on fire, and needing to be put out with a fire extinguisher.

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".... there is a definite correlation between stress and fun. When there is stress, it's just... fun! I haven't figured out how that works yet."--- not during build season. During regionals.

"WHERE'S THE WAGO/ALLEN WRENCH SET/etc.?????"

"Is there any food?"

"GUYS! GET BACK TO WORK!"

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Other team at scrimmage


"Come smell the robot"


Reason: the distinct smell of ozone. later the magic smoke smell came and we discovered, rather unhappily, our robot was the one making weird smells.

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Man, I'm jealous. I was going to do Sumo Bots, but when it got changed to a trial event, our coach told us to drop it and concentrate on the other building events :rolleyes: who ended up winning?

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"The penguins are going to the beach!" Beach Bots selecting Cyber Penguins as their alliance partner.

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I'm pretty sure they picked D'Penguineers. But yeah, that was a fun line.

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"Team XXXX happily accepts!"

L.A. selections, numerous times. Much better than "graciously accepts".

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In Mecanum Drive, the wheels fight each other... kind of like having a humidifier and a dehumidifier in the same room.

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Has any team ever rejected in the history of FRC?

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Well, It's definitely ghetto rigged now. What could go wrong.

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Yep, there've been quite a few declines. As a matter of fact, a smart #1 seed can break up lower-ranked potential powerhouse alliances by getting them to decline. There've also been conflicting commitments causing declines, as well as wanting to form your own alliance.

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Well...Merrimack got first, second, AND third for Sumo Bots, and first and second overall. But it was an epic event! It helps that five of the six of us do FIRST, and used FIRST experience and mentors to help. (As well as know which motors would be the best for our needs.)

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Actually, teams in the top 8 decline all the time. Every once in a while there'll be a team that gets rejected down the line, until they reach the teams that have to accept to be on an alliance. Those usually accept, unless their robot isn't working.

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As our wonderful team traveled from Michigan to Waterloo, Canada, we were unsure what we would face. Well we found a few differences...

Mentor driving- "Guys! What does a flashing green arrow mean?!?!?"
Student complaining while wearing shorts- "Dear Canada, Why do you insist upon being so cold? Michigan was at 50 degrees [F] before we left! With love, the States."

"I'm in a car that's not my own, with kids that aren't my own, in a country that's not my own... In the middle of a blizzard.... What am I doing?" - Mentor driving

A game of I-spy gone wrong
"I spy something.... Red!"
"Its the Canadian flag..."
"YEAH! I spy something.... Red!"
"Its the leaf!"
"Yeah! I spy...."
-grumbling, not looking up- "Its the leaf!"
"Wow! Youre good at this!"

[9 hours straight in a car will do this to you]


-On the way over the border, we were playing bomberman on our DS's-
"Do you think the guards will mind us talking about blowing stuff up...? because we are in the middle of a game..."


-at the mid competition party-
"...and to think, all of these Canadians are now my friends because of a game of ninja!"

Me, Right after the end of the awards - "So we are coming back next year, right Mr. Hepfer?"

"I wanna grow up to be a Canadian. Canadians are amazing. Forget engineering!"

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A member of our drive team, talking about trying to get onto the field during semi-finals [our driver is about 5'2 and tiny, and the mascots were apparently pressed pretty close]

'I'm trying to get onto the field, and there's a dancing skunk in the way! I understand they're enthused, but really?'

Me and our programming mentor, in disbelief that our hacked-out autonomous code was working reliably, high-fived each other at about ten-minute intervals most of Friday:
'High five! And again! And once more!'

Telling a rookie team about how strong Fischer-Price motors are compared to Denso window motors: 'We put a Fischer-Price motor on our elevator, and we promptly broke a belt! Which maybe speaks more of the strength of our belts than it does about the motor...'

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My team had a little accident with our battery and it started to leak..(No harm done)

Driver securing the battery: OMG someone spilled juice on the robot ughh...

Mentor: Juice what are you talking about...

Driver wipes some off and shows mentor and rubs glove against wall and fingers are exposed for like 2 mins we found it funny then panicked

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There was a team at the West MI district (I believe that it was 2153, but I don't know for sure) that was pulled into the top 8 (from the top teams continually picking from each other). When it was their turn to pick, their representative politely informed the crowd that they would be withdrawing from the competition
because they had to make the long drive back up to the UP. Their student left the field to a tremendous round of applause.

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Did we just build the kit of parts chassis in one day?

Yeah.

Why didn't we do this earlier? (said sometime during week 3-4)

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This happened once when I was asked to drill something.
That's what happens when you let a programmer do something mechanical.

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Electrical: I need some dikes!
Me: I have a pair in my back pocket.
Electrical: *reaches in pocket*
Mentor: Why are your hands in his pants?
Me: I have dikes in my pants and he's getting them out...

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Me: "If FIRST is life, then why isn't it called 42nd?" Referring to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Many groans. Many MANY groans.

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I think you're right with the team number. I also just want to say that we (team 857) had a slightly longer drive than 2153 but accepted as captain #7. This was also our first year as alliance captain.:D

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973 sparked a line of rejects in San Diego. We were the 6th seed when I believe the 3rd seed team tried to pick us, but we weren't happy with their proformance and rejected. Their next pick also rejected, so they finaly picked a "non-top-8" team.
The 4th seed then tried to pick us, but after being reminded that we were uneligable to be picked they picked the 8th seed, which rejected. :o
After that picking was Smooth as only one team was in a position to reject and they didn't get picked. First time I ever saw or heard of something like this. Interesting turn of events.

Lol... post 2973

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i remember that. possibly the most cringeworthy moment of the regional. besides that girl getting all jacked up in the pits

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sigh, so many times from our mechanical sub-team:

"that's what she said"

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*Well, it sounds like a software problem.*
*Well, it sounds like a hardware problem.*
*Like a boss.*

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Mentor - "Is that lexan or acrylic"
Student - "I think it's lexan" *Bends piece just cut* Snap! *Shards fly everywhere* "Opps, I ment acrylic."

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Mentor: "I created perpetual motion!" <he was kinda serious for a few moments>

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Me: OWW!!!
E: The heat gun is not an arm rest. Especially when it is on.

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Wait what? Do tell.

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Forgot about this one until today.

"We're doing FIRST." - Some mentor as I can't remember exactly who said it (Terry Sherman?)

For an explanation, that phrase is used to describe the act of completing, living up to, or acting out FIRST's core ideals like gracious professionalism for example.

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Mentor: "GUYS! I have to act responsible and tell you to knock it off. On the record, you guys need to stop."
Me: "But off the record..."
Mentor: "I find it hilarious."

Mentor: "Sometimes life takes you by surprise at three in the morning."
Me: "O...kay?"
Mentor: "And decides to throw up on the lobby carpet."
Me: "I don't like this analogy anymore."
Mentor: "Well, someone came in late last night with someone who had clearly been having a good time."
Me: "Eew."
Mentor: "Poor Matt, the first time he gets an analogy and it ends up being the actual story."

Student: "So, Matt, Dean's List Winner and good role model for all FIRST students, why are you teaching M how to count cards?"

Mentor: "Shush! Jerry's talking! That doesn't EVER happen."

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Me: "Engineering is a constant battle between what you want to do and how physics loves to massacre your design."

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(Sorry about posting again so quickly...)

Student: (Note that his family owns a relatively well-known chicken farm) "How'd they make a thousand cupcakes in two hours? It takes me five hours to make one batch!"
Mentor: "That's because you have to wait for the chicken to lay the eggs!"

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Programmer: Yeah, there definitely has to be a bug or two in this code.
Me: Are you kidding? This has way more than one or two errors!
Programmer: Yeah, this is actually pretty bad.
Me: I know! Forget bugs, there's a TARANTULA in our code!

-----

One mentor, talking to another mentor: What are you doing mounting it like that?! Come on, you're going to make us look like amateurs! Amateurs!

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Mentor 1-"why is it not working?" (referring to a tetrix motor)
Mentor 2-"Because there is a 3in shaft in there!"

Random Student (from across the shop)- "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!"

(when building the prototype arm, and forgetting to attach the motor)

Student- "I was born to be stupid..."

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You have sprockets in your pocket a drill in your purse and a table saw in your car I would not want to mug you

One person on our team asking another out
"Oh I have been really stressed recently do you know how I could relax?"
girl:" Well I'd say stab people but you already fence."
"I was thinking more along the lines of dinner and a movie. You obviously dont understand how a guys mind works"

Another kid making fun of it a few days later " After a long day of fighting off people with my sword I like to relax with a candle lit dinner and a movie."



Nate: "Your my worst friend!"
Bret: "That still puts me top three"
*Note this got our headmaster and dean to laugh*


"Well what else do you expect from a Nateway" (Our gateway turned into a Nateway)

"Safety Captain save us!!!!!!" (Teacher)

"I give you my best goat for the car" : Kostas

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Matt: I can fix anything! (object breaks in his hands) YOU BROKE IT!!!!!
"That is prioity number a!"
"make it work" -Matt
IT'S A WATER GAME!!!!!!
‎"Apparently our robot can fly o.O"

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Our team had a 2 bumper assemblies for this year, one for each color, but they go on in one piece. I had just finished making the first bumper assembly and, while standing inside of the bumpers(wearing them), went to a mentor to make sure it was to their liking. After she approved I looked at her and said "So these bumpers don't make me look fat, do they?"

she started laughing hard enough that she had to leave room.

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"Its not a good idea to microwave grapging calculators"
My favorite is " The robot is smoking is that a good thing?"

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Washington DC Pit Admin: "Team #### is looking for a robot. Team #### lost their glass slipper, if you've found it, please return it to Pit Admin before midnight........"

...oh lunch break

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C: Safety glasses are hard hats for engineers!

Mentor: What happened to you? You're all covered in mud!
Me: Yeah, I got in a fight with centripetal force. And lost.
(There was a merry-go-round outside the loading dock at states. Had some fun with members from Frog Force and Virus)

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You do know that this is illegal by the rule book, right?

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It is also a frequently-ignored part of the rule book. If Pit Admin wants to not make that announcement, they can choose to say that no, I can't do that, I have to keep the microphone for official announcements.

Most Pit Admin people, however, figure that both they and the teams need something to break up the "Teams X, Y, Z, report to queuing immediately... Team A needs tool B... No running in the pits" announcements, and ignore the rule if there's open time on the mic.

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If it is all in good fun, what is the problem. It is not like a Pit admin would choose to make a joke over making a real announcement, so why not give the people working in the pits a bit of humor when they can?

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I can see the fun in it, but it could get out of hand. If I got the announcer to say "703 is looking for a left handed screwdriver", would you be having fun?

What about the people that spend ten minutes trying to find an adjustable metric wrench to lend a team? Are they having fun?

What about the people in a pinch trying to get to the field in time but pause to hear an announcement?

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I would go find their pit and shake their hands and have some friendly dialog. The pits can have some flared tempers and human congestion; it's good to know we're at the competition to have more fun than anyone else will that weekend.

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"Jack, why did you run over the minibot?"
"I didn't mean to!"
"You did three times until it got stuck in the drive train."
"Oh. Well, that's why we made three."

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At Chipotle

"Wow, this burrito weighs more than the minibot!"

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At BAE/GSR (It happened while I was in the queuing line): "Ladies and Gentlemen in the pits: We have had our first request for a flux capacitor!"

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A couple for the Safety Inspectors...

Newbie: "Why are our shirts Blood Red?"
Older Student: "Well, they were all White at the start of the Build..."

Older Student: "We chose Blood Red shirts this year so the FIRST Safety Inspectors at events won't notice when we bleed on them in the pits while trying to fix the robot."

- Keith

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Announcer at boston: "It appears that team 639 has been unable to decide which side to cheer for"

and later: "Will team 639 ever leave the cheering area?"