Actually, we always called the 2014 game "Aerial Assault"

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Y'ain't the only ones.

Some more recent ones from our build and drive practices:

Our workshop is a "portable building", raised a couple of feet with a boardwalk shared by five portables. Outside the workshop yesterday, two team members were talking, and I overheard:
He: If I start doing that, it's because of you.
Me, thinking: Hey, that sounds like a pretty good song title.
She: (spoken too low for me to overhear)
He: I didn't mean to touch your armpit.
Me, thinking: Now how can we work that lyric in?
(OBTW, they were about eight feet apart at the time, so I assume the armpit touching was something that happened somewhere/somewhen else.)

Why can't we put the holy pin back in? (Me, referring to a safety device on our launcher.)

Everyone who's not too busy, bring defenses and batter bits to the trailer!

What are we waiting on?
Er, um, er, WHAT ARE WE WAITING ON?

I (mentor): What does LCKR (locker) stand for?
L: (pause) I don't know.
I: Are you sure?
L: (pause) Yes, I don't know.
I: You shouldn't have been wiring the robot if you don't know.
L: I didn't know that.
I: Of course not - but who let you wire the main power cables when you don't know that Loose Connections Kill Robots?

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This year, the CAD team was especially behind in getting drawings to build team.

When the CAD team is in a low state of productivity, the cry "CAD team is CAD-a-lackin'" makes it's way around the workshop pretty quickly.

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While wiring the robot and of course cutting some zip ties, student next to me starts singing "Another one bites the dust, and another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust"

At competition this same student and I decided that Stronghold is the real Aerial Assault and that maybe we should keep track and give recognition to the team with the most air time going over defenses. :D

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"Man I hope the scaler works..."

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"Keep Hans away from blade"
"Hans must really like that blade for us to have a sign about it"

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Me "Why is arm not working right?"
Mentor "I think the robot needs more cowbell..."

"Routing wires and zip tying them down is zen like..."

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When we were eating lunch at Wake Districts in NC, some student managed to completely butcher opening up the bag even though it had a EZ seal. Like one of those recloseable bags.... hahahah not for us. A student literally ripped the bag open....

Sooo....
"Must have been a programming student...."
"No... definitely not. Probably mechanical."
"Guys... you're all wrong. Mechanical would have pulled out a razor knife and cut it open. CAD would have designed a new bag that required a minimum amount of effort to open. And a programmer would have just said "bag=false" and grabbed their slice of cheese."

We still never figured out who did it.

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"They don't want us to..."
Fallowed shortly by
"Kevin I am going to shank you"

"don't be they"
Again, Fallowed shortly by
"Kevin I am going to shank you"

"he actually parked in one parking spot today!?"

"I haven't had pizza since lunch!"

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"Cheese the field!"

"Do you like pizza more than people?" "I do!"

"Shhhhh be vewy vewy quiet.... I'm hunting Wobots! (141)

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"Don't worrrrryyyyyy about it"

Said at least 100 times this season.

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Student 1: "Isn't it amazing how many lights are packed into that area for an LED strip?"
Me *checking wikipedia*:"Well cuttlefish cram red, yellow, black, and brown into a pigment cell and run about 200 of em per square millimeter while also being able to control the size of the cell to influence texture, giving them effectively 359DPI if they could be individually controlled."
Student 1:"Thats insane."
Me:"Yeah nature does some intense things."
*Five Minutes later*
Me: "Hey can you pull up the rules on your phone real quick?"
Student 2: "Yeah sure hold on"
Me: "cool thanks"
Student 2: "WHY IS MY PHONE ON THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE FOR CUTTLEFISH?"

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Over the weekend, we had a competition. At one point our programming mentor looked at two of our freshmen dead face and told them "I don't actually know how to program, I just roll my face across the keyboard and it somehow works."

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We are now calling the latest group of electrical/programmers the Italians, every time they get in to the robot the wiring ends up looking like a bowl of spaghetti.

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"Go away, we're licking the robot."