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Hey guys,

Post your inspirational FIRST photos here, you know, the ones you took at any regional.

Here's one of mine:

Inspiring America's Youth.


Imagine the caption "Inspiration. FIRST." in the corner and BAM, you've got a sweet poster!

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holding Chairmans Trophy as a Team Captain was a dream. And it came true this year..... For the first time in the history of Chantilly Robotics, our team was able to win the Chairmans Award; a hard work by all the members, well paid.
FIRST Robotics has changed my life dramatically. Two years ago when i stepped on JFK i had no idea which way to go. But now after two years, as a Captain of Team 612, i know my way, "to make this world a better place with my knowledge."

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Very nice. Looking back at VCU, I wasn't looking for shots of this nature, yet I realize now that there was a lot more behind the scenes than just raw competition.

Ironically, you've inspired me to take a different stance as to what I'll be looking for at Atlanta: less robots, more humans.

For the time being, this is all I can muster

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This one was the best I could find.

http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/44272...wMLKEBd9vPEAzU

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This is Steven Li.. a founding member of team 772 who is *the* only reason there is still a team today. The picture is taken on his final day of competition as a student with FIRST Robotics, in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta last April. Not even a month before this picture was taken all of the graduating students believed we had ended our careers as students of FIRST on a somewhat uneventful note in Mississauga. I don't think anyone could have asked for a better place to finish it off!

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Here's one of me and our lead teacher from the 2006 Arizona Regional. It could fall into the category of "mentor & student celebrating their team's first regional win EVER"

The look on our mentor's face says it all......

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I can't find it anymore, but the picture that used to be on the FIRST homepage of the Wildstang drive team right after winning nationals in 2003.

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I have a few picture of the 2003 Nats when they put out the paper confetti and I have that picture on my Tool Box. Keeps me going when I need that little bit of help! :)

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That's such a cute picture. And for those who don't know, that's Mark Abrams daughter, Mark being one of the judge's at Southern California.

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Here are a couple of my favourites...the first is from the Great Lakes Regional in 2002, and the second is from the Canadian Regional (now the Greater Toronto Regional) in 2004.

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This is inspirational to me. I think 753 has too much pushing power...

This also inspired the new strategy of "Stay away from the ramp Steven Forbes!"

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Is it this one?
http://www.wildstang.org/main/images..._111.thumb.jpg

I've always liked this photo that David Kelly uploaded awhile back.

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Yup, that's it.

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Did someone say sweet poster?

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I've seen one like that...only it was a Regional Chairman's award...one guy was holding it up with one hand, and people surrounded it with their hands. Probly it was team 48, but I'm not sure.

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Really? Thanks for telling me, DCA Fan!

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I just saw that poster DCA Fan made with my photo... It pwns. It's awesome!

What I love most about robotics is the people. The GP, the teamwork, the inspiration.

Here's a picture I shot at the Arizona Regional. I like this one too. It's somewhat inspirational. I like Lavery's expression.


Keep those photos coming! They rock!

-fabb

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Some more from Arizona:

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I'm a huge fan of the pictures that FIRST picks out:
http://www.usfirst.org/4vol/resource...005/index.html

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393 fixing their robot, which many teams helped them with at pittsburgh to get them into the finals.



868 truly amazed me and it's so inspiring to me. (even though it is just the pit), they were able to change their robot during matches, never missing a match, and finding a way to help in any way they could for their alliance.

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Team 188's been lucky enough to get onto the official FIRST photo album from the Championship event the last couple of years, but this is my biased favourite, the "huddle" that is now being displayed by many other teams, but I'm sure we werent the first anyways ;) . It's since gone through a few changes but the concept remains the same. It was always somewhere for us to loosen up right before the match with a joke or too =P.

The new drive crew prefers to huddle with their knees on the ground, but I like this effect better =D.

Also the watches are a definite highlight!

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WOW Thats awesome...lets just say the school potter will be having some fun

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My goodness. Are they really holding up the robot like that? Maybe that is now why we have safety captains and safety tokens and safety awards and safety judges. Man, if that thing fell....

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While it's not from a regional - it's from this year's build - I still find it inspiring.

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From 2005 Championships


From 2006 Boston Regional (when the Pink team found out they won and threw their wigs up into the air)






Last three from 2006 BAE Regional

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I love that picture of Arefin from the Championships last year - it is hosted off of the FIRST website here

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This was taken by one of our other mentors.

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me coaching our team at the Boston Regional

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Well here is my version of that GREAT poster. Hope you like it.

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You've misspelled 'tomorrow'. ;)

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I fixed it :p

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All of these are great, especially the higher resolution ones.

I think I'll be heavy on photoshop this weekend...

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2004- Roushey won the Animation Award by himself

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(Heidi's best picture ever - and she didn't even have to Photoshop this one!)

I just love the look of pure joy on this kid's face as he gets to play with a VEX robot for the very first time. He had enough fun for everyone there!

-dave

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That is what FIRST is about. :)

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It's not as good as the first one but it was our peak point at the Buckeye Regional last year.

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How about this one:

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Then a pre Lego league helper- believe it or not he is now a freshman on the team.....

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This is Sam, one of our senior Chairman's Award presenters at Buckeye last year. She didn't stop crying or let go of that trophy until we finally got off the bus back in Warren, and only after a few parents hosed her down with some silly string.

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Heres one from a elementary school science fair we were at last year.(The look on the little boy in the blue shirt's face is what its all about)

Championship 2004 Ice

Making the connection

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I was just browsing though my team's photo galleries and I found a few more from the Championships in 2002:





And here are a few from the Championships in 2005:

<sup>(This is one of the drivers from RAGE.)


(Click on the thumbnail to get a bigger (4497 x 800 pixel) version.)</sup>

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http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/View...011&p=73970471

Here's a high quality version of the poster, 180 dpi, for all of you who would like to print it out. I got a question about the fonts; it's all done in Trajan Pro.

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I've always likes this one that was taken my junior year in HS (wow, long time ago).

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Before you guys throw this little girl's picture all over the internet, you may want to ask her parents...

I do love the poster however

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Good point. All people registered to go signed model release forms, but I don't think that she would have signed one. Technically, from my understanding, as long as you're on the grounds during a FIRST event, you give consent to be published in any medium.

Still, asking might be a good idea to ask her parents, seeing as they're a little more accessible and we know who they are.

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I really like this one.
Not only does this show how much we all love Mr. Cokeley,
it shows how he's had impact not on one team, but two.
After Mr. Cokeley won WFA at the 2006 NJ Regional:



PS - That's his daughter

Here's a really cool spirit picture: http://www.mercury1089.com/main/gall...5/DSC00902.JPG
And here's a really cool robot-in-action picture:
http://www.mercury1089.com/main/gall...5/DSC00945.JPG

Here's a good in-the-pits scouting picture:


And last, and sorry to all of you dial-up users (if there are any XD).
Here's the yearbook spread my team members & I put together for 2006:




...if anyone wants to do anything with these photos, let me know.
I'd be more than happy to give you larger versions. :D

I really like the poster of that little girl! It's adorable!

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I like this one because it shows where FIRST was and where it is today.


Here are some of my other random favorites:

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A couple more since the first message had too many images:

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man stop with the FL pics...i think i'm going to cry!

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See you're inspired! :D

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Most of my FIRST photos are still on 35mm film and prints, but I was able to find this on a CD.

Someone from 229 ask the young lady in this photo if she was inspired meeting Dr Flowers?

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Wow Ed, that is one fantastic shot.

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Here are a few from 229 I will post more later.

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Mentor- Student watch the mascots during field problems

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High quality photos are always better, but these were the best two I could find of this very moment - the drive teams (and then some!) of teams 45, 930, and 269 at the Midwest Regional 2004. It was such a tense moment, waiting for the scores to the 2nd finals match to show up, and everyone that had snuck into the drivers station area linked arms to wait for the scores to appear.

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Just some photos from inspiring the whole community. Chuck used to voyage out into local parades.

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This is actually quite a great thread. Here is one of my favorite pictures from my team. We had a robotics expo in the Winter Garden a big business center in downtown manhattan. The looks on these little kids faces as they watched our robots made it all worthwhile.

http://rassi.ath.cx/stuypulse/view_p... d=awekidsJack

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I've always liked this one:

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http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics...3431312e4a5047

We had the local elementary school come down and look at the robots, and we let them drive some of our old ones. They were amazed. Best pic i could find, unfortunately, the kid looks confused.

http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics...3430382e4a5047

This one turned out OK as well.
It was really neat to see the kid's faces when they were driving.

While it isnt about winning, or teaching, or learning, it is about having fun, which is why i'm posting this photo. Fun fact: The guy in the photo has the initials MC :D
http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics...3139332e6a7067

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Ahem,*cough cough*, Adam, I thought you said this wasn't going to hit the press. :p

Explanation: I was bored, saw some earmuffs and a turn table, and just had to bust out some mad beats. :D

Any way, if you want funny, I got a couple for ya.

When we got our parts in from the water jet shop, we realized just how "deadly" our pieces look, so we decided to go Soul Caliber on each other :p http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics...3131372e4a5047

That same day, some one noticed that I happened to "match" one of the girls on the team, so how could we not take a picture? http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics...3131362e4a5047

Fun times.

Mike C. (otherwise know as Mix Masta Mike)

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not sure is this is inspirational, but definitely hilarious. this is what happens when you get a Norwegian foreign exchange student(right) on the team with roushey while they are trying to figure out Triple Play.

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Teamwork at its best

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That's me and my brother and sister on the last day before ship last year. They finally got to come see the robot that day, and they were amazed. Seeing the looks on their faces when we were driving it around was awesome to say the least, and I think that's what convinced my sister to go to the summer tech camp run by our school system.

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The power of invention

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http://www.phxhs.k12.az.us/education...88&pagecat=175

The link has a few pictures from our Regional (most include members holding our Chairman's Award trophy). In the last one David Luhan, one of our state's Congressman is in the background.

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someday i will learn how to post pictures
http://www.gpgearheads.org/gallery/2...nta2005104_RT8
a pic from last year at nationals, not really inspirational, but the emotion flows.

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This wasn't at a competition but I still think it looks good.
I call it "Our Future"

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i love this pic because it shows how much different teams can come together and help one another out in a time of need

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Heh.
We got a picture like that also.
We call it "The Littlest X-Cat" though I think now she's more like to become a Sparx.

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who's that?

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That's Alda holding Rick and Chris Bryant's baby.

I guess she'd be about 3 or 4 right now.

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i remember that night, i was prob about 10 ft to the left

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tehe, i see a UFH in the picture.

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I remember harrassing you guys to go get your controller all night long.
I have no idea how were going to be able to do it this year with all those glass cases all over the place. I dread having balls flying all over the place and blowing Xerox's budget ahving to pay for all tha damage. :eek:

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whats with all the babies?




this is my team giving the trophy to one of our mentors

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this is a pic of me and my lil bro after he coached the drives team to victory at FLR, he may not have dont FIRST if i didnt

me and my brother

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I've seen two of them in regards to Raider Robotix (25).

The first is the one shown on the cover of the book that's going to be released by FIRST. It has 25 battling another robot in a really cool action shot.



The second is of our old driver Steve at nationals..which I can't seem to find right now, but it's in one of the FIRST Championship Galleries. He's putting his hands on the driver's station glass and Woodie does the same on the other side (field).

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This pic is from a RoboRaiders demo at a 4H fair two years ago. Students: Andrew Duch, Eric Chang, and John Czernikowski

Photo Credit: Elisa Duch

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This isnt from the regional but from my mentors garage which is where we worked. Its an amazing picture.

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This may not look very inspiring,but everytime I go back and look at it I remember how much I learned at my first regional and how far I have come.

We almost had that darned 2002 Beatty BEAST, this is right after they knocked us out in the semis, we took them to 3 matches.

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here is a picture from a fundraiser that we did about 2 months ago

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RETURN TO SENDER -

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I love this picture, we threw on some words for the Chairmans submission photo.

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This is sooo cute! :)

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This picture captures the busyness of the competitions!

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makes me want to win!

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The whole look of this picture speaks professionalism, starting with the polos and khakis. Wow.

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