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I am sure this topic has been used time and time again, but sitting here at Ball State University, I had some free time on my hands and thought I'd bring it up again.
Since I've come to college, I've been really missing my old team, and find myself reminiscing about past robotics seasons. I was wondering what all of your most memorable moments from FIRST are--moments that are forever etched in your memory that you can't help but smile when you think about. It doesn't have to be from this past season, but from any year. What is the one moment you will never forget? For me, it's probably a combination of all the pep-talks and encouraging words I received from all the mentors I worked with, but especially the film crew mentors. I will never forget the advice I got during 2007 nationals from my mentor. I was on the main floor, taking pictures of all the goings-on, and as the day went on, I kept getting more sad because it was my last year/event on Team Hammond. My mentor noticed this, and gave me a peptalk. He said, "I know you're feeling sad right now. And you have every reason to be. But if you feel sad now, you're going to miss out on feeling excited and happy about what's happening. You won't be able to take in the moment. So, you have two choices. You can either stay sad and miss out now, or be sad later, and take in all the wonderful experiences there are here. It's your choice. But I think I know what you're gonna chose." And thanks to his words of advice, I lived up the moment and had an awesome time. What moment will you remember forever? And don't worry about sounding long-winded. Look at my post! :) |
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Winning Regional Chairman's at Wisconsin last year. It was just such a shock to us.
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I don't have any specific moments. I have a few that stand out more but there is no "most memorable" moment for me. One of them was in 2006 Atlanta, I learned that in the face of all that is wrong, you need to have a bit of faith and to not over react. At Bayou '07 I ran to our robot which was getting ready to play and I had to put on one of those blue pins that drivers have to try to fix some controls problem. As soon as my mentor and I fixed the problem we were relieved, but the excitement and the pressure and the adrenaline rush of just having to do your best in less than a minutes time was something that nothing can beat. Soon afterwards at the Lone Star regional, I was jumping up and down because I couldn't sit still in the eliminations because many of the matches were very close and one of my mentors kept saying something along the lines of "in the end everything everything will turn out OK."
And then how could I forget IRI 2007 and the gracious professionalism and teamwork shown by many people from different teams coming together to give Andy a special treat! |
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Finals at San Diego this year was nice.... first time since '03 that happened.
It was also nice giving 330 their only loss of the regional after they beat us so many matches before (preship scrimmage,and qualifying matches at LA/SD). They're good people though... definately deserved the two regionals & Division win. |
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The one I'll remember from this season: watching our team go through alliance selection as the #12 seed. Since we had no scoring ability whatsoever, our only realistic hope was to become an alliance captain. The sixth alliance made their pick, which left two teams above us: 804 and 1746. At this point, I figure we're seeing backup duty (for the second straight year in my case, as 1293 found itself there the year before)...until 804 picks 1746.
If our operator down on the far side of the field heard my shout, I wouldn't be surprised. |
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The night we finished our 2007 robot and realized how awesome it was.
Most of my team considers our 2005 & 2006 robots failures. They weren't much to be proud of :( But the 2007 robot was amazing. That first night restored a huge amount of confidence to our team. It was the first time in years that we could be proud of what we had built. |
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I originally had started to write something about being the new driver as a first year student, but about halfway through I thought of another unforgettable experience. Detroit regional 2007.
After being defeated in a very rough and aggravating quarterfinal, I was pretty much devastated. Being the new driver, I felt like I had totally let the team down, so I just went outside and sat by myself for a little bit. When I came back in I still couldn't bring myself to sit with the team, so I watched some matches from the TVs in the pit. Last year's driver found me, gave a little cheerup talk, and we wnet to sit with some friends from team 469 and cheered on their alliance as they went on to become regional finalists. Cheering with them for the Guerrillas was so much fun, I had completely forgotten about how upset I was earlier. However, the excitement was just beginning. When the announcer got about halfway through his speech about the Chairmans' winner, I could see our 4 Chairman's writers start getting all antsy and excited up in the stands; obviously he had said something from their presentation. Sure enough, we had won the Regional Chairman's award. Greatest feeling ever, as we celebrated and hugged and cried and everything afterwards. While we were celebrating, one of our seniors had been down using the scoring computer for something. Suddenly, he came running up to us, screaming "I GOT INTO MIT!! I GOT INTO MIT!!!" I guess they posted their acceptances online at noon that day, so he used the computer to check it out. It was the perfect end to that day. I have some others from Atlanta, strategizing with Andy Baker or watching that incredible ramp in the Einstein finals or relaxing outside between matches, but the whole sequence of events at Detroit was just incredible, I don't think I'll ever forget it. |
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That moment came this year. I have been a part of a lot of alliances, but none of the provided the memories that the number 5 alliance at GLR provided. It was the first time I went out for selections, and we were the captains which made it cooler. We were able to edge out a very good alliance in the quarters, we even had a row of 256 in our second match.
But what made it memorable was our semifinal match. I don't know if people remember but teams 1114 and 67 were really good. Their third partner was team 57, who had a great year as well. They were the number one seed, and I think everyone in the building was picking them to win. We went into that match praying not to wind up on the wrong end of a beat down, but what happened was one of those moments where you realize why FIRST plays the matches. In game one, we eked out a victory, due to some brilliant spoiler play and a few nice tube placements. In game two, our alliance put up two spoilers, making it a win and securing what might be the biggest upset in official FIRST competition history. We went to the finals, only to have the wheels fall off. After taking game one, 1503 had arm trouble, and us and 1023 were not able to step up our games, we were defeated by a very potent number 2 alliance. Why I remember this, it was the most fun I have ever had in a competition. It was such a great competition, and playing that number one alliance was one of the most intense and fun experiences of my life. I still think of it as one of our best matches ever. |
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Getting the Regional Inspirational Engineering Award at Davis.
Actually, the best part was HOW we got it. So, it's Sunday (Sunday? Saturday? I don't remember. Last day of the regional.) and we're sitting up there in the stands. Because I'm a scout/machinist, I've been watching other teams bots the whole time and when the announcers begin to read out the description for an award, I guess the team. Our team was pretty sure we'd get the safety award. One of my friends was quite disappointed that we had put so much effort into everything and still didn't get to go to Atlanta. I told him "What if we don't get safety and we get the Engineering award instead?". He wrote the question off and continued to be disappointed. Anywho, the announcer started to read the paper for the engineering award and I begin to think "Gee, this team has done a lot. Heck, they even went to NUMMI like we did." The announcer continued, giving more hints. After he mentioned how old the team was, I kept thinking it was 670 or somebody REALLY close to us. One of my teammates (the person who talked to the announcers or whoever about our team) was convinced that it was us (what they said was almost verbatim apparently). The announcer said "Six". I paid closer attention. Still thinking it was 670. The announcer said "Seven". Still thought it was 670. I was ready to stand up and applaud a team that we had been on good terms with for two years and had acheived quite a bit. The announcer said "Five". I swear, it was almost as if a human explosion of cheering, laughing, crying and love burst out all around me. In a stupor (quite literally) some of us were crying, we were all hugging each other, stumbling over one another, not knowing how to feel or react and just letting emotions take over. Now, lets pause here. My team didn't know that you were invited to Atlanta for that. So we were happy that we acheived something big, but the best news hadn't come yet. Resume... So we all begin to run down there, watching the other teams stand and applaud us, giving us high-fives as we run/jog/walk past them, and I'm thanking each and every one of them on the way. We get down to the field, accept our trophies and medals, and go back to where we were sitting, all celebrating and happy. Apparently one of the judges said to one of our mentors "Good luck in Atlanta". That's when the REAL crying began. I swear, I was crying for about two hours after that. No joke. My Dad and step-mom who already left got a phone call, my sister got a phone call, my mother was there (to watch me become overflowed with emotion), and when we got down to the pits more crying and hugging and cheering and such continued. We then went out front and all talked about Atlanta, the award, etc, taking tons of photos with our awards and the team and such. So yeah. That's my most memorable FIRST moment. While being in Atlanta was really fun (but a LOT of work -- I was suprised! Being a scout was hard enough as it is, so it's a good thing that the build team (mainly Blake and myself) built the chassis so well that I didn't have to fix it), I'd say that it definately didn't top the satisfaction of finding out we were going in the first place. -Mike |
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Wow. This is very similar to what happened to me in the Israeli Regional, but it wasn't this exciting, dangit!:ahh: |
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Foe me itgetting the result of SM 1.2 lof Aim Gigh's Israeli regional.
We were an all rookie alliance, with me as alliance captain. The reult of SM 1.1 was in our favour. The second match we scored only 1 canter goal and didnt get up to any ramp. It was a very low scoring, defensive match. The final result was 5-4 in our favor, we were in the finals, and as far as i know, the only alliance ever in any FIRST regional, with all-rookie teams. I couldn't stop jumping and hugging everyone for about 2 minutes. After those 2 minutes i went to shake hands with all the driving team of the opposing alliance. It was amazing! |
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For me the start of the 2007 started on a downer, because I lost a very dear friend of mine in December. So once we started building it was nice to have a distraction. We were coming off a really lucky win from the Cal Games, so we took what we learned there and realized that defense could do well in Rack 'n' Roll. So we named our robot after my late friend. We ended up with a little aluminum box on wheels. At SVR we competed as hard as we could, and at the end of Saturday I saw us in the top 5 in standings. I looked to my seconed in command and I remember saying "We might pull this off..." After our last qualifying round I remember watching the board, seeing if we would drop down, and when I saw the final standings we were sitting third. So we picked 190 who were seeded below us (which was funny since our mentor went to WPI many years ago) Then it came around to our pick again, and I asked 190's captain what she thought, and she said 1280... So I picked our schools biggest rival in everything else to be our alliance partner (that was fun to explain to our principal, when he asked "Did we beat San Ramon?!") At the end of the day, we couldn't believe it. But that truely was my happiest moment of my Senior year, and my most memorable moment in FIRST.
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This is easy to answer.
This year at the 2006 Waterloo regional we knew our rivals 1114 and only one other team were our compitition at winning our first regional chairmans award. Our team had only 4 seasoned members. So our entire chairmans team was full of nOObs, myself being one of them. At the engineering inspiration award we were pumped hoping for this as our ticket to Atlanta, however team 1114 won it. At this point our team was dissapointed and then someone said "oh my god, oh my god look at Karthik guys!!" It was almost creepy becasue he was staring straight at us with this little grin. At this point Hafize grabbed my shoulder...no like clenched it as if she was having birth. And anyone with 2 sections of our stand could hear her almost yelping with excitement while we were going "QUIET HAFIZE LISTEN TO OUR AMAZING SPEECH!" Once Karthik finished listing our accomplishments and such we went and claimed our award. NOTE: we realized after that the other team won another award that would have meant they wernt winning chairmans or engineering inspiration. So once 1114 was announced we should have know right away without the stare. BUt honestly though it was the stare and hafize's excitement that made this an amazing first moment. |
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I really don't know.
One of my favorites definitely happened this March though. On Thursday of the VCU Regional, our inspector was so impressed that he stopped our inspection to take pictures of our robot. If that doesn't make you proud of your robot, I have no clue what will. |
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Okay, I've been thinking about this, and I might want to change my answer...
(I know it was my own question and it seems silly to want to change my answer, but there are sooo many memorable FIRST moments, it's impossible to narrow them down! hahaha) This year, Team Hammond was involved in the first ever Green Machine Fuel Cell Competition. I had done extensive amount of work, along with several other team members and mentors to finish the research project. At the West Michigan Regional, I was just doing my film crew thing--taking pictures, helping with video, etc., when one of the pit crew mentors came up to me and asked if I would like to be the student to represent the team during alliance pickings. Now, usually this honor is bestowed upon someone from the pit crew or the drive team, because they work with the robot more than those from other aspects of the team. Needless to say, I felt EXTREMELY honored that they would chose me to be our team's representative. When I asked why they chose me, my mentor said that they had all discussed it, and they agreed that I had done a lot of work over this past year and that it would be nice to let me be the representative. My film crew mentors were extremely proud of me, because it was the first time that someone from film crew was chosen to be a representative. I will never forget the true honor I felt when I walked out onto the field to accept the team that wanted us as an alliance partner. I know that to many, this might not seem to be that big of a deal, but it was to me. It showed me what FIRST is really all about: hardwork, determination, and perseverance will all eventually pay off. |
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My moment isn't really during high school FIRST, though there were many extremely memorable ones. Honorable mention goes to finding out that Mr. Steve Florence was given the Woodie Flowers Award at Buckeye 2007 - I started crying when I heard it, Flo is my hero.
This moment is recent and very meaningful to me. IRI 2007: I had taken a year off from FIRST, a year to step away from FIRST, to focus on school. I had hoped to attend a regional competition or two, maybe even volunteer in Atlanta, but other things (lack of cash, spring break adventure trip) had come up and my year off really became a full year off. I had signed up to volunteer at IRI 2007, an event one hour from my home town. As I drove to the airport the Thursday night before, I was completely torn with emotion. I wondered if I had become disillusioned, if I would feel that spark that FIRST leaves in each and every one of us, or if I would spend the weekend feeling like an outsider. As it turns out, FIRST has no expiration date, no time condition that says you must return in such and such time. People I had not seen in over a year (2 or 3 in some cases) pulled me into joyous hugs, new friends introduced themselves warmly, and I found myself putting pins on my shirt, losing my voice, and wondering how on earth I had survived a year without this. Thank you IRI 2007, thank you robotics, and thank you especially to all my dear friends for teaching me that FIRST evolves with each and every one of its members. |
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I would have to say winning Florida regional this year. I remember when my team was brand new and it was our first year going to this regional. We always dreamed of winning it. This year my first as a mentor after 3 years as a student on 1251, we finally won it as the 4th seeded allience captian. Since our high school is in Florida many of our alumni were there (all minus 2) and we all hung out after and I remember us after at dinner being in a state of unbelief saturday night that we won Fl regional. Just a great time and great experience.
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I remember cheering with you guys :D I think my most memorable FIRST experience was definitely the Elims in Atlanta. We didn't get as far as we hoped but as Grant said before, we had other teams cheering with us. Cheering right behind the field with members of 1114, 469, 226 and 217 alike was surely amazing. Even when we got out we were still there for each other. My FIRST friends are the ones I count on and theyre always there. I think thats def. the most memorable moment in FIRST :D |
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Although I'm only halfway through my time on 1923, I've been going to events since I was really little, and I'm sure I'll have many more memorable FIRST moments-- but this one sticks out from the recent past: Monty Madness 2007.
You can read the full story here, I'm not going to post it all again, but essentially, a team I've known since I was very young showed some fantastic gracious professionalism, and our team got the opportunity to play in the finals because of it. We didn't win, but I'm going to have to say it was just as good. Oh, and our mentor won Woodie Flowers Jr at the same event. Having been the student that spoke to the judges and nominated him for it, I was so excited! |
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IRI 2006
semifinal 2-2 71,1625,910 vs 25,1114,33 if you weren't there you missed the greatest first match i've ever seen. it still would've been the greatest to me if my team wasn't in it. |
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UC Davis Mascot 06-07 Dance off (Im the robot)
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Houston Championships 2003. My first year on team 836, i was the human player, well my dad couldn't be there but was watching the web cast i call him in the morning let him know when our matches were and stuff, right before the match started i would wave my red hat to signal where i was on the field, and so started the kid in the red hat. 2003 what a year.
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I have had so many memorable experiences I cannot choose just one. Simply put, the times that really standout for me have been the Woodie Flowers presentations. From one of my first Championships when Bill Beatty received his award through Dan Green last year. Even better is knowing so many of these special people, Kyle Hughes, Ken Patton, Paul Copioli, Dave Kelso, Dave Verbrugge, Liz Calef, Mike Bastoni, and Rob Mainieri. But the one that stands out was being down front when Andy Baker was announced. The shock and awe on Andy's face in Houston was perfect Baker and the whole team was just jumping and screaming. Any time you get to talk with a WFA is momentous occassion.
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I have two:
1. Being the first team ever to get 3 perfect scores in FLL, and at the world festival. 2. Last day of build season programming night. We were trying to make the pre-set positions for our arm when one of our other programmers found a wire bundler. It is a braided nylon tube, that he thought was a chinese finger trap. He got stuck in it for about a half hour and we had some fun pulling him around by it. The whole time he was screaming "I have to take my ACT like this tomorrow!" We finally told him to run it under some water, and he got it off after screaming because the water was cold.:) |
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definentely my favorite moment was the 2002 ksc regional (i know, it's old school:) ). we lost the first match of the finals, then us (343) and 180 won the next to matches over 312 and 945. the last match was a very emotional, ever-changing match. it was the greatest match i have ever seen, and i have seen a lot.
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My most memorable moment from FIRST has to be, hands down, the last day of Nationals in 2000.
I was the driver for Gael Force, and I had just gotten accepted to WPI. Back then, to get the WPI scholarship, your team had to be voted on by all of the other teams. We had spent a lot of time on the past two days playing politics and talking to a lot of teams about my situation and asking if they'd please vote for us. I flat out could not afford to go to WPI. Even with loans it would have been insane. Saturday morning rolls around and we're all sitting in the stands on Einstein. Woodie begins to announce the scholarship winners (there were only a few back then, so they actually took the time to say them all), and he finally gets to Worcester after a few minutes seeing how it's at the end of the alphabet. When he said "The WPI Design Innovation Scholarship goes to Team 126 Gael Force", I literally fell into my seat because I couldn't stand up anymore. The team members than poured on top of me as hugs, high fives, and back slaps were going all around. I then borrowed a mentor's cell phone and called my parents to let them know I had won. They didn't believe me at first and thought that I was kidding, but as I tried to explain, the Voices of Liberty had started signing the Brazilian national anthem, so I hung up out of respect. I called them back in a few hours after a couple of matches to bring them up to speed. Later that day, we battled our way to the top and found ourselves in the finals againgst 25 and their alliance. We won the first round, but then lost the latter two. While we may have lost, I was still the happiest person in the world having a National Finalist medal on my neck and knowing that my college tuition was taken care of now. To this day, it's still probably the best day of my life. :D |
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Mine, sadly, isn't of 675 getting the EI award last year, as I had graduated the year before and was in college something like 2,500 miles away. The year before holds my most prominent memory.
Quarterfinals at San Jose, 670, 675 and 256 against the cheesy poofs alliance. 670 was substituting for 1120, the top ranked team in our alliance after a gearbox failure in the first match. Match goes on for a while with 670 keeping the poofs out of position to score in the high goal while 675 and 256 dump an obscene number of balls in the small goal. The poofs tip and we continue to dump as much as we can in the bottom goal, winning by 2-5 points, iirc. This was the first loss for the poofs at SJ, from what I recall. The thunderous roar from the crowd was amazing, and I still remember it pretty well. |
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I'll have to say that my fondest memory of FIRST was wearing a really silly bib, on the field, with 8 other captains.
"team 1578 invites team 1577 to join it's alliance" ahh.... that brings a huge smile to my face... :) that moment made me feel great because it made me realize I had achieved a goal I had set myself almost 4 years ago: I was watching stack attack clips on TechTV and said to myself: "I wish I could do that...." --- well... I did!!! I don't think there will ever be a year I won't be involved in FIRST in one way or another, partly because how happy I felt at that moment. thanks for reminding me.... -Leav |
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Walking into the tent city in the parking lot of Epcot, '02.
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Actually that day was pretty big for me from the other side of the field. I remember losing that round because your alliance as picking our black balls from the goals as fast as we stole them from yours! Our team suddenly got lots of attention. Within 24 hrs I was having my head shaved on Good Morning America. And I should point out that 25 was the third in our team and next to last pick overall for the alliance selections. The teams from San Jose (Foothills HS) and Napa (Vintage HS.) , Ca made the alliance a reality. We owe a lot to Kenny Vargas of Foothills. That season was the spark that lighted the fuse for team 25. Life has never been the same since. I hope our efforts have helped to light sparks for other teams. WC |
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One other moment I'll always remember was Palmetto 2004. My first event ever (as I wouldn't really convert to my globe-trotting ways until that fall), and it was practice day. SPAM was on the field with their short little omni drive, and I looked away for a couple of seconds. When I looked back, they were already hooked on the bar and winching themselves upward. It was about then that I realized just how spectacular some of these robots could be.
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THE WHOLE FREAKING THING... It flew by too fast... -vivek p.s. good thing I am only a sophomore this year. |
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The eliminations at SVR 2007 hands down. Not the finals, not the semifinals, but the quarterfinals. This wasn't a 5 match brawl either, and from any other person's point of view, it was nothing remarkable.
But I am alumnus and active mentor of Team 971, Spartan Robotics. This is their home regional, and was their first time back in the eliminations since 2004. This time it was as the 1st pick of #7 alliance, headed by 1700. And they were facing my other team, Team 190, in the quarterfinals. I have never cheered harder, not even at the 07 Champs, than I did for those 3 matches. 190 is going back to SVR in 08, and I'm hoping this year I can see them both on the same side of the field for the finals. |
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The most special moment for me occurred at the 2006 GTR. The Team 4 "One-Day Wonder" experience (GP+ help from many teams), being part of the "Team Division by Chicken Element" vs Triplets matches, and the incredible atmosphere of the two-field Super Regional was awesome beyond words. |
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I seem to be accumulating a lot of special and wonderful memories and moments. One that stands out for me this year was meeting Mrs. Mary Baker at the 2007 Championship in Atlanta. She's just cool.
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i'm gonna have to go with having random casual conversation with Dean Kamen at championchips my freshman year and not knowing who he was until opening cerimonys............./having ongoing conversations with his brother Bart Kamen to this day.
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Oh, there are so many. A few of the most memorable:
-The time our robot caught on fire but won the regional anyway (2006 at Silicon Valley) -The time we beat the Cheesy Poofs at Silicon Valley (2007) -When our driver got into hockey skates and was chased around the build room (2007, and our build room is full of drafting tables and sharp edges) -The time that only a few of us where left in the room and began to balance the leftover pieces of wood from building the half-a-rack on our heads and try to blow each others' off (I think it may actually have been later that night, after 9:30pm or something. Our build sessions are supposed to end at 9:00om on school nights. :rolleyes: ) -The time three of us (as 2006 freshmen Solidworkers) began to label each new hopper design as "For the Love of God Don't Keep Changing the Design 1, For the Love of God Don't Keep Changing the Design 2, For the Love of God Don't Keep Changing the Design 3," etc... - And don't forget the time that we hooked up three batteries to an aluminum pole and short-circuited the whole thing to generate sparks (2007, I think), whence came this quote, somewhere along the lines of "And thank you to Nick Felt, who risked death by electrocution so we could all [see sparks]." I don't remember the exact order of any of these; they're all mixed up in a whirlwind of fun, sleep deprivation and excitement. I look forward to many more memories this year! |
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I have been involved one way or another for 3 years and I can't seem to cut it down to just one best memory so I will list a few
#1 would be the first kickoff for 1902 when a group of 25 people, most of whom had never met immediatly bonded over the video and then spent the next 8 hours designing and troubleshooting and listening and learning. #2 is watching the look of horror on the teams face when we realized we had to compete against PINK in the semi-finals at Florida, then the look of amazements when we beat them. #3 getting Rookie All star that year #4 my sons face (drive team) when we won Galileo in Atlanta #5 Jane (418) Libby, Billfred, Maddie, Tytus, Arefin, Brian and all the others from all over the country #6 Being in Las Vegas this year with 4 other Florida teams, sitting in a block screaming each others cheers showing LV how we roll in Florida but the best was at Florida last year. There was a team that was falling apart both emotionally and robotwise and we gathered several mentors from several teams and within an hour you could look down on their pit and see shirts from about 8 different teams helping them redesign and build a robot that went on to win its first match. That to me defines the spirit of FIRST. |
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