Re: Get angry at a member
 

2 years ago, my team gave an award to one such individual... it was a glide mounted to a plaque.

Apparently the story behind it was that 4 years ago, the person picked up the glide, and it fell off the track, and all the bearings fell out. I think the cost of the part was upwards of $200, needless to say it was ruined.

Everyone had a good laugh when the award was presented.

Re: Get angry at a member
 

As the wise and powerful Baker once said to us, "Break it early" and "Celebrate Mistakes". These both can and will help you improve in the future.

Re: Get angry at a member
 

It's not like it was on purpose. Your being extremely mean. I'm sure the kid already feels bad, but now your letting the whole FIRST community know that they messed up. What on earth is the purpose of this thread? Go tell your best friend, not us. (This isn't meant to be a mean reply, but this post was bashing it's own team member. That isn't right.) Think before you post.

Re: Get angry at a member
 

Echoing what some other people have said..

It could have been worse (much worse), it could have been at the competition in the last match, similar to what I did:

It was the last match for us, we were ranked #15 (although we got lucky in a few matches) and we knew that this match would determine if we got picked for eliminations or not. Even if we didn't win (we didn't expect to because our alliance partners were having some tech problems) we had to perform well to show that we were good. So during the match, everyone is yelling, I panic and turn the robot full speed around the corner. I misjudged the corner and hit another robot at 18fps with our PVC gripper down. Needless to say the PVC exploded into a lot of pieces, the impact popped our main drive chain off so we couldn't move, we got a penalty for high speed ramming, a yellow card for the same thing, and our robot was turned off for aggressive driving.

I can almost guarantee you that I felt the worst out of anyone at the competition that day and had utterly let my team down. Now I would guess that your friend probably feels just as bad and just try not to give them a hard time. I know you might be over it this time, but the same idea extends to anytime this may happen. Just try to fix whatever may be broken and make sure the person doesn't feel too bad, because FIRST not just about robots, it's also about people and learning to interact with them.

Hope this helps everyone and not just the original poster. Remember that someone out there has probably done something worse.

-Greg P.