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this thread is for any one who has success stories, won awards, or are record holders for the year 2008 (overdrive).
I would like to have people post from all over the country (or world for that matter) a simple post stating what awards, records or stories you have will suffice, any private messages you would like to add are welcome. oh- also state your team name and number, school name, and what have you. congratulations to all winners/record holders. I know this is a little pre-emptive so i would like to have the stories keep coming. ATL is still off in the distance but there are already teams that know they are going. 1647 (my team) went to the trenton regional and the PHL regional and we saw some very deserving winners there. so congratulations and good luck folks!! (rookie posts are encouraged- i love to hear inspiring rookie wins!!!)

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We have been very fortunate to have won 6 awards at VCU and the Hawaii regionals.:D The Chairman's was the icing on the cake.:p
We have also been fortunate to have added another finalist and/or regional winner to our team history.
Only in 2006, have we not made a finals match, considering for our first 5 years, we only did one regional per year.

2008 VCU Entrepreneurship Award
2008 VCU Website Award
2008 VCU Motorola Quality Award
2008 Hawai Entrepreneurship Award
2008 Hawaii Regional Finalist
2008 Hawaii Chairman's Award.

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we won the rookie all-star award at glr and the team spirit award at the kettering pilot rookie competition

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we were lucky enought to win the las vegs regional, chairmans, and are mentor got woody flowers

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dude I don't mean to rain on your parade but most teams do not win an award. :(

Doing an "in your face" thread with 14 exclamation points in the title isn't really GP. :p

FIRST isn't really about the awards. it's not even about the competition. it's about the road to the regional.

Awards exist to help create a sense of achievement and accomplishment - they exist so that we all have something to aspire to. :o

Good job though! 6 awards is pretty impressive! :D

-Leav

p.s.

Just think about the team who worked their butts off but didn't get any awards.... how does this thread make them feel?

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Won the Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award at FLR, for our reliable Hybrid mode and neat controls deck. Thanks to the design team and the student/robocoach and the mentor, that worked and tested the hybrid mode 4 weeks.

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We fully completly changed our winch desing between our practice matches 1 and 2 and it worked even though having the two motors being attached with zipties but having one ziptie break right at the end of the long time practice match(5min) and then getting it bolted to the bot before our 3rd.

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Last year, we started a new community competition robotics club and had three mentors and five students. We built an FTC robot and went to the finals in the first Washington tournament. This year, with four students not returning to the team, we recruited 20 new students and four new mentors, and entered three teams in the Washington tournament. All three of our robots worked well, and any of them could have been in the finals of the event -- all did go to the semis and one to the finals. Team 417 was the #1 rated robot after qualifying, and Team 418 was #2.

For a bunch of rookies, they did amazingly well. I am so proud of them you can probably see me smiling right over the Internet. :]

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We lifted the entire field... :rolleyes:

We also won Safety and Imagery. :)

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I'd partially agree with this. If you look, copperhead didnt say his team won any awards. He is asking for stories of others success. You need to celebrate the success of others. In my opinion, one of the best ways to improve your team is by observing others. If Copperhead would have just bragged about his team only, it would be different. Also, he asks for stories. I'm sure if your team didnt win an award you still have a story you could share.

Now about my team....
We won Chairmans in WI. We were very happy all our hard work paid off.

We also had this. The week after WI, we went to Buckeye and we didnt win a single award. We were all very happy though, we had fun and we felt like we were noticed at the tournament.

Joey

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We won the hard hat pins at SVR for getting the most safety tokens, and although I don't want to take anything away from the team that did win the Safety Award, I believe we would have won that, too, if we hadn't won it last year :yikes:

And even if you didn't win any awards, every team that competed (hopefully) has something to be proud of. It's not all about awards...

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Team 1625 (Winnovation) received the following awards:

Midwest Regional:
Judges Award
Autodesk Visualization Award
Regional Semi-Finalist (delivering 1114 their only elimination defeat :eek: )

Wisconsin Regional:
GM Industrial Design Award
Regional Semi-Finalist

Colorado Regional:
Regional Champions
Engineering Inspiration Award

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We made it through a 17th year in FIRST.
As 4 others teams can attest to, that's really hard to do.
Congratulations to our fellow flagship teams for sticking with the program through thick and thin and showing all the "newbies" how it's done.



































oh.
and we won our second regional ever in our history......

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Team 910's accomplishments for the season were.

WMR
Semifinalists, thanks to 1504 and 2337.
And we were quite thrilled that Mr. John Crombe won the WFA. He deserves it for all the work he's put into making the team what it is today.

GLR-
Judges Award for our robotics class.
Finalists, thanks to teams 66 and 217.

And our own personal achievement. We had a working robot right out of the crate at WMR and it is one of the best robots we've ever had. I am incredibly proud of what the team has accomplished this year.

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We won GP at Davis, an award which I humbly believe we truly earned. When we go to the competition our neighbor (2633?) Deer Valley High School, uncrated their robot and what came out made me speechless. Because they were a rookie team They really had no idea about the basics of FIRST that we all have memorized. They brought a 38x38 (base dimensions) robot with all white wires, a misconstructed scissor lift (ball knock off only), and three members. My phrasing in this description is not to degrade the amazing effort put forward by this rookie team, but to fully convey the degree of work that had to be done on their robot. First thing that happened on thursday was we gave them Joe, our electrical/manufacturing guy. He is no pawn, loosing him from our pit was a huge blow to the success of our robot, ultimately causing its inability to compete by the end of the competition. However, I believe it was the right decision. He spent more time in their pit then in our own. Our tools became more Deer Valley's then ours.

Dougherty Valley was a new school in our area, built to lower class sizes at all the surrounding schools. This was their first year open so they only had sophomores and freshmen. Our past Mentor, Mr. Jackson, started teaching at that school for several complicated reasons and obviously had to start a team there. With all new members, a new school, and being rookie year, it was amazing the quality robot that they produced. While just a simple box robot it was well and elegantly constructed, only encountering one burning electrical issue (pun intended). But none of the kids nor the adults, nor Mr. Jackson new how to program. So when they got here they asked us. This meant our programmer had to write code for three different robot simultaneously! He did however pull it off, but we had to sacrifice our hopes for getting our IR board to work.

By the end of friday our whole team went home laughing that The teams we helped ended up having better robots then us, do to several things breaking in our electronics (loss of Joe) which led to an out of control robot that broke our manipulator. Deer Valley got their scissor lift working largely due to the efforts of Joe and of an adult for a team that I have forgotten, I have a guess but I fear being wrong. Dougherty was in 11th place, running their robot well as defensive lap bot mix. We had E-stopped every match.

Saturday Qualifications went very much the same. We had issues with our robot, and we spent a lot of time helping the other teams. By Selections we had stripped mostly everything off our robot in frustration and it was clear to us we would not be picked. Neither was Deer Valley OR Dougherty. I remember congratulating Dougherty on their amazing rookie season, and that getting 10th place was no feat to be coughed at. Boy was I wrong in thinking the night was over.

As 1458 (us) and 2390 (Dougherty) went up into the stands and watched the elims, we laughed and cheered until the semis rolled around. A announcement came over the PA system "Will a representative from the drive team of 2390 please see pit Admin". It took me a second to realize that 2390 was first on replacement and that 1072 had just suffered a huge issue. When I turned around, half the 2390 team and our drive team were all running down to the field. They were told that they may need to replace 1072. Well 1072 played 3 more matches so we thought that it was a false alarm, until Finals match one when 2390 appared on the field. So at that point both us and team 1516 (another local high school) rushed to the field to cheer on Dougherty. In between cheers we would pass advice to the novice drive team. Reminding them to stay inside the lines and such. By the end of the two matches we were all horse. Then we won GP which was a great surprise since we didn't do any of the little things I call award beggers. Such as first aid kits for Safety award, or team awards for GP. If your still reading this, you must be really bored! But thanks