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ebarker 30-03-2008 22:49
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Originally Posted by Woody1458 (Post 727423)
If your still reading this, you must be really bored! But thanks
enjoyed the story very much !!

BRAVESaj25bd8 30-03-2008 22:56
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Well I know that as a first year mentor, I personally had an interesting year. We had two students work through the entire design process basically by themselves and they learned a ton. Six people got to have the taste of being on the field during a match, all of whom had a blast. We worked our butts off with fund raising to attend two regionals this year. We managed to go to our first ever practice event and had a lot of fun. Our programmer got to become a builder for four out of the six weeks and then got to have his autonomous code score more points in a single match than our robot did all of last year(excluding climbing ramps). We have many graduating seniors, one of whom was steered into a career with animation because of being part of FIRST. We learned a ton this year and had a great time doing it.

Sorry if bragging about these accomplishments is a bad thing in anyone's eyes but I am too proud of all the hard working kids I had the privilege of mentoring this year to not brag about the great things they did. I've been a driver for 3 exciting regional finals but seeing our team grow so much this year makes it my favorite year in FIRST. Congrats to all you guys on those awards too! Great work!

smurfgirl 30-03-2008 23:23
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If you asked someone from our community about our team, they'd probably tell you how the ÜberBots won the CT Regional for the third consecutive year, seeding first and going undefeated for all three days. If they were really astute, they might even tell you about how we won the Entrepreneurship Award at the CT Regional for all of our community work.

Sure, winning sounds great at the event - who doesn't like to win? - but that's not the first thing I would think of if you asked me for our team's biggest success story over the years. The reason why I mentioned community recognition in the first paragraph, and the reason why we got the Entrepreneurship Award - the way we have grown and spread ourselves through the community over the years - is the thing I am most proud of.

Our team started as a small group, with maybe 12 students, back in 2003. Everyone who joined the team was interested in building the robot, and that's all. We had minimal sponsorship, and if you asked anyone in our town about us... they would have no idea what that robotics thing you mentioned is. 2006 was really when we started our team growth. By that year we had 24 students, and a decent number of sponsors. We started to get involved in the community, bringing the robot to the elementary schools in the town and to other public events. "ÜberBots" still wasn't really a key word for Avonians, but a few people knew who we were.

Throughout the 2006, 2007, and 2008 seasons, our team has exploded. We've held dozens of community events and many demonstrations for elementary and middle school students to help to get them interested in science and technology. In the 2008 season alone, we've reached almost 3000 students with our presentations. A large group of eighth graders who want to join our team next year came to watch us at the Connecticut Regional this year. At our most recent fundraiser, dozens of families from our town came to meet our robot, Lightning, and our team members. We brought a scrapbook and video from the competitions to show everyone what FIRST is about, and we taught kids how to drive our robot around. Not only does our town know all about the ÜberBots, people from adjacent towns, and far-off family members and their aquaitances know lots about our team. We now have 36 team members, whose interests vary from fundraising to spirit to CAD to programming to art to spirit to mechanical to leadership and beyond.

The thing that means the most to me... it's those 3000 kids, their parents, everyone our team is able to reach with our message of inspiration. The way their faces light up when they see our robot... that's the greatest feeling in the world to me. The smiles and the laughter, the fascinated questions, and the desire for them to become a part of it all... that couldn't be replaced by 10,000 trophies.

I am incredibly proud of our team for being able to get involved in people's lives and change them so much for the better; for being able to inspire people to follow their dreams, and this is the success story I want to share with the FIRST community. I want to thank FIRST for the impact it has made on my life, and I am so glad that I have the opportunity to pass it on to others. I hope that everyone else can have the amazing experience of being a role model and an inspiration to others.

=Martin=Taylor= 30-03-2008 23:33
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We built another cool looking robot that got recognized! :D That's all I care about!

I'm also proud of my team for submitting its first Chairmen's Award in our 13 year history. We didn't win, but we put forth a great effort and did a lot of great things to deserve it.

We also submitted a WFA submission to honor our lead advisor, who had been with the team since its begining and had taught in our district for an amazing 40 years. She didn't get the award, but we gave her our submission and that was good enough!


We also made it into both FIRST: Behind the Design Books. Which I regard as our team's crowning acomplishment. Its a pitty they aren't making one for '08, since we were looking forward to making another submission.

Mr. Lim 30-03-2008 23:44
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- we were eliminated in the semis of the GTR in a 3rd and final match decided by 2 points.

- we were drubbed in the finals of Waterloo by 2056, 1114 and 1680

- we failed to qualify for Atlanta this year via EI or RCA, both of which he had a "pretty good" chance at

YET

... last night our students celebrated like we'd just won the Superbowl ...

I can't explain it, but there was a beaming smile on each and every one of their faces. They laughed, sang, reminisced about the season(s) past, and spoke of all the amazing things still to be done in the future.

If that's not braggable, I don't know what is.

AndyB 30-03-2008 23:53
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171 walked away from Wisconsin with both a regional championship trophy and Rockwell Innovation's Innovation in Control award. Both of which, we are very proud of.

I just want to take a second though to congratulate team 93, NEW Apple Corp from Appleton, WI for the year they have had. You guys are truly what FIRST is all about and I can't think of many other teams that have done what you guys have in the past 11 years.

93, if you didn't know, here is how 93 faired this year:

Wisconsin
Engineering Inspiration
Regional Finalists

Minnesota
Gracious Professionalism
Industrial Safety
Innovation in Control
Regional Winners

Congratulations on the wonderful year and I hope to see you in Atlanta.


Another shout out goes to team 1816 and Mark Lawrence from Edina, Minnesota. If you weren't lucky enough to make it to the Twin Cities this weekend for the Minnesota Regional, you missed out. It was an amazing event and for a regional which contained 30 rookie teams, it was one of the smoothest running I've ever seen. 1816 is largely responsible, along with Mr. Lawrence and his interaction with many of the major businesses in Minnesota for raising the amount of teams in Minnesota from 2006's total of 2 teams to this year's total of 54. I've already heard of a similar increase next year which could result in a Minnesota Super Regional. (Twice the fields, twice the excitement).

Congratulations on your Chairman's award Green Machine and thank you Mark for the amazing regional.

Sam N. 30-03-2008 23:57
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Originally Posted by Woody1458 (Post 727423)
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
Yes, I remember how your team helped that rookie team. We made a couple trips to their pit because we helped them charge their batteries.

I think they'll do a lot better next year!

Brandon Holley 31-03-2008 09:07
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Team 125, though winning the National Championship in 2001 and the Boston Regional last year in 2007, WON ITS FIRST "judge given" award in the teams 11 year history.

The Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award for our "almost hitting the projector" catapult, as andy grady might put it.

T3_1565 31-03-2008 10:05
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1565 won its first awards ever!! Two of them for the same thing.

In Waterloo we won the creativity award for our linkage drive system, and were semifinalists (losing to 1114, 2056 and 1680). In Toronto, we won the Innovation In Control Award, also for our linkage drive system, and were also semifinalist (losing to 1114, 2056, and 2166.....again)

We are really proud, as this is the first year that we won awards or got to eliminations!!!!!! (well 2005 we were the 8th alliance captian in Waterloo... by a huge fluke...)

copperhead47 31-03-2008 13:31
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look, this isnt designed as an "in your face" post. i was HOPING that this would INSPIRE teams and to let them see whats out there. I apologize if you are offended or you took this post the wrong way. but i meant no disrespect and i thought rookies might wanna see what kind of success is out there. also i figured it would be a good conversation starter, but i guess not

Leav 31-03-2008 14:45
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Originally Posted by copperhead47 (Post 727779)
look, this isnt designed as an "in your face" post. i was HOPING that this would INSPIRE teams and to let them see whats out there. I apologize if you are offended or you took this post the wrong way. but i meant no disrespect and i thought rookies might wanna see what kind of success is out there. also i figured it would be a good conversation starter, but i guess not

Well I guess I just read it wrong.... sorry! :]

-Leav

smurfgirl 31-03-2008 15:20
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Originally Posted by copperhead47 (Post 727779)
look, this isnt designed as an "in your face" post. i was HOPING that this would INSPIRE teams and to let them see whats out there. I apologize if you are offended or you took this post the wrong way. but i meant no disrespect and i thought rookies might wanna see what kind of success is out there. also i figured it would be a good conversation starter, but i guess not
I think that most people are thinking along the lines of your intentions- I've seen a lot of inspiring stories, and places where conversation is bound to begin. Be patient, it's coming.

Laaba 80 31-03-2008 22:00
Re: bragging rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Originally Posted by copperhead47 (Post 727779)
look, this isnt designed as an "in your face" post. i was HOPING that this would INSPIRE teams and to let them see whats out there. I apologize if you are offended or you took this post the wrong way. but i meant no disrespect and i thought rookies might wanna see what kind of success is out there. also i figured it would be a good conversation starter, but i guess not
I understand where you are coming from and I really like this post, however you may want to be a little more careful when selecting a title. If someone is just looking at titles and they see bragging rights!!!!!!!! they might not get the message you are trying to send.
Joey

smurfgirl 31-03-2008 22:09
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Originally Posted by Laaba 80 (Post 728147)
I understand where you are coming from and I really like this post, however you may want to be a little more careful when selecting a title. If someone is just looking at titles and they see bragging rights!!!!!!!! they might not get the message you are trying to send.
Joey
I actually only opened the thread because I was curious what merited so many exclamation points. (-;

web_master_dpep 31-03-2008 22:20
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Originally Posted by Leav (Post 727185)
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?

THat is true. I was at a regional and walked around the pits for alittle bit. I saw teams working non stop because they had a small team. did great. but didnt make it to finals. got no reward. but in my oponion they were the hardest working team there. they got nothing for what they did.


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