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What was your role each year on your team?
Title is self explanatory. I'm curious to see the paths of other members on their respective teams throughout the years, as well as why you joined initially, how you feel now after having been part of a FIRST team, and your future plans for involvement. (Also, for consistency, please try use a format roughly similar to what I have.)
I joined The Robo-Sharks as a high school sophomore after a couple of my engineering classmates joined the team, and my engineering teacher suggested I join. The previous year as a freshman, I got to see bits and pieces of the robot from the previous year during class, but I was shy and still not sure about a future as an engineer. 2007- I took up recording and archiving tons of footage, and was pretty much a cameraman/photographer the entire season and never really touched the robot. 2008- Started CAD/CAM work and made several parts for our robot. During a driving test to find good drivers I also did pretty well, and was a driver that season. 2009- Was the team leader along with another member (we split the work evenly), and still did quite a bit of CAD/CAM work. 2010- Having graduated high school and not being able to commit %100 of my time to the team, I classify myself as a mentor. Looking back, I can't imagine not having been part of something that was so incredible and beneficial for me. I think high school would've been a boring blur otherwise. Realistically, I'll be involved with my team for as long as I can until I'm too far away to feasibly help them directly. When the day comes that I no can no longer directly help my team, I see myself volunteering at an event or helping out another team. In one way or another, I'll be involved with FIRST for life. |
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2008 offseason- Was roped into helping with the Website for the upcoming 2009 season, and dragged to a few events in the summer...as soon as school rolled around, I dedicated any available free time to robotics. It was my 3rd year on my school's baseball team.
2009 - In charge of the website for the whole season, as well as human player at 3 of the 5 events we attended (including IRI and the Fall Classic). I also graduated to Varsity on my baseball team this year, and went to my first Prom with a girl on the team ;) 2010 - I quit the baseball team after 11 years of playing, marking my first year in recent memory without it. I moved to a leadership position, heading up our Scouting and Game Strategy department. Still headed up the website. Played a large role in the conceptual design, strategic design, and fabrication of our 2010 robot, Daisy Bell. 2011+ - I plan on mentoring team 1538 at any given opportunity, returning to do as much work as feasible, or mentoring a team near my college (*Fingers crossed for Stanford, I find out next week!*). |
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I joined Warrior Robotics as a sophomore, only after one of my classmates came up to me one day and asked if I wanted to do the website for the robotics team (This was when the team was only just getting started, and when my only applicable experience in web design was a less-than-great graphics program and enough HTML experience to get by well). I agreed. Of course, at that time I had NO idea what the robotics team was, nor any clue about FIRST.
2008 - Webmaster (not all that great of a job), team paparazzi (I had just gotten my digital camera, and so I took pictures of EVERYTHING that went on). 2009 - Webmaster again, but now I was slightly more involved with the robot design, but being a junior under the shadow of some of the smartest seniors I've known, most of my potential contributions were shot down. 2010 - Webmaster, nearly the most robot-design-involved member of the team, rules/manual guru, fundraiser marketing leader, and finally, team driver and Co-Captain. As a senior, I think I will be a little sad to leave my high-school team behind, although I know I will stay in touch with the younger team members and our coach. Luckily, there is the "GO FIRST" student organization at the University of Minnesota, and I plan to join up and help out with the metropolitan FIRST teams with whatever I can. I don't think I'll ever be able to forget or ignore the kind of impact FIRST has had on me. :) |
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2004 - Animation/Scouting
2005 - Electrical/Animation/Scouting (Driver and Drive Coach for a match at IRI) 2006 - Electrical/Programming/Scouting/Judges 2007 - Electrical/Programming/Judges --Graduated-- 2008 - Mentor - Electrical/Programming/Animation 2009 - Mentor - Electrical/Programming/Animation/College Rep 2010 - Mentor - Electrical/Programming/Mechanical/Strategy/Rules/College Rep (For 2 different teams) I've been doing this a while... |
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FLL 2003-2006
2007- joined in the fall and did various stuff before kickoff. 2008- mechanical, mainly the drivebase. scout at tournaments and drove at an off-season tournament. 2009-mechanical, drivebase again :), and helped out with controls team. Pit crew at competitions and drove at several off-seasons. 2010- mechanical, drivebase again :p , and helped out controls team, field assembly, and any other team who needed help but mostly the controls team. Now that I am graduating I plan to volunteer at events and mentor a team. I don't think I'll stay with 1519 (45 minutes away+traffic) as that might interfere with college and work schedule, but will look to help a more local team. |
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My dad is the 'official robotics teacher' at our school.....ever since our team started in 2002, our family has been peripherally influenced by robotics.
In 2008, about a week before ship date, he randomly asked if I wanted to come to the regional as a scout. I believe I made the 5th person on the team that year.....we have a really small school.... I'd never been mechanically inclined in the least, but I do love to organize/talk to people.....I got hooked on FIRST that year. Being the sole scout on the team was insane.... In 2009 I was scouting captain, really was only involved at competition though. I somehow kept notes on all the teams: no laptop that year, all the data was in a big thick notebook--now I wonder how I did it. 2010: our team's best year in a long time. We got a NASA sustaining grant and I <i>was</i> the Chairman's Team...wrote the essays, filmed and edited the video, etc. We had a scouting Team this year, which was epic....two people but we had it under control, with the help of the laptop, and some really late nights.....ever notice how the (serious) scouts work all day, go back to the hotel room, have a team meeting, and then work most of the night to collate the data? ;) I do my best to dispel the idea that scouts are the people who can't/won't do anything else....my scouts were dedicated hardworking people....all two of us, hehe. Now I'm headed to Atlanta with another local team, as Team Videographer....amazing what a training in professional video camera use can do. I think one of the best parts of FIRST is that you don't >have< to be a mechanical genius to be able to help...I had my wrench-turning days, but the biggest way I helped was organization/facilitation/PR. Go FIRST! |
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Oh I like this thread :) How fun! Funny that my memory of awesome things like FIRST is so vivid, yet it can fail elsewhere!!
1996 (FRC176) - student leader, mechanical robot work (designer of the Magic Bean!), Team MVP 1997 (FRC176) - student leader, patron drive coordinator, mechanical & electrical robot work, pit crew, scouting lead, Team MVP 1998 (FRC176) - student leader, patron drive coordinator, machining, electrical & programming robot work, pit crew, student coach, Team MVP 1999 (FRC229) - Founder & Team Leader of 229, College Mentor, fundraising coordinator, robot design, electrical work, Drive Team Coach 2000 (FRC229) - College Mentor, Founder & Team Leader of 229, fundraising coordinator, robot design, electrical work, Drive Team Coach, Volunteer Inspector - Lead Inspections at Championships 2001 (FRC229) - College Mentor, electrical lead, Volunteer Inspector 2002 (FRC229) - participated preseason only 2003 - Volunteered at events 2004 (FRC1511) - Founded 1511 with Harris & PHS, worked to get school support, recruiting, team organization, coordinate other teams to do training. 2005 (FRC1511) - Team Leader, student leadership team, fundraising coordinator, program management, Initiated the Rochester Rally & RahChaCha Ruckus, FLL Volunteer 2006 (FRC1511) - Team Leader, student leadership team, fundraising coordinator, program management, Rally Leader, Ruckus Leader, Professional World of Business Series, chairmans, FRC Event Volunteer, FLL Judge, etc. 2007 (FRC1511) - Team Leader, student leadership team, fundraising coordinator, program management, Rally Leader, Ruckus Leader, chairmans, marketing, FLL/FVC Head Ref Clarkson Tournaments 2008 (FRC1511) - Team Leader, student leadership team, fundraising coordinator, program management, mentor coordination, Ruckus Leader, chairmans, website content, FLL/FVC Head Ref Clarkson Tournaments, Champ Conference Presenter 2009 (FRC1511) - Team Leader, student leadership team, fundraising coordinator, program management, Ruckus Committee, chairmans, FLL/FVC Head Ref Clarkson Tournaments, Champ Conference Presenter 2010 (FRC1511) - Distance mentor, website help, Champ Conference Presenter Something like that... :yikes: :ahh: :yikes: FIRST for Life.... catchy :) |
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2007/2008: As a freshmen, I was new not only to FIRST and what it had to offer, but to high school, the people I was seeing, and even fairly new to the town of Avon. As a result, I used this year more to introduce myself to the program. Because I had friends on the spirit team, I kind of stuck with that at first. I did try programming once, but that failed. I did scout, but I learned quick I wasn't much of a stand scouter because I had a habit of watching the entire field in general as opposed to my assigned robot. I always liked mechanical, but in the end I did most of my work with community stuff (which, for the sake of being honest, I could have done a lot more on. Freshmen forgiveness?)
2008/2009: Now that I had an idea of what I wanted going in, I became more focused. I did a lot more with mechanical, as well as talking to judges in the pits. I was our team's second driver in Hartford, as well as a Chairman's presenter. While I wasn't as heavily involved in the community stuff last year, I did Chairman's because I took it upon myself to be in charge of media and film. I did our Chairman's video, a video for our mentors, and a couple of other projects along the way. While I didn't drive in Atlanta, I became really focused on the strategic side of scouting, using the methods I picked up from listening to our coach talk in Atlanta. I also began to go back to my roots and talk more for our team. 2009/2010: My first year on management for my team. As Community Liaison, it's my job to handle things like grants, press releases, fundraisers, t-shirts, ordering food, Chairman's, etc. What I like about being on management is that you can be less hands on about things. You're now teaching others the things you did the past two years. At competitions, I still do strategy for my team. However, I didn't do the Chairman's video this year for our team (which is available on Youtube if people are interested) or write a good amount of the essays, rather I oversaw a lot of the process and just inserted input when necessary. 2010/2011: The final unknown chapter. I don't know, but I hope it's as awesome as these years. |
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I joined because I heard that it was fun, and because I liked the shirts. I ended up staying because I went to a work session, and realized that playing with nuts and bolts and metal was something that I liked to do.
2008 - I dove in headfirst, memorized the manual, got cookies for giving the rule number regarding duct tape usage, and was a member of the CAD team. Once most of the CAD work was finished, I began working with the build team on the robot, and I learned how to lathe. I also spent some time learning how to change content on the team website. During the competitions, I was the pit monkey who knew where EVERYTHING was, enjoyed talking to judges, and spent the elimination matches in Pittsburgh running batteries to and from the field, and riveting new treads on wheels when they popped off. 2009 - Pretty much the same as the year before, with the addition of the "Website group leader" title. I did a lot more CAD work, was the main operator for the lathe, and was still the go-to person with game manual/legality questions. 2010 - This year, my role on the team totally changed after being made a co-captain. Due to several personal reasons, I dropped the CAD team (I think I'm going back to them next year, I miss it >.<), but I sat in and contributed to a few of the Strategy team's meetings. I also had a lot of late nights spent working on team organization/managerial items. We overhauled the website this year, so I spent a lot of time in the computer lab, and whatever time wasn't spent in there was spent working in the shop doing whatever needed to be done. I also did an immense portion of our Chairman's submission. There were a lot of days when I simply could not get everything done without cloning myself. During Traverse City, I spent most of the competition as a mascot, dancing and cheering. During Detroit, I spent the entire competition in the pit, and wore the mascot capes during the elimination matches while cheering and dancing for other teams. This year, as a co-captain, I also helped lead meetings, serve as a liaison between the adults and students, order pizza on the days that we needed to eat in the shop, attempt to help smooth over arguments and qualm, and organize work sessions and the team schedule. 2011 - This is going to be a teaching year for me...passing down everything that I know to eager freshmen and sophomores. One thing that I cannot do: type concisely :P |
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Freshman: Told my friend she was a nerd and refused to join because I didnt want people to think I was a nerd to (still in that middle-school mindset)
Sophmore: Finally joined. Worked in anything management that needed editing and proofreading (honors english). I "Secretly" aspired to getting on the build team. Only attended nationals and was anti-scouting, but did what I had to. Junior: Under our new rotating build schedule, I worked on both management and build. I did both well, though focused most of my energy on build. Later in the build season I was officially placed on the pit-crew and attended all competitions, tweaking and fixing anything I could, which wasn't much because our robot worked fairly well. (I also decided I wanted to be an engineer this year) Senior: Was given a permanent position on the build team and pit crew (finally shaking those management shackles :P). I'm co-human player with another member of the build team, and am anxiously awaiting our next three competitions (mildly presumptious I know, but we're a very overconfident bunch) College: Might* take a break from FIRST Beyond: Will return as a mentor to my team, as long as I'm in the area. If not, I'll find a team nearby to mentor, whether they need more mentors or not. *unlikely |
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2002-2006 -- volunteering at the local regional and sometimes championships
2007 -- freshman, basically learned everything about mechanical, cut, drilled, tapped, did everything that they could think of. Was he 2nd driver at the regional. volunteered at champs 2008 -- Chief Engineer (in training) did soe of the CAD work, built a lot of the robot, did lots of the manufacturing, was the driver at the two regionals and champs 2009 -- Chief Engineer, did all of the CAD work, most of build, manufacture and so on. Just hung arond in the pits and fixed the robot at the regional. Also, volunteered at our local regional and champs 2010 -- Chief Engineer, did all of the CAD work, almost all of the build, wrote some essays for people, did a lot of the organizing, andposted the robot picture on CD (that might be a first...). I was driver at our first regional, will take up scouting for our second regional, and either drive or coach at champs. 2011+ volunteer, and then when i get outo f college and can be closer to a team, mentor FIRST is the best, and most fun life commitment ever. :) |
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2007 (2006 FVC season): Programmer, Scouting, PR - 3305 Conserve Steelers - First year in FIRST for any of us, I had about a week with the completed robot to code limiting functions for arm movement, plus a complete autonomous code. It worked eventually, and considering I had to completely unfold a double jointed arm, I say it wasn't bad.
2008 (2007 FTC season): Everything - 63 The Rebels - I founded the team and eventually had to rebuild and reprogram the entire robot in about an hour's time, alone. Then I won the event. :D Yeah, a lot of luck there... Joined 1714 soon after and built a new robot that could score rings. 2009: Strategist - 1714 More Robotics - Much less accomplished here than before. Finally participating on a large team meant I did less (fabricated a lot of the hopper as well), but at the events I had a bit more of an impact. The team managed to grab a blue banner with me behind the glass, so 1714's drivers are clearly pretty good at ignoring me. :) This year I kinda do a little of everything, but I'm primarily a tactician at competitions. I come up with plays and consult with the best drive coach in the world about them. |
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2001: Joined Team 341 in the Post-Season. Honestly can't remember what I did on the team at first - mostly odd jobs while I learned.
2002: Team webmaster and designed our multimedia CD-ROM (remember those?). Miscellaneous odd jobs, too. Had an interest in programming that began to blossom, especially in the following off-season. 2003: Senior year of high school. Head of programming and electrical subteams. Wrote our Chairman's Award essay (the first time we won at a Regional!). Human player. 2004: Freshman year at college (RIT). Only loosely involved with Team 341 during build/competition season. Worked briefly with local teams 73/340 mentored by RIT, but in general I took the year off to focus on my studies. Got more involved with 341 as a college mentor during the summer and offseason events. 2005: Began full-time mentoring of 341 from afar. Focused on electrical/programming aspects. I would make the round trip drive from Rochester to Ambler, PA (about 341 miles :) ) 5 times during build season, plus the actual competitions. 2006: This time, I planned ahead and got a co-op in the Philadelphia area during the winter so I could mentor full time. Still mostly an electrical/programming mentor, but I began expanding into overall machine design and strategy. 2007: As 2006, but this time from afar again. 4 more round trips, plus competitions. 2008: Even more involved as a mechanical/game strategy mentor (plus electrical...plus programming). I began doing CAD and physics simulations in Rochester and spending more than an hour a night communicating with the rest of the team down in Ambler. 5 round trips. 2009: After graduating college, I got a job in the Philadelphia area, so once again I could be there on a daily basis. I focused primarily on overall machine design mentorship (by this time one of our seniors was an expert with electronics and programming and he hardly needed me anymore!) 2010: Still there on a daily basis. I'm all over the map by now. .... And that is how a geeky kid who wanted to make a website became a professional engineer who now mentors in all aspects of design and construction. |
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Hmm... this is a fun thread. :D
2005-2006: This was my Freshman Year of High School. I got involved in Robotics early on and was the Captain of FVC #68. FVC was where I got my first true taste of competition. That year I was also an alternate Driver and one of the Mechanical Guys on 816. 2006-2007: I did FVC once again, this time as FVC #816 due to re-numbering, and I was still the Captain/Driver/Head Mechanical Guy/Sometimes Programmer. On FRC 816 I was a "Sometimes Programmer" (Did all of our Auto Routines and some Drive Code) a Mechanical/Design person, and then I was a Driver. (then demoted to Human Player because I was an underclassman) 2007-2008: This year we stopped FVC so that we wouldn't be pulling Human Resources from the FRC Program. That year I stepped up to become the lead Designer/Mechanical Person/Pseudo-Captain. This was the first year that 816 had a robot with a Winning Record, and also the first time 816 played in the Eliminations at the Championship. I was the Operator that year (Though, the Driver and I were fully capable of doing each others job but I chose to let him drive because it was his Senior year) 2008-2009: This was my Favorite year in FIRST, but also my most Difficult. I was the Lead Designer/Mechanical/Captain. I spent the first week of build designing our robot in CAD, which hadn't been done before or since, and then supervised the building of it. That year I was the Driver too. 2009-2010: Currently, I'm a College Freshman with a Full-Time job doing Design work. I'm a Mechanical/Strategy mentor for 816, in addition to being the Coach. |
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2008: Vex. Our team had an FTC team, which helped eased our way into FRC. That year was the last year for private reasons. After the FTC season, we helped out with whatever was needed within the FRC team.
2009: Integration and Testing. I was in charge of the I&T team. I and the team built the game pieces and and a trailer. After that, I trained the human players to shoot baskets into the trailer behind the trailer, and found out which one was the best. 2010: CAD. Self-explanatory. I am also being trained to be the drive-team coach for future years. I was the human player in NJ, and then I was drive-team coach for VA. Atlanta situation is still being decided (aka, who is going to be the coach in ATL). Future: Still doing what I am doing in 2010. When I am in college, I'll be helping out another team in the area and/or coming back to 1676 to help out when I can. Once a pioneer, always a pioneer. :) |
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2007: Sophomore year; Webmaster, media team, mascot.
This was my first year. I just started late at this new school, and heard a morning announcement regarding a meeting for a robotics team. Interesting. I attended, viewed the prior year's animation video, got hooked ever since. 2008: Junior year; Webmaster, media team, mechanical team, drive team, mascot. At this point, I did more with the media than the actual robot, but I begin to work with the hand/power tools. Most of my regional time was taking photos and running around in the bearcat suit. 2009: Senior year; Webmaster, lead media. Volunteered at the Buckeye regional. Not much, really. I stood back that year. We had great seniors leading the programming and mechanical divisions, so I figured I'd have fun and do whatever after finishing the website. 2010: Mentor, webmaster, programmer and programming mentor, t-shirt designer, drive coach, fundraising, events planning/management, recruitment. My first non-student year, so I had a lot of free time. We had zero programmers this year. One of them graduated, the other (a senior this year) had work too often to help. The programmer role was sort of thrown onto my plate at the last minute (read: Kick-off). We also lost our robotics/metal/wood shop teacher due to budget cuts, and he managed some of the other roles listed here, so myself and our lead engineer (who is the school-appointed team leader) had to split a few of those roles. The sudden changes were a bit overwhelming, but we're pretty strong right now, especially with more school/district support now. We've been a relatively small team since I've been involved, so I've always had to pull multiple roles. It's really not as bad as it sounds, though. |
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2007-Scouting Lead
2008-Mechanical member 2009-Scouting/strategy 2010-Scouting/strategy 2011+ i plan on mentoring 2228 |
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2005- (Team 1568) Started the team with a couple other students. Was the only programmer on the team (taught myself to program during the season). Team Captain, and scout.
2006- (Team 1568) Team captain, Driver, Lead student programmer (had a programming mentor this year). Graduated High School 2007- (Team 1568) Programming mentor and Drive Coach. (Team 1493) Propulsion team mentor, designed two speed transmission that was built into the chassis wall. 2008- (Team 1493) Control Team Mentor, focused mainly on Autonomous, sensors and scripting code. (Team 1350) Helped out at beginning and end of season with Strategy/Design as well as Programming and Debugging. 2009- (Team 1665) Lead Programming mentor, also helped with wiring and control system design. (Team 1350) Helped out at beginning and end of season with Strategy/Design as well as Programming and Debugging. 2010- (Team 3280) Programming and Control Mentor. Also worked with both of the schools FTC teams. Over my three years working with teams around RPI I also spent a fair amount of time writing and debugging software for other teams in the area. I have also worked with FLL teams since 2006. |
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I actually started in FIRST back in 2000.
2000- FLL, builder/ programmer 2001- FLL, builder/ programmer 2002- FLL, builder 2003- FLL, builder/ Joined FRC 306 in the off season 2004- some robot work/ made lots of buttons/ but mainly spectator/ scouting 2005- built prototypes/ machinist/ scouting/ camera man 2006- pit crew/electrical/mechanical/machinist/ photographer/scouting/Graphic work/ did whatever i was told? helped FLL teams 2007- electrical/mechanical/machinist/CAD/ pit crew/ Drive Coach/ scouting/ talked to Judges/ Graphic work/ knew how everything on the machine worked and how to fix it/ helped FLL teams 2008-College help, went in and helped as much as i could 2009- year off went in once to see how things were going 2010- Helped with some mechanical and design issues/ spectator at events |
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2009: mechanical worker and scouting lackie, not much to say about that year.
2009 off-season: Took up job of Scouting coordinatior for my teams only off season event. Ran scouting at our off season and helped my team make it to the finals where sadly we lost by 1 moon rock. 2010 Official Scouting coordinator. Now my team's crate of scouting supplies lives with me, next to my computer. I completely re-vamped the scouting system my team had making it more efficient and more fun. With the help of a mentor who was a former team member and his brother (a freshman) we were able to successfully introduce a new form of scouting: video Scouting where we were able to record matches for scouting purposes. Thanks to my new system and the awesome scouting ability of my team we were able to make the semi's at our last event. In addition to all that i am the only non-senior driver on my team, currently back-up driver. |
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2005 - Field building
2006 - Newb programmer / electrical 2007 - Programmer / electrical 2008 - Head Programmer / electrical 2010 - Mentor, hands off :D |
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*2002-spectator, no involvment
*2003-spectator, still no involvment *2004-(FRC381) first year, scouting, strategy team *2005-(FRC381) second year with the team, scouting, strategy, design *2006-(FRC381) Third year, design, build, and website *2007-(FRC381) Fourth Year, scouting and website *2008-(FRC381) Fifth and Final year with 381, scouting leader, design, strategy *2009-spectator, more experience, went to every event in tri-state area *2010-(FRC2180) First year with 2180, leader of scouting, worked on website design, worked with build an design of robot 2011-(FRC2180) Hopefully leader of design, scouting, and building. :) *=before high school |
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2007 - Miscellaneous freshman, learning a bit of everything.
2008 - Second most knowledgeable at Inventor, also learning a bit of 3DS Max. It was around here when I stopped touching the robot. 2009 - Alternating between Inventor, Animation, and Strategy. 2010 - Animation Captain, doing Strategy planning in my spare time. And now I'm about to go off to college for Mechanical Engineering. Go figure. |
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2007: Gr 8 - joined newly formed FLL team at my public school. --> Programmer, a little bit of build.
2008: Gr 9 - joined FRC 781 --> little bit of everything. Mostly mechanical. Mentored my FLL team. 2009: Gr 10 - 781 --> Mechanical, did some driving at offseason demonstrations. Mentored my FLL team. 2010: Gr 11 - 781 --> Programming team. Unfortunately too busy to mentor FLL. 2011: Gr 12 - 781 --> this will be my last year of highschool. Hope to mentor FLL again. after that, I may mentor while at university if there are teams nearby |
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1997 - Team Mascot.
1998 - Team Mascot, Head Cheerleader, and Field Reset. 1999 - Cheerleader. 2000 - Cheerleader and Biggest Button Collector. 2001 - Scout, Button Collector, Cheerleader, and FLL. 2002 - Scout, Electronics, and Cheerleader. 2003 - Electronics, Manufacturing, Scout, and Cheerleader. 2004 - Manufacturing, Operator, PR, Scout, and of course Cheerleader. 2005 - Manufacturing, PR, Marketing, Scout, Video and picture crew, and Cheerleader. 2006 - PR, Marketing, Business Plan, Hall of Fame, Video and picture crew, and Cheerleader. 2007 - PR, Marketing, Business Plan, Hall of Fame, pit presentation crew, Coach (off season), Video and picture crew, and Cheerleader. 2008 - Team President, Head of PR, Marketing, Business Plan, Hall of Fame, pit presentation crew, Coach (off season), Video and picture crew, and Cheerleader. 2009 - Mentor and PR and Marketing. 2010 - Mentor, PR and Marketing, and Scouting. The only job I haven't done on the team is Animation. |
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2004/2005-FLL, I don't really remember that much... (The Inventioneers)
2005/2006-FLL, we only had 4 students, so we all did it all. (The Inventioneers) 2006/2007-FLL, Had lots of fun. I did it all, but our team really started outreach this year. (The Inventioneers) 2007/2008-FLL, Same thing... (The Inventioneers) -FRC, I was Safety Captain and helped with wiring. I didn't get a chance to do much programming as I was still busy with the 2007 FLL season. (Team 2342, Team Phoenix) 2008/2009-FLL, This was my final year as an FLL participant. At my last tournament I cried because I knew I was going to miss my FLL team SOOOOOO much when my family moved to Australia. (The Inventioneers) -FRC, I was the Safety Captain and in charge of Autonomous mode. I also helped with wiring. (Team 2342, Team Phoenix) 2009/2010-FLL, I moved into a mentor/judge role. I mentored 4+ FLL teams and judged at the New South Wales States, and Australian National FLL tournaments. I also talked at the NZ pilot FLL tournament and was a volunteer. -FRC, I was the Team Captain and helped in all areas of the team. I tried (with a little success) focusing on electrical, but I also helped with mechanical, programming, animation, buissness, communications, fundraising, travel, public speaking, t-shirts, and anything else that was needed!!! (Team 3132, Thunder Down Under) 2010/2011-FLL I hope to continue in a mentor/judge role, I don't think I could ever give FLL up. It started me on a path that has been amazing, and if I could give that to more students, I would be very happy. -FRC, I will be a participant, I imagine doing whatever needs to be done again. I hope to pass on my knowledge to the younger students we will have coming in so when I am done with FRC in 1-2 years there won't be a gap in knowledge. (Team 3132, Thunder Down Under) |
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2004 (Junior) (FRC 955) Chassis and Drive Team, Drive Coach
2005 (Senior) (FRC 955) Team Captain, Drive Coach --Graduated-- 2006 (FRC 955) Mechanical Mentor 2007 (FRC 955) Mechanical Mentor 2008 (FRC 955) Lead Mentor, Mechanical Mentor 2009 (FRC 955) Lead Mentor, Mechanical Mentor 2010 (FRC 955) Team Coach, Lead Mentor, Mechanical Mentor It just seems to keep adding up...:ahh: |
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In 2008 I started my first year at Francis Tuttle's Pre-Engineering Academy in Oklahoma. It was there first year trying a mentoring program in which they assign a returning student to a new student to show them around and give them any help they require throughout the year. My mentor turned out (By complete randomness) to be a fellow home-schooler. A week or so later he walked up to me and told me about a robotics team he was on. (It was a BEST team) I decided to join after a few meetings.
We won 1st place in the Robot Competition and 1st place in the BEST Award at OKC BEST. We then won 2nd place in FT Smith with our robot. While at Ft. Smith I was told about a team that some of the students from BEST do. It was called FIRST. I said sure I'll give it a try. Turned out to be the most fun I had ever had. Now during the time between our state and regional competition we wanted to try and put something fun in the pit. Because of this I was playing with a bunch of wiring. In doing so I caught the team captain's eye(Also the team captain on the FIRST team) 2009: Electrical Team Captain 2010: Team Captain and CAD guy 2011: No idea yet.... I'll be starting a new team though. |
Re: What was your role each year on your team?
2 years on the team.. Still fun haha
10th grade - 2009: Chassis Lead designer and machinist. Fabricated most of the plates and parts on El Toro XII and Inventorized our chassis from 2009. I was in the pit crew as well. 11th grade - 2010: Mechanical Lead and machinist. I was in charge of getting all things mechanical done on the robot, which I did not really succeed with, and teaching the rookies during our offseason trainings. Also did some volunteering at FLL events, Toys for Tots, and at Calgames (field reset) |
Re: What was your role each year on your team?
2007- Pit crew at IRI
2008- Lead Electical/Programming group, human (hybrid mode) player, IRI Field Coach 2009- Mentor, On and off when school allowed, helped with electrical/programming, IRI Field Coach 2010- Mentor, Programming/electrical, website help, other random things |
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Sales and Marketing
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Re: What was your role each year on your team?
2009- Scout, team's freshman pet
2010- Scoutmaster, machinist 2011-2012- Driver? |
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2007- I was an eighth grader when my dad co-started the team at Hammond High with Mrs. Gaydos. I was at most of the work nights on the weekends (The Midnight-Knights group). And I just helped out where I could. Being an eighth grader I couldn't do much.
2008- I joined the class and team as a freshman, doing little odd jobs while all the experienced members handled the advanced processes of working on the robot. The seniors helped mentor us lowly freshman whilst they worked. And I took a keen interest in the Website. I helped post links to pictures, type out walls of text and even ran and got coffee for my mentorious WebMaster as he so wanted me to call him...(It didn't happen. :D ) 2009- I took over as Webmaster, Muahaha! And we lost 3/4's of our team when the seniors graduated. But alas we strove to continue on in glee. I didn't do much on the robot that year, other than help with the wiring. 2010- I am still the Webmaster and am planning on staying in this position until I graduate or keel over. :) And this year, I joined up with some of the mechanical group guys and helped with the actual building of the robot. Together, once competition came around, we formed the FIRST NASCAR Pit Crew. We performed some of the fastest, most critical fixes in the history of the team at the Bayou and Lone Star Regionals. One time, we were in Que, and we noticed that one of our motor brackets was cracked(The weld of course.) So as to not risk a malfunction in the middle of the finals match, the Pit Crew went into overdrive and got the old bracket off and the new bracket on in less than 3 minutes, which gave us 3 extra minutes to relax while we waited for the time out to finish. :D |
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2006 - I was the battery man, in charge of charging and knowing which battery was to be used for each match.
2007 - I was the driver and semi battery guy. 2008 - I was once again the drive and Co-president along with my other co-driver. 2009 and on - I am now a mentor and hang around tohelp with what ever needs to be done. |
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I have wanted to join 818 for years. However I never had transportation to the meetings and thus was unable to do so. Luckily I was able to get in my senior year. I jumped in head first trying to force my self into anything I could.
I'd say that it is safe to say that I've done a lot as a FIRST Freshman! |
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2002 - Team 93: CAD/Manipulations design: Finally joined as a Junior. Easy to get overwhelmed at first, but ended up helping out modeling parts and designing our goal grabbing mechanism. Helped out with scouting at events/ laying out in the sun at nationals in Disney.
2003 - Team 93: Co-Team leader/ CAD leader/ Strategy guy. This is the year I learned unless you have lots of resources, make your robot just really good at one thing, not decent at many. Strategy/Scouting at events. Had the fun of being the robot cart pusher at nationals in Texas. 2004-2007 - Away at college, Michigan Tech. My brother was on Team 93 then and still followed and even went to some events. At college I participated in ChallengeX (a hybrid vehicle competition) Helped me get my full time job. 2008 - Team 818: getting used to a different team/ animations mentor. Scouting/Strategy mentor at events. 2009 until ??? - Team 818: Manipulations Mentor as well as Scouting/Strategy Mentor at events. |
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My friends, I have only known Kyle for this year and although we butt heads a lot I have learned a lot from him. His knowledge of manipulations is astounding. When it comes to scouting I swear I think he is psychic and on top of that I have learned a lot about strategy from him. Seriously though. He guessed which team would pick us and which pick we would be during the draft at Wayne state. It was amazing because the team that picked us hadn't said a word to us all competition! Thank you for an amazing year Kyle. I can't wait to work along side you next year! |
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My first year in FIRST I actually volunteered at the Mission to Mars FLL tournament I went from there and became part of 1714's pre-FRC FTC team in 2005 where I went to Atlanta and met team 1675 the Ultimate Protection Squad from Rufus King my soon to be high school.
2006- Worked on Animation, did odd jobs in the shop, helped design the website, and became a Co-Captain half way through the season. 2007- Continued as Co-Captain, started reaching out to the community, wrote Woodie Fowers, Wrote and presented Chairmans, Did media- Photos and video, Learned how to Weld, did odd jobs in the shop 2008- Co-Captain, Wrote and Presented Chairmans, Wrote Woodie Flowers, Worked on Marketing and Logistics, Did Media and Community Out reach 2009- Captain, Wrote and Presented Chairmans, Wrote Woodie Flowers, Worked on Marketing and Logistics, Did Media and Community Out reach 2010- Created the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Alumni Organization, Mentored Herobotics: Team 2500 as a Marketing mentor, Mentored Fighting Calculators: Team 2175 on Chairmans, Remote Mentored UPS: Team 1675, Volunteered at the Midwest and MN regionals. |
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2002: Observed the team and the competition because my brother was on the team
2003: Same as 02 2006: Freshmen year of high school. Did various menial tasks but ran bumper group by the end of the year. 2007: Overhauled strategy system with another team member (Jay Walker(thats his real name)) and ran the strategy team in partnership with him. 2008: Ran strategy team with Jay. Created my patented Blay-frame which stopped the bot from tipping over on several occasions during competition. Coached two matches at nationals 2009: Ran strategy team on my own. Built many parts of the conveyance system and the hopper. Drove the robot. 2010: Freshman year at Stony Brook, mentored from afar with the use of aim, email, and phones. Made trips every weekend starting Thursday night(no Friday classes ftw) and returned to school Sunday night. Had a lot of involvement in strategy, possibly more than last year because i did not drive the robot or coach. |
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2007- vex team(driver), build team, human player
2008- vex team(driver/coach), build team, co-operator 2009- vex team(coach), co-capitan/ head of build, co-operator 2010- student mentor, scouting |
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