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Re: A plea for a quieter pit area

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
And this is why as a community, we should work toward fundamental reform of the safety award (given that I don't think we'd ever see it's elimination altogether).
Interestingly enough, we've won the Safety award a handful of times over the last few years (At least 3 or 4 times since 2006) and we rarely ever shouted robot... Usually we emphasize other aspects of the award like proper training for various incidents (10 or so kids are trained in CPR, Battery Clean up, basic First Aid and that sort of stuff) and we always add some sort of lifting handles to our robot that get us some extra points with the judges.

From what I can remember, the "Safety Nuisances" - those teams who send kids around the pits carrying signs, or passing out safety flyers - rarely win the award...

(I wouldn't mind to see the award eliminated, then our Safety Captain might stop scolding me...)
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