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Re: How Los Pollos Locos Makes Dinner

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Originally Posted by Ninja_Bait View Post
Does Los Pollos know something about this year's game that we don't? (Rube Goldberg game, anyone? Explains the massive amounts of field pallets Bill reported.)

Or is OK Go replacing Will.i.am as the musical face of FIRST?
We on 2815 know neither. What we do know is that completing a full run of a Rube Goldberg machine is an exercise in patience that proved eerily reminiscent of our Friday at Peachtree this year. But the way the team developed processes and checks (leaving gaps in the dominos until everyone's clear, fine-tuning the finger that pokes the button, adjusting the catapult's direction and placement, flipping the toy car over when it's not armed...) was a nice parallel to what a team in FRC has to do in order to be successful.

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2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
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