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Re: Nightmare Repairs At Competition
My Junior year (2010, Breakaway) with (now defunct) 562, we had a rack and pinion system to load our shooter. The pinion was pushed into place via pneumatics, and when released it would fire. After a match, we came back to the pit to find that the rack had actually split in half! 
A quick run to the machine shop and it was welded like new. Quite literally, if we didn't have the rack we would have been outside of the frame (ever so barely) and we would have had to not participate in the match. It was quite scary for a student who spent most of his time running around in a bulldog suit.
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Team Resume
562 "S.P.A.R.K." - Student Programmer 2008-2011, Field Coach 2011
3623 "Terror Bots" - Technical Mentor, Field Coach 2012 - Present
Volunteer Resume:
BattleCry@WPI 12, 13, 15, 16 - Queuing
BattleCry@WPI 14 - Field Reset
Granite State District Event 2014 - Team Queueing
NEFIRST District Championships '14,'15,'16 - Team Queuing
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