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Originally Posted by Boltman
Congrats we know all to well the feeling.
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Thank you!
Yep we miss our ME's this season... in 2012 we had one ME student, Charles Wensel, and one Astro-E student, Parker Francis, both former student leaders on 148 Robowranglers. We did exceptionally well at Champs that year on Archimedes, our sophomore effort, and got a taste of what it can be like to have that level of talent/abilities/experience on your team. PLUS the bonus of getting to know Parker and Charles who are just excellent and good people.
We lost Charles after 2012, the commute on weekends from Lubbock, TX to San Antonio, TX was just too much. And we had Parker for 2013 commuting down from Austin on weekends and in 2014 he had to pull-back due to school commitments but was still involved part-time. This season Parker has transitioned to pursuing his Master's at Georgia Tech and is very part-time advising long-distance.
SO this year we learned to use the JVN calculator fully, which is a good thing... ;-)
But, having had a taste of what _could be_ when you have gifted ME's on your team is something I will try to re-capture sometime in the near-future but it's difficult to pull-off...
--Michael Blake
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