
18-03-2015, 09:19
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AKA: Thomas (just give me a crabcake)McCubbin
 FRC #0686 (Bovine Intervention/Jagbots)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Rookie Year: 2005
Location: Mt.Airy Md.
Posts: 54
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Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game
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Originally Posted by SousVide
I tell them it's kinda like a bunch of other non-contact competitive sports while waxing philosophy... golf, long jump, gymnastics, pole-vaulting, ring toss, javelin throw... You are trying to perform from a rehearsed routine and trying to achieve perfection... You are competing with yourself - it's like life, etc. etc.
I've said this same in other threads. This year is a tough sell for my sponsors and parents. The students get it, they build the robot, they have a competition to get ready for. They are ready to celebrate Robotics and Science and Engineering and GP with all of the other teams. It will be fun. But I also have to be able to sell it to their parents - so that they don't yank the students and put them into something else. I have to be able to sell it to my sponsors - most of these guys/gals get sports easy - I can sell them Frisbee, Basketball, Soccer, Nascar.
GDC has a tough job to do and they get beat up for it - it's a thankless job that is sometimes under-appreciated. And yes, it's my job to sell my team and to get "mo money" so that the team can continue to build robots, build leaders. I feel like I'm apologizing or just plain making excuses this year.
Look, it's a hard hill to climb to get people to understand FIRST - every single year. Some years, it's easier. I can just yell "Basketball" and eyes will light up rightaway.
It just feels like a bigger hill to climb this year.
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When someone at GDC stays up to 3am during 2010 "Breakout". Comes up with a math problem that was 8 mm long to determine how long it should take, to return, the soccer ball to the field; algorithm. We the simple people just said 11 seconds. The drawings for making the pyramid did not make sense to my engineer teacher or his carpenter son, 2013 game. The static bowl game in 2009, that I got shock a lot doing field reset. The GDC should be big to. To take a few lumps. Thomas (just give me a crabcake) McCubbin
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