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FRC #0865 (Warp 7)
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Rookie Year: 2012
Location: Canada
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Re: 2015 Lessons Learned: Your Team

Our team had some organization issues and we didn't take advantage of our time as much as we should have. This year we were able to stay much later than ever before and yet we kept getting distracted and tired after hosting multiple rookie seminars and demos. We got our robot mostly working for our first regional but there were some flaws such as the bellypan weighing more than it should have, not having a stabilizer built in time, and some of the new members lacking experience from not always coming to seminars.

By the time of our second regional, we had gotten a stabilizer working but it still had some issues which we could've fixed earlier but it was our first time working with sheet metal. At Windsor, we still hadn't fixed our stabilizer until the playoffs but it was too late since it had bent during the match knocking over the stack that could've potentially got us into the semi-finals.

All I've got to say is that our season was rough. We were able to expand and improve on a lot since last season. Many new members joined our team, we submitted Chairman's for the first time, we built an awesome offensive robot when we usually build defensive robots and we got our first Innovation in Control award. Next season, we're going to keep on working on our time management, keeping our new members up to speed with the rules and seminars, working on improving our Chairman's submission and continue learning.
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