[BumblingBuilder]

Despite 2016 being the least successful year in our team's history, one of my favorite team moments was choosing 4239 to be in our alliance at North Star this year. Working with them to make the "pew pew" blocker was one of my fondest moments participating in FIRST thus far. For a little context, we had a really rough time at North Star. Our problems escalated to the point that we had to replace our gearboxes (which were not easily accessible at all. One of the many design flaws this year). We were scambling to get the bot to even resemble competition ready on at the beginning day 2 (and we played the first match). Contrasting all of our problems throughout the entire competition was our creating of the blocking structure out of random parts we had in our pit, and writing and drawing on it.

Not only was just building the structure fun and one of the few moments of joy during North Star, it was a great moment of team bonding. After we lost in the tiebreaker in quaterfinals, we had a lot of people on our team sign it, and we gave it to 4239 to put in their shop to remember.