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Unread 20-02-2002, 22:06
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I will comment on this.

I'm not sure where out team falls into the grand spectrum of money things.

I know our kids individually fund raise 250 dollars each. I know we fund raise thru the team over 7 or 8 thousands dollars ontop of that. (Via car washes, Candy Sales, sponsered dances, pizza nights. First is a Year round program for us)

Our students have always had a large contribution of our bot design.

Most of our grabber (Watch for it, it's amazing) was milled and machined by one of our female student team members. The design was worked out on paper by 4 or 5 students and one engineer.

Our drive train was designed by an alumni member (non engineering student).

I'm a phone and data network adminsitrator, and I even came up with the obvious answer to a design problem that stumped us for a few hours.

And this is only this years robot. Our team (Team #88 TJ²) has always been one of the more well known teams, always doing well. (Ok, so last year we stunk, but the other 6 years we've always finished in the top 5, even had Highest seed in Florida once)
We never had expensive robots. We just had good idea's. We've won awards for pickup designs.

I liken it to Delphi. Our team and theres have always had huge mutual respect for each other. We consider them a real "Class Act". The've never had really "expensive" designs, just really innovative idea's that work well. Crab drive (I'm surprised they haven't trademarked that name) , the pickup mechanism from 2 years ago, stuff like that.

As for the comment at the beginning that how is it fair for teams that have worked out tranmissions in advance, I would like to say ..... Malarky!!!

The Chipawah's are new this year. Yet eveyone that has an elaborate transmission is using them.

We've got a three speed transmission this year, and we 've always been direct drive in the past. Yet we've never seen a Chipawah before in our lives.

Well, this message got longer than I thought, but that makes it fit into this thread, which has mostly all long messages.
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