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Join Date: Jan 2005
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Gulfport, MS
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Re: Post-Build Projects

Last year on the bus ride home from the Championship Event in Atlanta, I asked out coach/teacher "What do we do now?" You see, I had caught this thing we now call "Fusion Fever" and knew I would be needing a robotics fix to keep me going until the 2005 season. Well, he told me that he really wanted some way to shoot t-shirts during football games and other places where we could show off our robot and bring some attention to Team Fusion. My son (who is a Senior member of the team) and I built a pneumatic t-shirt shooter and reprogrammed the robot to work it. With a little help wiring it up from one of our other engineers, we we able to cause more excitement at the games than our 11-1 football team did. I'm not sure what kind of project Mr. Fava has in mind after the Championships this year, but I'm pretty sure it will be exciting!

Go over to www.teamfusion364.org, click on 'videos' and download one of the greeting card videos to see the shooter in action.
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