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Ken Delaney 357 Ken Delaney 357 is offline
FTC #101(Radnor Robotics)
FRC #0357 (Royal Assault)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Rookie Year: 2000
Location: Drexel Hill, PA
Posts: 61
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Re: 2005 Regional AVA Winners

Royal Assault Team 357 won the AVA at the Pittsburgh Regional. The title is EDUCATION FIRST: First enhances education. One the great features of the animation is the original rap the students wrote and performed as the music for the animation. http://eugene.mikexstudios.com/anima...animation2005/

Here is a copy of the lyrics. “FIRST Rap” Lyrics

Listen up dude it was back in ‘92(1)
When I stepped out of the ‘hood' and Kamen started his crew.
Now in ‘05 robotics is owning our lives.
Six weeks later, now we’re going full drive

For inspiring and recognizing science and technology.
Listen up Holmes, or you’ll miss the terminology:
Dynamics, kinematics, electricity,
Work, force, torque, and gear theory.

I learned to program in my school curriculum:
Loops, variables, functions, and algorithms.
My robot lives with code.
I wrote it all,
Loaded the file, pressed compile,
And watched it fall.

Chemical reactions aiding the mind
To take learned actions and apply them to time.
Carbon tetrahedrals we cannot shun;
They’re the basis of life in everyone.

It’s not just the triangle, circle, and square(4)
‘Cause through its meaning, mighty things we dare(5).

1 1992 – the year of FIRST’s inception
4 Refers to the singular FIRST logo
5 “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt