Re: 101 Things I Wish I'd Known Before My First FIRST Tournament
* When (and im saying when cause i know it will happen) youll stay for the night in your workshop testing and building the bot, make sure u got FOOD and COFFEE, you might actually suddenly notice u r starving to death...
*if the game item is a ball or something' u cant NOT play with it' just watch out hitting others precious stuff...u dont want any conflicts in your team ...
*DAve Lavery is massing with your head, but he must be taken seriously, evry word of his might be a lue that changes your machine...
*Be exposed to as many sides of FIRST as you can..if ur a programmer' u can be in the Chairman work part of your team in before the bot is ready, or before the team has any idea what it needs of you
*Remember' as friendly FIRST Competitions are, its still a game, and the other side wants to be a winner just as much as you do, adn just like you, they will do everything for it...
*Life is a game of chess' always look a few steps forward' and never be surprised, that the way of a true champ...
*Help others as much as u would like to recieve help from others..
*Girls are smarter then boys (and im a boy saying that).
* Never ever let a high school female student BUILD your robot, women are there to give orders to us, slaves...
*HAve your team organized well, many different parts like: Program team' Building, Webby, Public Relations, ANimation,. Each one of those must have a leader, and they all have to be organized together. A good FRC team is actually a small bussiness.
* People, no metter how uneducated they might be' will always find your machine intersesting, and will always ask questions u dont expext them (quote: "What on earth is that thing?"; "That's a robot?";"What's a robot?":"hm..erm...how do i anwer this question????"
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My FRC record: 10 Years,FTA (2008-9), 3 Teams(1947,2669,3211).3 RCA, 1 Championship EI(2016), 1 Divisional finalist (2016), 1 Regional winner.
Israeli 2016 Volunteer of the year.
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