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Unread 09-02-2007, 15:50
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Re: Rookie Realization

I'm a senior at the Illinois Math and Science Academy (a boarding school), and I got our team involved in FIRST this year. Unfortunately, there are only 9 of us here to make the whole robot, crate, controller, program, etc, and no one really knows what they're doing. We have no mentor, and our closest team is Wildstang, which is located an hour away. To make matters worse, we are not allowed cars on campus, so anything we need from places like Home Depot have to be acquired when we can find an adult to drive us there (which never seems to happen when we need it to). Plus, we don't have access to a lab except for 3 days/week for a couple of hours, so we have been using hand drills and a saws all for all of our parts.

We work every school day from 4:30-10pm and weekends and Wednesdays (we don't have school on Wednesdays) from 10am-10pm, but our progress hasn't been great. All we have is a chassis, electronics board, part of the ramps, and the arm (which is not yet mounted to the base).

When we got into this thing, we didn't think it'd take so much work, but I have no complaints because we've had so much fun and learned more than any class could have taught us. Making it to the Championship will just be icing on the cake because the way I see it, we've already won.

Good luck to you other rookies and veterans alike!
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