[BHOP]

Ill speak from experience, I drove 2 years for my team. Two years ago we won the championship, both years won our division, last year we won a regional, so I've been on the field a lot, under pressure. Like everyone else has said, keep your cool and have fun. Know your strategy, and communicate. Know your robot inside and out, that was one thing that being a driver allowed me to do. I learned everything about everything on our robot, and the whole system.

Now for some new things:
-Be nice to the refs, they are your friends
-Thank the volunteers, meet some new people
-Have a cool dance/motion thing to do when they call your team name(we hopped)
-Work out, because there are limited amounts of people allowed on field, chances are you'll be doing some heavy lifting of the robot
-I flew r/c airplanes, if you get a chance they help with depth perception and hand eye coordination.

One last recommendation...if you ever make it to einstein field, look behind you, and notice the awesome sight. There might be like 20,000+ people watching robots play a game, it's kind of funny, hopefully a sign of the times to come. Did I mention...have fun, not many people get the privilege of driving a robot.

BHOP