2007 was our best robot so far. At both of our regionals (St. Louis and Boilermaker) we seeded well enough to be or become an alliance captain, then accepted an invitation from a higher-seeded A.C. Our scoring was the best we've achieved so far, and our reliability was excellent -- only one relatively minor breakdown, easily fixed. Twice a regional semifinalist. We've made it that far before, but this year we felt like we contributed more to our alliances' wins. Now that we've started to taste success on the field, we will be hungry for more of it next year.
And our 2007 team performance was even better, yielding the second regional CA in our six-year history.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)