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Originally Posted by thefro526
... and do we really need to purple anodize our whole robot. These are the questions we must ask of ourselves. ...
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The answer is
YES it MUST be PURPLE. And our hair too! It's about selling an image to our sponsors. The leader firmly believed it our rookie season and after seeing its power last season I'm all for it, even though I'm usually not the kind of person that jumps through hoops like that. Go figure we won 2006 Rookie All-Stars in Atlanta.
Imagery is an award at the competitions, but it's often not ramped up like the others. If you don't know how to sell your robotics program to the community (eventually earning you a budget), perhaps you could start by coming up with some creative ways via imagery. Even though we engineers believe 42 is the answer to life and ignore that thing called "psychology", without someone to do all of these non-engineering things it would be nearly impossible to do our engineering things. Some of us simply lack the sociological programming (like me) to be able to really convince others our endeavors are needed ... well, maybe it's just that some people are better than others at it. If you're already doing your best each year, then keep at it.
Take as an example Einstein in his early years -- whacky hair, probably talked 95 miles/minute. How do you think he got people to even take a look at his first papers on theory? He probably used the 10-ft elevator on his 2007 FRC robot to get high school football film at angles the news crews only wished they could get.
you can't possibly think I meant for you to take that last sentence literally...though at first glance it doesn't seem like a bad idea