Oh, there are so many. A few of the most memorable:
-The time our robot caught on fire but won the regional anyway (2006 at Silicon Valley)
-The time we beat the Cheesy Poofs at Silicon Valley (2007)
-When our driver got into hockey skates and was chased around the build room (2007, and our build room is full of drafting tables and sharp edges)
-The time that only a few of us where left in the room and began to balance the leftover pieces of wood from building the half-a-rack on our heads and try to blow each others' off (I think it may actually have been later that night, after 9:30pm or something. Our build sessions are supposed to end at 9:00om on school nights.
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-The time three of us (as 2006 freshmen Solidworkers) began to label each new hopper design as "For the Love of God Don't Keep Changing the Design 1, For the Love of God Don't Keep Changing the Design 2, For the Love of God Don't Keep Changing the Design 3," etc...
- And don't forget the time that we hooked up three batteries to an aluminum pole and short-circuited the whole thing to generate sparks (2007, I think), whence came this quote, somewhere along the lines of "And thank you to Nick Felt, who risked death by electrocution so we could all [see sparks]."
I don't remember the exact order of any of these; they're all mixed up in a whirlwind of fun, sleep deprivation and excitement. I look forward to many more memories this year!
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