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Not one 'bot was not worthy
Posted by Daniel, Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M Gunn Senior High School and NASA Ames.

Posted on 5/3/99 1:05 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: is FIRST ready for Prime Time? posted by Dan on 5/2/99 7:21 PM MST:



Personally I feel that ever robot I saw in Florida was worthy of prime time. For a high school project FIRST is pretty sophisticated stuff. Just think, while other high schools are building cardboard boats (not in the least a boring project), we have hundreds of kids working on ten foot tall ROBOTS. Mechanical Michael Jordan’s. And you say that's not worthy of prime time?

Besides, since when are students not good enough to build a 'ready for prime-time' robot? Students are capable of building machines to rival even the most engineer-built 'bots out there. Take G-Force for example. Two things on that ‘bot were done professionally. Little things. One was a bend in a sheet of aluminum that was too large to fit in our bender (just to put it into perspective). I give only this example ‘cuz I know our 'bot pretty well, but I'm sure there are quite a few others out there.

It's just a pet peeve of mine when people imply that students can’t do impressive stuff on their own. Sure there will be a few boxes with wheels out there, but the majority of robots you see in Florida are pretty $@#$@#$@#$@# impressive.


I was blown away this year.
-Daniel
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