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Originally Posted by Ljohn2040
This was my first year with FIRST and I can say that I am foolishly looking forward to the next 6 weeks...
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Welcome to FIRST, and congratulations! It appears you are hooked.
I'm going to guess you meant to say you're looking forward to the 2009 FRC build season?
Your team built a solid scoring machine for 2008 -- for those at other regionals I would describe it as a pallet-loader / placekicker. Very reliable and effective hurdler. I enjoyed inspecting your robot at Boilermaker, and was thrilled when our teams were selected to join the same alliance for the eliminations. Thank you, 2368!
About that one-in-a-million shot: I'm hoping that TBA will get Boilermaker video soon so others can see it. Watching the blue ball sail up, knock away the red bonus, and then settle onto the overpass as the buzzer sounded -- well, that was a moment to look back on for quite a while. Of course, we planned it just that way!
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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)