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Not me, but at a promo....

Posted by Jessica Boucher at 2/3/2001 10:17 AM EST


Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.


In Reply to: how about shop accidents...
Posted by Ken Leung on 2/3/2001 5:30 AM EST:



Our first year, our first promo. It was at Judson Elementary, and it was really the first time we were using the 99 bot after the competition.

Now, if anyone remembers our last match at 99...we were on an angle on the puck, our scissor mechanism went up, up, up, and then toppled over, dumping the floppies on the human player.

Thus, they fixed it at nats, but still, we hadn't really used it since.

So, at the promo...it went up, up, up...and got stuck. So, thats how the promo ended, with the scissors in the air and my co-captain Rich running around for tools. The kids left, and we spent an hour and a half fixing it. (By the way, in this hour and a half the kids left, and then returned to the gym to get in their bus lines to go home, with the robot still in the center of the gym, trying to be fixed.)

So, Rich is fiddling with the threading of the scissors, and our conversation went like this:
"Rich, you're bleeding"
"No I'm not"
"Yes you are. Stop working and look at yourself"
"Ok.....gah!"

The wire had sliced his hands and there was now blood all over where he was working on the bot and on his FIRST Nationals shirt. It wasnt a deep cut, but it was one of those that bled all over.

So, thats my team's war story of 99....next time, I'll tell the 00 war story, where John cut his finger open.

-Jessica B, #237



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