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Re: Thank You and Congrats to Teams 20, 2079, 195, and 1124!

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Originally Posted by kjolana1124 View Post
Wow. On behalf of my entire team, I can't thank you enough for writing this. Really. It means so much to all of us. Who knew that a little stuff guarding could end in such an amazing alliance and only one more reason for me to be excited about CT.
This is a bit of a side track, but...

Would you believe that this isn't the first time something like this has happened to me?

I'm one of the luckiest people in FIRST. When I was on my own FTC team, my robot failed inspection because I spliced some wires. Upon hearing this, I said "Yay!". This surprised the volunteer, I guess, and apparently the unusual reaction was enough for her to help me out throughout the event. Turns out, she was the team captain of FRC team 1714, and when I ended up winning the event, she got me the help I needed. All because I randomly made a comment near the beginning of the event.

Then at IRI last year my team's pits were put back to back with 2753's, whom had a double sided banner. Because of the resulting confusion, I ended up talking to and befriending Tyler throughout the event.

Akash made a thread about FRC teams at RPI and from there, 2791 contacted me about visiting them and then from there I became a college mentor. What would have happened had he not?

So I guess you're just the next person I've met through FRC by sheer chance that might change my life. Because I volunteered to sit outside for 45 minutes with my team's supplies while everyone else got food, I had a nice friendly chat with you before the event began, and continued to throughout the event. I've been in the right place at the right time so many times now, my FRC experience has been almost entirely defined by it. This is why I value gracious professionalism so much. If it weren't for this open attitude in FRC, I would be nothing. Now, people think I have the slightest idea that I know what I'm doing.
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College Mentor: 2791 (2010-2015)
...2015 TVR Motorola Quality, FLR GM Industrial Design
...2014 FLR Motorola Quality / SFs (with 341, 4930)
...2013 BAE Motorola Quality, WPI Regional #1 Seed / Delphi Excellence in Engineering / Finalists (with 20, 3182)
...2012 BAE Imagery / Finalists (with 1519, 885), CT Xerox Creativity / SFs (with 2168, 118)
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