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Unread 19-06-2003, 16:20
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On to my 16th year in FRC
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1. When we shoved 1046 off the top off the platform in the last 1.5 seconds of the last match of the LA regional
2. The 696 "Happy Dance" atop the ramp at Phoenix.
3. Shoving a "tote" under the bar and wathcing it explode.
4. Flipping both our opponents in our first qualifier in LA.
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Unread 22-06-2003, 00:39
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1. Making it to the QFs at Midwest Regional.
2. Blowing a motor, making us veer out of bounds in said Quarterfinal.
3. Yelling at our programmer countless times, when it turns out the wear of the treads affected our autonomous.
4. Learning that the team gets lucky when I am struck in the head.
5. Running into another team at every restaurant we went to at Midwest.
6. Running into a glass wall at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

That's all, really.
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Unread 22-06-2003, 23:17
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Ed Debevics in Chicago.....Twisted Blizzard Vs. Huskey Brigade

Rock N Roll Hall Of fame,,,Girl from Columbus School of Girls spits off of the top floor on to a security guard on bottom floor and then sprinting into an exhibit

Buckeye Regional..Having lunch with NASA officials

Buckeye Regional...Having really bad alliance partners...well i cant call them bad...but i can say they didn't work...5 out of 7 match's to be exact

Meeting Erin from 128, (b.t.Blitz) in boston while visiting neu, She was a great guide of the city and the college. too bad i am not going there for college....STUPID Tuition...who needs to pay for that..

Building Lego League competition tables and having one almost kill a mentor...sorry again mr.torick

Having 20 middle school kids on a lego league team when there is only supposed to be 10

being a student adviser and having to deal with everything that goes with the job

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Building the robot at Columbus State Community COllege when it was closed for a snow day

Being 129.9 pounds at Buckeye regional, then not passing at midwest

Being QF's at Midwest

Playing on the beach in Chicago in March!

Meeting Andy Baker at Midwest and having him comment on our tote cart.

Planning many community events!

Fourth of July Parade; 6 robot carousel float....mmmmmm, a 30ft tall first logo!

Meeting Erin (blits) in Boston to visit Northeastern, that girl rocks!
having pizza with erin in boston and DJ calls from Indiana and is driving like a mad man

Meeting Anne from OSU/Dublin Robotics, next year will rock!

NEVER GETTING TO RIDE A SEGWAY at Midwest!! ROAR!

HAHAHA...not seeing mark run into a glass wall!

IRI anyone?
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Unread 23-06-2003, 04:25
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Um why is everyone so proud of flipping other robots... I was kinda under the impression that that was bad and we shouldnt be proud of it, but maybe im thinking about FIRST and not Battlebots.

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Unread 23-06-2003, 09:23
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Um why is everyone so proud of flipping other robots... I was kinda under the impression that that was bad and we shouldnt be proud of it, but maybe im thinking about FIRST and not Battlebots.
You are correct. What happened to gracious profesionlism, we shouldn't proud of it. But then again it is kinda funny.
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Unread 23-06-2003, 10:01
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Amanda's List of Highlights for 2003

10. Obnoxiously blaring Nelly music throughout St. Louis in hopes of seeing him.

9. Earning the honorary 'Hair on Fire' award from the staff and volunteers at the St. Louis regional (long story).

8. I finally got to drive! (...or something like that...)

7. -This number specifically reserved for the number of drive trains we built in 3 days-

6. Seeing Westside Boiler Invasion #461 win the regional Chairman's Award in Chicago and Andy win the Woodie Flowers Award at nats.

5. Gerbil? What's a gerbil?

4. The prototype robot attacks everyone in autonomous mode, swinging around at ridiculous speeds, runs up a ramp, and promptly goes flying off... into a wall.

3. Almost getting thrown in the pool at our hotel (and I would have been, but I was miraculously saved).

2. The look on the kids' faces when we came out of a match both working and winning. They were so proud of themselves and proud of the work they had done.

1. The feeling of winning a match after everyone tells you that the team can't be done, that you'll never get it off the ground, and that it won't be successful.
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Unread 23-06-2003, 10:13
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>>The match in Canada during the elimination rounds in which our ally got flipped in the beginning of the match, and we ended up winning with both of our partners on the ramp at the end of the match.

>>5 min before our first qualification match of the day when we thought that I had lost the badge for the human okayer...

>>Carrying an ice box around the hotel in Canada

>>SEEING SPARKY AT THE CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL DDD

>>At the American Italian (LOL) restaraunt in Canada, some of us getting the waiter people to celebrate the birthdays of one of our drivers, Dana... and it wasn't his birthday

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Unread 23-06-2003, 12:52
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volunteering at BAE regionals

getting dean and woodie's autographs

my team surviving yet another year of being "inactive"

taking our 2000 and 2001 robots, and modifying both of them them to do the 2003 game (in only 2 weeks without sponsors, engineers, or money) so we could participate in a demo (at request of the team that is hosting the demo) on July 4th in merrimack

getting some of my friends who didn't have clue what FIRST is to join the team.
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Unread 24-06-2003, 18:48
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My memories of this season get into the 100's. I'll narrow it down to 10.

#1) Winning Great Lakes Regional with 302 and 226.
#2) Flipping on our sides in semifinals at great lakes, Then doing a spin to get ourselves back up. Pretty amazing.
#3) Getting yelled at for staying up too late cause I'm a driver.
#4) Playing 8 player Halo in our hotel room until our chaperons kicked us out.
#5) Screaming random things out at people with Josh while driving to places.
#6) Having the feeling of knowing that we could flip ourselves back up if we were tipped over.
#7) Doing #6 a tremendous # of times.
#8) Singing in the bathroom stalls with Josh
#9) Having a large portion of the team show up to my grad party.
#10) Having one of the best stackers out there.
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Unread 25-06-2003, 22:35
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1. Being the only engineer brave enough to ride along with the students on our 24 hour bus trip from Warren to Houston. Being insane enough to get back on the bus for the trip home. Experiencing the euphoria of stepping off the bus in Warren and realizing that I was still alive. Reflecting upon the experience and determining that it was one of the most fun times I've ever had as a FIRST mentor.

2. The surprise of learning that the judges in Pittsburgh gave our team a special award for volunteering en masse at that regional. Out of all the great things the team achieved this season, I was proudest of my teammates for their contributions at this event.

3. Celebrating with the team when we learned that we had won the Motorola Quality award in Pittsburgh, which qualified us to attend the Championship Event.

4. The overall Canadian Regional experience - #2 seed, semifinalist, GM Industrial Design award winner. As always, our Canadian hosts put on an outstanding event, and we had a great time.

5. Achieving the #7 seed in Curie (despite a curious technical difficulty), giving us the chance to pick alliance partners at the Championship Event for the first time ever.

6. Discovering a slew of robot performance issues in Cleveland (yes, most noticeably, a tipping tendency), working on a set of corrective actions over the next three days (including the construction of a wheelie bar), integrating those solutions on Thursday in Pittsburgh, and watching as we achieved our first #1 seed of 48's existence. Except for one more instance (where we were eventually righted by our partner), no more tipping occurred the rest of the season - sorry to disappoint you there, dddriveman!

7. Watching our custom circuit and autonomous mode programming perform as designed for the first time in Pittsburgh.

8. Resurrecting our 2002 robot cart Ol' Bessie (which I, possessing all the mechanical skills of an electrical engineer, helped build) from the grave at the last minute when our '03 cart wasn't completed in time. We ended up using that cart the entire season and she never let us down, even when we used her to pull a 9 ft tall pile o' tools, totes, and parts up the steep access ramp of the Astrodome.

9. Letting our robot drag all 6'3" 300 lbs of me across the carpet during early practices.

10. Being in the neighboring pit to observe the Technokats' exemplary behavior under pressure upon learning that their crate didn't show up in Pittsburgh.

Honorable Mentions:

Steve Warren's "Hair by 48"
Purchasing our first team trailer with our fundraising proceeds.
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Unread 26-06-2003, 03:13
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In no particular order

Attending my first kickoff with no sleep
Attending the Chatsworth (lack of a better word) sectional with no sleep
Joining Chief Delphi
Sitting inbetween seats in a 15 passanger van when our team magically grew to 30 people (noone knows why this happened)
Sitting at the top in Phoenix
Going to the hardrock cafe in Phoenix after 696 invited us.
Losing many times at Phoenix and then coming close to winning at LA on a suggestion I made during build but noone would listen to me (because I was a freshman)

There are more but I don't want to stay up all night posting them.
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