The Mobius, WFA and WFFA site

[Andy Baker]

All,

The WFA group have put together a website named "The Mobius". It is mostly complete, and could be especially useful to recognize this year's WFFA winners. Also, it has pages for all WFFA and WFA winners. There are also a page each for Dr. William Murphy, founder of the WFA award, and of course Dr. Woodie Flowers. Hopefully, we can bring light to these two wonderful gentlemen. If anyone going to the South Florida Regional has a chance to talk to Dr. Murphy at that event, it would be a great experience.

Please, please, please find these WFA and WFFA winners at your events and give them the recognition and appreciation they deserve.

Also, please check the site out and respond with what you think. If you find edits are needed, feel free to PM me. It's just a wordpress site, and not very fancy. But, it is a start of something that we can build upon.

Sincerely,
Andy Baker

[Akash Rastogi]

Great site! I've always wanted to see this information organized in one place. Thanks to the WFA winners for putting it together.

[Taylor]

That site is superb. I would also like to see bios on the WFFAs if possible, or perhaps the teams' submission essays where available.

I noticed the listing shows the WFFAs' current teams - nice touch.

I'm sure this was very labor-intensive. Thanks for putting it all together.

[EricLeifermann]

Not to be a stickler but(as an alumnus of Michigan Technological University) shouldn't the school be Michigan Technological University and not Michigan Technical University for Ken and Kyle, unless I am mistaken and there is a Michigan Technical University?

Other than that this site is very cool, hope to see my name on it someday.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Not to be a stickler but(as an alumnus of Michigan Technological University) shouldn't the school be Michigan Technological University and not Michigan Technical University for Ken and Kyle, unless I am mistaken and there is a Michigan Technical University?

Oops! Got it right now, thanks!

Andy

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Oops! Got it right now, thanks!

Andy

No problem, but you only fixed Kyle's profile it still says Technical in Ken's.

Thanks for all the hard work you and the other WFA's have put in to this!

[JaneYoung]

I'd love to see the reasoning and story of the design behind the trophy, itself. Or, did I overlook it?

Thank you so much for creating this website! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Jane

[Peter Matteson]

Arrgh!

Wordpress sites are blocked from my office. I'll have to actually log on at home to see this.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I'd love to see the reasoning and story of the design behind the trophy, itself. Or, did I overlook it?

Thank you so much for creating this website! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Jane

I also would like to know who makes them, and how they are made. Who is the designated ball bearing popper-inner?

[Mark McLeod]

Andy's design explanation
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...29&postcount=9

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

I also would like to know who makes them, and how they are made. Who is the designated ball bearing popper-inner?

All I know is that they aren't cheap. The year I won, my kids had mine on display in the pit at Lone Star, when it fell and slightly broke. It's fixed now and you can't see the crack at the back of the base unless you're handling it, so I don't need your sympathy, honest. Anyways, I'm not always above taking advantage of having a mother that's an RD, so I asked her if she could check with FRC HQ for the cost of replacing the mobius part. It's not four figures, but it's a significant multiple of three. So I've decided that I'd rather keep my money and the story, heh.

[Libby K]

What a great idea. I am so glad for this - we need to celebrate these winners as much as possible. Thank you for putting this together.

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I'd love to see the reasoning and story of the design behind the trophy, itself. Or, did I overlook it?

Thank you so much for creating this website! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Jane

There is some description of it in a "25 Years of DEKA" publication (that currently exists at Dean's house / DEKA / is given to invited guests of Dean's), as one of the DEKA 'christmas gifts' (a geeky-cool present secretly designed and built by DEKA engineers each year for Dean) was a mobius similar to the WFA trophy and is featured in the book. I will try and see if I can get a copy that snippet and send it to Andy so that it can go up on the site.

[Katie_UPS]

I created a quick code that sorts through the data (allowing me to finally get WF stats!)

With this data (not taking into account for team switches), the most WFFA(+WFA) winners any team has is 3.

The teams with 3 WFFA winners are as follows:

103
116
155
341
357
469
612
987
1114
1538
1574
1675

This does not include teams with a WFA (which does not beat the 3 mentor record).

If you include the WFA, these teams are added to the list:
111
131
188
234
365
812

Isn't data fun? If anyone wants any more numbers, let me know.

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

Isn't data fun? If anyone wants any more numbers, let me know.

Ha, I just did the same analysis, to find out it was already done. I didn't use a code data sorter, just a microsoft excel pivot table.

Awesome site, I'll be sure to take the time to meet Dr. Murphy and thank him for his many contributions to society.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

Awesome site, I'll be sure to take the time to meet Dr. Murphy and thank him for his many contributions to society.

Take along some people that are new to FRC/FIRST and introduce them to him, too. He would love that.

Jane