bragging rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[copperhead47]

this thread is for any one who has success stories, won awards, or are record holders for the year 2008 (overdrive).
I would like to have people post from all over the country (or world for that matter) a simple post stating what awards, records or stories you have will suffice, any private messages you would like to add are welcome. oh- also state your team name and number, school name, and what have you. congratulations to all winners/record holders. I know this is a little pre-emptive so i would like to have the stories keep coming. ATL is still off in the distance but there are already teams that know they are going. 1647 (my team) went to the trenton regional and the PHL regional and we saw some very deserving winners there. so congratulations and good luck folks!! (rookie posts are encouraged- i love to hear inspiring rookie wins!!!)

[waialua359]

We have been very fortunate to have won 6 awards at VCU and the Hawaii regionals. The Chairman's was the icing on the cake.
We have also been fortunate to have added another finalist and/or regional winner to our team history.
Only in 2006, have we not made a finals match, considering for our first 5 years, we only did one regional per year.

2008 VCU Entrepreneurship Award
2008 VCU Website Award
2008 VCU Motorola Quality Award
2008 Hawai Entrepreneurship Award
2008 Hawaii Regional Finalist
2008 Hawaii Chairman's Award.

[seraphim33]

we won the rookie all-star award at glr and the team spirit award at the kettering pilot rookie competition

[BT987]

we were lucky enought to win the las vegs regional, chairmans, and are mentor got woody flowers

[DarkFlame145]

Won the Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award at FLR, for our reliable Hybrid mode and neat controls deck. Thanks to the design team and the student/robocoach and the mentor, that worked and tested the hybrid mode 4 weeks.

[Cow Bell Solo]

We fully completly changed our winch desing between our practice matches 1 and 2 and it worked even though having the two motors being attached with zipties but having one ziptie break right at the end of the long time practice match(5min) and then getting it bolted to the bot before our 3rd.

[Rick TYler]

Last year, we started a new community competition robotics club and had three mentors and five students. We built an FTC robot and went to the finals in the first Washington tournament. This year, with four students not returning to the team, we recruited 20 new students and four new mentors, and entered three teams in the Washington tournament. All three of our robots worked well, and any of them could have been in the finals of the event -- all did go to the semis and one to the finals. Team 417 was the #1 rated robot after qualifying, and Team 418 was #2.

For a bunch of rookies, they did amazingly well. I am so proud of them you can probably see me smiling right over the Internet.

[Viper37]

We lifted the entire field...

We also won Safety and Imagery.

[Leav]

dude I don't mean to rain on your parade but most teams do not win an award.

Doing an "in your face" thread with 14 exclamation points in the title isn't really GP.

FIRST isn't really about the awards. it's not even about the competition. it's about the road to the regional.

Awards exist to help create a sense of achievement and accomplishment - they exist so that we all have something to aspire to.

Good job though! 6 awards is pretty impressive!

-Leav

p.s.

Just think about the team who worked their butts off but didn't get any awards.... how does this thread make them feel?

[Laaba 80]

Originally Posted by Leav

dude I don't mean to rain on your parade but most teams do not win an award.

Doing an "in your face" thread with 14 exclamation points in the title isn't really GP.

FIRST isn't really about the awards. it's not even about the competition. it's about the road to the regional.

Awards exist to help create a sense of achievement and accomplishment - they exist so that we all have something to aspire to.

Good job though! 6 awards is pretty impressive!

-Leav

p.s.

I'd partially agree with this. If you look, copperhead didnt say his team won any awards. He is asking for stories of others success. You need to celebrate the success of others. In my opinion, one of the best ways to improve your team is by observing others. If Copperhead would have just bragged about his team only, it would be different. Also, he asks for stories. I'm sure if your team didnt win an award you still have a story you could share.

Now about my team....
We won Chairmans in WI. We were very happy all our hard work paid off.

Originally Posted by Leav

Just think about the team who worked their butts off but didn't get any awards.... how does this thread make them feel?

We also had this. The week after WI, we went to Buckeye and we didnt win a single award. We were all very happy though, we had fun and we felt like we were noticed at the tournament.

Joey

[bduddy]

We won the hard hat pins at SVR for getting the most safety tokens, and although I don't want to take anything away from the team that did win the Safety Award, I believe we would have won that, too, if we hadn't won it last year

And even if you didn't win any awards, every team that competed (hopefully) has something to be proud of. It's not all about awards...

[hillale]

Team 1625 (Winnovation) received the following awards:

Midwest Regional:
Judges Award
Autodesk Visualization Award
Regional Semi-Finalist (delivering 1114 their only elimination defeat )

Wisconsin Regional:
GM Industrial Design Award
Regional Semi-Finalist

Colorado Regional:
Regional Champions
Engineering Inspiration Award

[Koko Ed]

We made it through a 17th year in FIRST.
As 4 others teams can attest to, that's really hard to do.
Congratulations to our fellow flagship teams for sticking with the program through thick and thin and showing all the "newbies" how it's done.



































oh.
and we won our second regional ever in our history......

[Herodotus]

Team 910's accomplishments for the season were.

WMR
Semifinalists, thanks to 1504 and 2337.
And we were quite thrilled that Mr. John Crombe won the WFA. He deserves it for all the work he's put into making the team what it is today.

GLR-
Judges Award for our robotics class.
Finalists, thanks to teams 66 and 217.

And our own personal achievement. We had a working robot right out of the crate at WMR and it is one of the best robots we've ever had. I am incredibly proud of what the team has accomplished this year.

[web_master_dpep]

Originally Posted by Leav

dude I don't mean to rain on your parade but most teams do not win an award.

Doing an "in your face" thread with 14 exclamation points in the title isn't really GP.

FIRST isn't really about the awards. it's not even about the competition. it's about the road to the regional.

Awards exist to help create a sense of achievement and accomplishment - they exist so that we all have something to aspire to.

Good job though! 6 awards is pretty impressive!

-Leav

p.s.

Just think about the team who worked their butts off but didn't get any awards.... how does this thread make them feel?

THat is true. I was at a regional and walked around the pits for alittle bit. I saw teams working non stop because they had a small team. did great. but didnt make it to finals. got no reward. but in my oponion they were the hardest working team there. they got nothing for what they did.