A friendly reminder to everyone

[JaneYoung]

What in this topic makes it spotlight worthy? As far as I can see, it makes it worthy of the Chit Chat forum.

Jane

[RoboDesigners]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

What in this topic makes it spotlight worthy?
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[Off-Topic]
This could be a topic for a whole new thread.

Some quotes are spotlighted for being "true" or some memorable/important principle. Others are spotlighted because they are funny/interesting. I felt this was funny/interesting (particularly because it is something that is sort-of contrary to an engineering mindset (engineers don't like to fail, and most don't like to blow things up), and FIRST is filled with engineers, therefore, it is ironic, and irony is a type of humor), so I spotlighted it.

I wasn't around when the spotlights were started (I think it was in 2002, based on searches), so I'm not entirely sure what the original purpose of the system was. Please correct me if my idea of what makes a "spotlight-worthy" post isn't accurate.

Andrew
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[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by RoboDesigners

[Off-Topic]
This could be a topic for a whole new thread.

Some quotes are spotlighted for being "true" or some memorable/important principle. Others are spotlighted because they are funny/interesting. I felt this was funny/interesting (particularly because it is something that is sort-of contrary to an engineering mindset (engineers don't like to fail, and most don't like to blow things up), and FIRST is filled with engineers, therefore, it is ironic, and irony is a type of humor), so I spotlighted it.

I wasn't around when the spotlights were started (I think it was in 2002, based on searches), so I'm not entirely sure what the original purpose of the system was. Please correct me if my idea of what makes a "spotlight-worthy" post isn't accurate.

Andrew
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Sounds like you've got a handle on the spotlights. With this one - I would wonder why it is spotlit if I saw it, maybe not right now but a few months down the road, a year, two years. Mythbusters is awesome and the stars of Mythbusters do very cool things, true, but their goals in the show may be a little different from FRC.

What you might spend some of your free time doing is reading some of the threads/posts that the spotlit quotes are taken from. You can usually find some excellent discussions that way.

Jane

[RoboDesigners]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Sounds like you've got a handle on the spotlights. With this one - I would wonder why it is spotlit if I saw it, maybe not right now but a few months down the road, a year, two years. Mythbusters is awesome and the stars of Mythbusters do very cool things, true, but their goals in the show may be a little different from FRC.

What you might spend some of your free time doing is reading some of the threads/posts that the spotlit quotes are taken from. You can usually find some excellent discussions that way.

Jane

Ok, now I see where you were coming from. Thanks!

[Taylor]

I agree with the OP. According to someone in the know, it's good to break things early. Celebrate your failures as well as your successes.
There's also this other thing about an iterative process ...

[Bill_B]

The advice that things can be blown up this year is especially apt. In fact, several dozen things will be blown up, viz. game pieces in four colors.