Team 1114 Student: Taylor

[santosh]

props to the kid but no need to drag drama from another thread into this one. let this thread be about your kid and not the drama that was GTR-East. Its unfair to the kid

And kid, props to the stuff you have done. Society needs folks like you.

Congratulations Taylor! You clearly deserved this award! Thank you, Karthik, for posting this thread. It just shows how great the students on FIRST teams are, and all of the accomplishments they achieve. It makes me feel privileged to be in the same organization as students like this. A student, who not only changes their community and the culture around them, but inspires others to do the same.

Great job Taylor! And thank you for your contributions to FIRST! Our only wish now is that you stay involved

[Meredith Novak]

Congratulations to Taylor who is a very nice young man. My picky daughter even says so, not that I would want to embarrass her on a public forum or anything. Looking forward to seeing all the Simbots in St. Louis. Cheers from Arkansas.

[neshera]

Just curious:
Where will Taylor be going to college/university?

[Mr MOE]

Taylor:

Congratulations! Given all that you have accomplished, you are well deserving of a Dean's List Finalist recognition.

Keep up the great work! All of FIRST should be very proud to have students like you representing our future.

All the best in St Louis!

[Dmentor]

Taylor is one dedicated student. A true FIRST success story. We need a lot more!

[Bill_B]

This guy looked at the FIRST multiple choice and he checked "All of the Above."

Wow! Ambassador material for sure.

(How come there's no smiley for congratulations? He said hoping to use a dozen or so. )

[Taylor Nicholson]

Thank you everyone for your kind words and congratulations of me becoming a Dean’s List Finalist! I would also like to congratulate Craig Robinson (aka “Butters”) as all that I have done has been supported by him as well as every other member of Simbotics.

I must say that last night I was a little put down by some of the comments in the GTER thread. To wake up to see my accomplishments recognized like this was very uplifting.

I would like to give a quick example from this past build season of the mentor-student relationship on this team. At the beginning of this season I began prototyping and designing our shooter for the 2012 season. I went ahead and designed an entire assembly of a turreted shooter during the first week of build season. From here I presented the design to the engineering mentors on Simbotics. While the mentors said the design was already great initially, it could still be improved. I sat down with our lead engineering mentor as he guided me to better the design and evolve it to what can be currently seen on Simbot Jordan. While I may have learned a little by working myself through the design, I learned much more working with an experienced engineering to help me improve it. This is what FIRST really is for, and our team has found what we think is an almost perfect model for students and mentors working together.

The experience I have had over the last four years would have been much less satisfying without our mentor support, and I can only hope that in the future I will be as inspirational to some, as the mentors on Simbotics have been for me.

Originally Posted by neshera

Just curious:
Where will Taylor be going to college/university?

To answer this, I have been accepted to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, and Queen’s University, and expect to hear a response soon for the University of Waterloo, where I ultimately see myself continuing my education.

[robobandmom]

Congrats to you, Tyler! Good luck in your future endeavors. You have inspired many students on my son's team. I have no doubt you will continue to inspire those around you at university. Your "future's so bright, gotta wear shades."

[Koko Ed]

I remember him at GTR all those times queing them up for matches.
Fine young man.
Congratulations!

[Dancin103]

Congratulations Taylor and all the students on 1114. What a spectacular team and students. Amazing job, and well deserved!

Cass

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Awesome job, Taylor.

Obviously the judges' opinion of your team was very high this weekend as you won RCA and had two Dean's List finalists. I can't recall another team having that much success "off the field" at one event.

Blind criticism is cheap and often unfounded. It seems that everyone doing good work will catch some slander, but remember that for every public defamation there are dozens of people whose high opinion of you goes silent. Keep your head up, ignore the spite, and most importantly keep doing what you are doing.

[Dan 1038]

Great work, Taylor! Both of my rookie teams used tweaked versions of the kitbot on steroids, which has proven to work well for us on the bridges and defensively this year. Thanks for all you do to spread FIRST in the Great White North!

Karthik - You have a great team in 1114, ignore the naysayers and keep doing what you guys have proven works! Best of luck this year, hope to see you in St. Louis.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Karthik

For anyone who wants to claim 1114 students don't design or build their robots, you're basically insulting this young man and his peers.

Oh, Team 1114 does not design or build ROBOTS. They build AWESOME.

What they do is use Robots to trick students like Taylor into BEING AWESOME. While their methods may be devious their results in building students are quite spectacular.

Oh, yeah, their robots are kinda cool too, but it's not about that....

[ghostmachine360]

Congrats, Taylor. These are quite amazing accomplishments; glad to have someone like you join the Class of 2012 Dean's List finalists. Keep balling hard, and hope to see you at CMP.