The Mobius, WFA and WFFA site

[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

[kmehta]

Originally Posted by 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

You can now add 604 to the list! Jim Mori won at Silicon Valley tonight, in addition with Helen Arrington (Sacramento 2010), and Maggie Best (Sacramento 2011). Threepeat!

I will try and post some pictures on our website later taken after Andy Baker presented it to Jim Mori. Edit: Photos are posted here.

[Andy Baker]

OK, I was able to make a few changes.

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?

Met-L-Flo out of Rockford, IL makes them. Also, I added a "trophy design" page.

Originally Posted by RMiller

Just an FYI: you appear to be missing the 2009 Minnesota (North Star and 10k) winners.
North Star: 1816 - Mark Lawrence
10k: 2177 - Kurt Aschenbeck

Thanks, they are listed now.

Originally Posted by Carol

I love! Would it be possible to put pictures of the WFA winners? So we can recognize them when we see them?

Some of them have pictures and bios. I've written most of the WFA bios, and could use some help here. If anyone has more pics and wants to give input on a bio, that would be great. Just sent me a PM.

Originally Posted by jblay

NY seems to be left out
Jeanne Boyarsky 694 was the winner
woot^

The Sunday thing messed me up here, and I missed listing Jeanne. Sorry 'bout that. She is listed now.

Originally Posted by Libby K

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.

Whatever you can get, Libby, would be very appreciated.

Originally Posted by 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.

Dina Campagna moved from team 341 to team 357 a couple of years ago, but I never updated the list so she is with the three guys on 357. She brings the WFFA total on team 357 to 4 winners. They are now alone in the lead.

I updated the list tonight (excel file and html list), and I captured about 10-12 WFFA mentors who have changed teams. From Scott Ritchie and his new team (3947) to Dave Scarcella moving to team 231, there are various changes.

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

...oh one more picky thing ... the drop down list of all the WFA is a little too long. Is it possible to put the names in two columns?

Um, I dunno how to do that yet.

Originally Posted by DCA Fan

This is great, I'd love to see some of the essays as well. I can contribute the few that I have if you'd like them.

Yes, feed me any info you guys want to provide, and I can make WFFA pages with essays included.

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

It may be worth adding another column, one for team when they won, and one for current team.

It doesn't appear that everyone's teams have been updated, Pat Fairbank is still listed as 1503 but is now with 254. Obviously mentors moving between teams is tough to track since their is no database of team members or mentors.

Yep, got it. A "notes" column is added. If anything needs to be added there, please let me know. This is also a good place to list that a few of these wonderful mentors have sadly passed away.

Sincerely,
Andy

[Carol]

Originally Posted by 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.

Well, if you want to be technical about it, (since you love playing with data) the last list should be on the list with 3 WFFA, since all the WFAs had to win a WFFA first.

Although I can see the rationale about leaving them off the WFFA list since it is long already.