"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Tammyo]

"Don't get concussed, drink water"

A member of our team last year at the World's Championship last year forgot to hydrate himself. So, as he was walking through booths he fainted and hit his head on concrete floor near a medical booth. Next, thing we noticed, he was rushed to the hospital blabbering about each team member. The only reason he got a concussion was because he refused to drink water. Now our teacher mentor forces us to down a bottle of water before every competition.

Good Job Nabil!

[blackbrandt]

Speculating about how bad it would be to be throwing bins around the field...

Mentor: "And there is Team 900.. the Zebracorns... what a surprise. Throwing yet ANOTHER bin across the field. Whoops! There goes another robot. Team 900 must be at a new record now... that is 17 robots broken in 4 matches. These robots may want to consider just covering the entire robot in bumper. At least they may survive the match. Hey! Stands! DUCK!! Team 900 Death Machine just chucked a bin to the top row of bleachers!"

Our entire mechanical team was doubled over in laughter by the end.

And then...

Student 1: "We should just throw the bins into the other side of the field to knock over their stacks of totes."
Me: "I think that's illegal"
Student 1: "Illegal. But fun."




And my favorite:

"Guys... it is only week 1. You can't already be going crazy."

[Sperkowsky]

Gg

[IceQueenMiki]

Person #1: *proposes idea about suction cups*
President: Okay, now come up with a name for it.
Person #1: Then, how about 'This Idea Literally Sucks'?

[Dival]

So to make dinner we can cut a potato and fill it with some rice and potatoes!"

[Jarren Harkema]

"We should get a cast iron bust of Dean as a counterweight on the back of our bot!"

A little bit later, after some tote testing:

"Okay, so maybe we need a bust of Dean AND Woodie."

[Wyatt Jordan]

mentor: "Some of us have work"
student: "[mentor name], how many times do we have to tell you work doesn't matter during robotics season?!?!?!"

"hand me the persuader"
persuader=hammer

*when it turns out that our subsystems are going to get in each other's way/ discover a major problem
"I don't like this game"

"Dremel" (nuff said)

"every electrical component has this magic smoke in it that wants to come out, your job is to keep the smoke in the system" -something like this is said every other meeting to the electrical team

"wait we're actually designing it in CAD before we build it? Usually we do that afterwards" -said literally yesterday by a mechanical member while i CADed

[MechEng83]

Students took all the totes we bought for practice and built a fort out of them in one of our meeting rooms. One of the students after seeing it commented "That fort is legit" and the mentor in the room asked "Is it ... totes legit?..."

[SquishyIce]

"Fix it, David!"

"That's mechanical's problem"

"Use more zeroes in the code, it makes it lighter"

and who could forget our quality control motto...
"Nobody likes poopy"

[MikLast]

Last year during the build season i had pandora up, and the song "Ain't no rest for the wicked" comes on. Long story short we get a group of 12 high school students badly singing the chrous while the mentors are laughing their butts off.

Rookie year:
"So this is the connector for our camera right?" - team president while holding a 5v camera with 12v wire attached to it, proceeds to connect them and tests it,
-PZZT-
"...maybe not"

we were at our 2nd district event last year, and we happened to be the #8 slot for elim matches, and we were slightly unprepared:
"um, we want..."
"uh, team 4- no, oh shi-"
everyone gets wide eyed and starts laughing

[nikolojedison]

A friend of mine, the Marketing captain, really likes the song 'Hooked on a Feelin'' by Blue Swede.
One of the final times he was playing it, we sang together at the top of our lungs the I-III-IIII part. Spirit captain looks over, giggling, and says, "Never do that again. It made my day, but never again."

[Calvin Hartley]

"Matthew, did you finish that duplicator yet?"


"How long do we want it?"
"About 10. What is it?"
"About 8."
"Perfect."

[pyrtle]

"DID YOU JUST GOJO MY NECK?!"

[brynnanotbrenda]

"This is why we can't have nice things"

[swicki]

"I wago, you wago, he, she, we wago. Wagology, study of wago."