FRC Blog - New Subdivision Names

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

Good choices, I like the diversity. I just wonder how often Carson/Carver will get confused due to the similarity, and Curie isn't too far off.

I thought the same thing. A-C-G-N-E were easy to abbrev.; having A-C-C-C-G-H-N-T-E will prove to be a bit more confusing.
Also: aren't there two Einstein fields this year? Will they be E1 and E2?

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by Taylor

I thought the same thing. A-C-G-N-E were easy to abbrev.; having A-C-C-C-G-H-N-T-E will prove to be a bit more confusing.
Also: aren't there two Einstein fields this year? Will they be E1 and E2?

I know, I memorized the field names because the initials ACGN was close to the abgn classes for wireless. Remembering the division names will be hard this year.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

I know, I memorized the field names because the initials ACGN was close to the abgn classes for wireless. Remembering the division names will be hard this year.

I always remembered them based off DNA nucleotides: ATGC, except the T was an N.

[adciv]

I wish Tesla was going to FTC and Franklin used in FRC instead. It would be very appropriate for the two FTC fields to be Tesla and Edison given the minor disagreement those two had in the late 19th century.

[Koko Ed]

I can start making direction signs to place at the dome entrance to point people in the right direction to their fields. A que teams should be assigned there to play traffic cop. There will be alot of teams going back and forth there all day.

[James1902]

Originally Posted by adciv

I wish Tesla was going to FTC and Franklin used in FRC instead. It would be very appropriate for the two FTC fields to be Tesla and Edison given the minor disagreement those two had in the late 19th century.

But then the Edison field would claim all of the victorious FTC alliances, regardless of the Tesla field's contributions.

[IKE]

Originally Posted by adciv

I wish Tesla was going to FTC and Franklin used in FRC instead. It would be very appropriate for the two FTC fields to be Tesla and Edison given the minor disagreement those two had in the late 19th century.

What about moving Einstein to FTC, and having Edison and Tesla as the new E1/E2 fields.

Of course, music would be obligatory AC/DC....

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by IKE

What about moving Einstein to FTC, and having Edison and Tesla as the new E1/E2 fields.

Of course, music would be obligatory AC/DC....

It isn't fair to history to have an Edison/Tesla without a Morgan/Westinghouse (judging rooms, maybe?).

[Jon Stratis]

My team would flip if we got into Hopper. We even named a robot after her!

[jvriezen]

I was hoping for Ada Lovelace. Would be cool when our team from Byron got assigned to the Lovelace field. (Who can spot the connection first ? )

[ratdude747]

The choosing of Grace Hopper is interesting... I hope there aren't any BUGS (if you know your history, you'll get the joke). Does that mean there will be FRC libraries for COBAL now?

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

The choosing of Grace Hopper is interesting... I hope there aren't any BUGS (if you know your history, you'll get the joke). Does that mean there will be FRC libraries for COBAL now?

I hope I get assigned to Hopper field. I might have to cut out some moths and hide them about the area...

[Bob Steele]

I like the selections but it would have been really nice if Lise Meitner had been honored. She should have won the Nobel prize for a variety of reasons not the least of which was that she was a Jewish female scientist doing work in Germany in the 1930's... didn't get the recognition she deserved.

I am happy that these four were honored as our field choices though.

[StillDefective]

Tesla PLEASE

[KarenH]

First of all, a disclaimer: I'm an English major. Whether that excuses what follows, you be the judge.

FRC Championship Field Names
to the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”

You know Carson and Tesla and Newton and Carver
Archimedes and Curie and Galileo and Hopper
But do you recall
The most famous scientist of all?

Einstein, the white-haired thinker
Had some very snowy hair
And if you ever saw it,
You’d be put off by its glare.
All of the other students
used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Einstein
Join in any spelling games.

Then one foggy darksome night,
Thoughts just came his way
Einstein with his hair so white
Did some physics, saw the light.

Then how the people loved him,
Shouted out “E and MC!
Einstein, the white-haired thinker,
You’ll go down in history!”