What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Yet?

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by planetbrilliant

For some reason no one knows, of every female member of our team (sadly, only 5, a number we intend to change), none of them are heterosexual (two asexual, 2 pansexual, and one I don't know but I know they're not straight)

Our team has a huge presence in the LGBTQ community, one that has built up over several years. As many as 2/5 of our team of 30 identify as something other than heterosexual. It's good to know that we aren't "unique" on that point.

What I think we are unique in is our focus on the Imagery aspect. We have radically changed our theme each year, and we have have a large subteam of students whose primary work is to develop all aspects of the theme. This year we were hippies.

Peace, love and robots!

[waialua359]

I believe our team has been to the most different regionals in FRC history.
Other than the San Jose, Vegas and Hawaii regionals, we have never done any other more than once.

**sorry, just read the last part of the post title.

[EmmaKay1019]

Originally Posted by MariOlsen

Only a couple members of TaRDIS have ever watched a single episode of Doctor Who. None of us have watched Season 8 or any of the original doctors because they're not on Netflix yet. We were going to give everyone a crash course on the bus to St. Louis, but no one had DVDs so we decided to watch Star Wars (and Pride & Prejudice... long story) instead. Even I can't name more than 5 or 6 doctors off the top of my head (and that's if you count John Hurt), and I'm the one the team pointed people to when they asked us "Who's the big Doctor Who fan?".

(We picked the name because our school colors are blue and white and it contains the letters T and R for Taylor Robotics).

I'm from team 5418; the Sonic Screwdrivers, the other rookie Dr.Who themed team. Very much of our team actually does not watch Dr.Who, and our team name was originally "Mischief Managed", but our school did not approve of the name.

[The other Gabe]

we dont talk about 2013

[TogetherSword8]

We took an entire wall in the electronics and coding room and laid corkboard for a full risk map. We have played a couple games on it now. We unfortunately have to stop before the start of build season, or we wouldn't be working on the robot.

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by waialua359

I believe our team has been to the most different regionals in FRC history.
Other than the San Jose, Vegas and Hawaii regionals, we have never done any other more than once.

**sorry, just read the last part of the post title.

My team was like that for a while before New England started districts.

Since 2005, we have been to Buckeye, Boilermaker, Wisconsin, Chesapeake Bay, Las Vegas, North Carolina, and Washington DC regionals. The only regionals we had been to more than once was the BAE Systems Granite State Regional and the UTC Regional.

You guys have been able to go to way more regionals than we have, though.

[legogeek24]

We like to think ourselves unique in that you have to know how to back a trailer to transport our robot to a match (pictured here)

My personal favorite is that myself (the drive coach) and the driver juggle foam potatoes during introductions before each match, and then throw said potatoes into the crowd.

[evanperryg]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

we dont talk about 2013

We romanticize 2013 (the year we tend to avoid is our rather cringe-worthy 2011 season)

Also, our 62 students and 12 parent/mentors all fit ourselves in a ~800 sq. ft. shop.

[Jus_McG-3193]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

For some reason, it has become a tradition for the TechnoKats to eat at Steak 'n Shake on the way home after pretty much any FRC event. This despite the fact that they have never sponsored us in any way, nor have they ever agreed to participate in team fundraising projects.

Similar to this, Falco Tech has made it our goal to stop at a Red Robin after every competition on Saturday night, whether it be competition season or in the off-season. Having endless rootbeer float challenges is only part of the fun. Just in the time when I've been on the team (3 years) I believe that we've been there nearly a dozen times, and probably even more since the team inception in 2010.

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

we dont talk about 2013

We dont have 2013.

besides the fact our main driver/CEO fired a camera by hooking it up to 12 volts...

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

we dont talk about 2013

The Granite State Regional in 2013 never happened for 3467. thebluealliance.com lies.

[Kate Muller]

This year we have students from 2 different states, 7 different high schools, and the rest of team are home schooled.

Our rolling tool chest is named Jerry and the wiring team tool box is named Giant Red Tool Box of Doom.

Our lead mechanical mentor doesn't wears pants. In 4 years of mentoring he has worn pants to meetings twice. He normally wears cargo shorts all year in New Hampshire! He is also known for bringing chocolate to meetings and getting in trouble for running in the building.

[CTbiker105]

Using the word "Virginia" is forbidden.

It has no meaning to us and was never relevant in any manner whatsoever.

[GeeTwo]

Early discussions of 3946 almost had the official team name as "Having Fun Storming the Castle" (a Princess Bride reference).
This is our fourth year, and we have exactly one four-year veteran. Jonathan was down on the floor of Carson to accept any alliance offers.

[hectorcastillo]

Originally Posted by orangelight

Our 2013 robot does not exist anymore even though 2011, 2012 and 2014 robots still do.

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

we dont talk about 2013

In an attempt to move frisbees from our intake on the floor to our shooter on the top of the robot, we tried to spin them up a lexan helix. our ability to score points was tied to this helix which was a pivotal part of the whole design. And it never worked.

https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hp...88&oe=55E48873

At the end our our season we stripped the robot apart, took our big helix out to the sidewalk, and curb-stomped the life out of it. The word "helix" is now banned among team 3481.

I later made a board room suggestion meme to illustrate how we should have done things the first time:
https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hp...8b&oe=55C5F116