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Unread 10-06-2015, 14:35
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Re: What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Y

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We always have plywood on our robot...
We actively MAKE SURE there is plywood on our robot! Somewhere. Plywood was a material of choice for much of our early year so we now keep the tradition. Our most reliable robot we ever built was our 2012 robot and was at least 30% plywood by weight. It was so simple that it just worked every match. Being in the pits that year was awesome, queue for match, play match, bring to pit, change battery, break out the chairs and lounge, wait for pit scouts and judges. Good times plywood, good times.
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Re: What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Y

OK, my other post wasn't really true, that Mike Corsetto is actually Chuck Norris in a poor disguise (trying to hide under his beanie). But what is really true is that our second longest termed mentor Devin Castellucci (RoboChair) in the last 2 years has spent much more time in other rookie teams pits at competitions than our pit. We're afraid that he's lost any allegiance to our team...
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Re: What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Y

At least 7 of our original students are still involved with the team as mentors.

And on the lighter side, we call FTC Team 4251 (Cougar Robotics) awkward potato puppies.
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Re: What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Y

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We never put any kind of wood on our robots (bumpers aside). From inception to 11 years later, the robot has been wood free.
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Re: What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Y

Everyone on our team knows each other we all work as a big family. We establish team building exercises together like going to the movies or attending scotching hot beach clean-ups which leads to sand ball fights and full body sunburns. Regardless of how our team ends our year even though we set focus on winning we all are still one big robotics family.
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Re: What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Y

Even though FRC 4607 (CIS) is based out of our local High School (Becker ISD 726); has myself (teacher) and our Assistant Principal as the Head Coaches; the school offers no financial support for our team. Even our MSHSL banners hang from the gym rafters and we have roadsigns that welcome people to Becker.

In fact, the Robotics team actually purchases tools and equipment for our FabLab - upwards of $2000 per year. The last two years we invested in capital purchases that include a new laser for our Middle School and a vinyl printer for the HS Tech Ed Department.

Currently, the Tech Ed Department is working with one of our students to build 25 new PCs for our CAD lab.

So even though the school does not recognize our team as an official sport or activity, our robotics team supports the school.

Oh yeah, of the three flags that we have had - none of them are emblazoned with our official Hex Logo.
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Re: What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Y

We have a cursed van that hauls the cursed trailer. We have yet to go anywhere without something breaking on either the trailer or van. Last competition, the trailer latch came off (thank god it was bungy-corded closed). We have gotten multiple tickets for not having a brake lights on the trailer (our mentor claims there's one light for every function between the van and trailer). At one competition we put the trailer hitch through the back window of the van.

Oh, and for us 2013 happened, but we have collectively decided to forget about 2014.
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