Maintain a healthy level of FIRSTism ( the addiction to FIRST)

[Lil' Lavery]

*Go out Saturday night with a group of FIRST friends

done that...

-Have enough FIRST-related shirts to wear one every day of the week and then some
-Your AIM profile consists almost entirely of quotes some poor, luckless, dead-tired soul said one night of the build-season

I think I have 9 or 10 team shirts, and like 3 other FIRST shirts.
2/3 of my current AIM profile consists of things team members have said.
New ideas:
*sacrifice what would've been a fun day hanging out w/ friends a the town festival to advertise your team at its booth
*Watch the NASA channel w/ team members instead of going out with them on a saturday night
*Do the previous in front of a news camera
(note: i've done all of those too...)

[Spaztik Duck]

Originally Posted by Dan Swando

Show school cheerleaders some moves that you learned at Robotics competitions

Hey now, I'm a cheerleader. Now robotics is some major cheering too, but dont down the cheerleaders what we do for competition is hard as well.

Definitly try and get some cheerleaders on your team tho cuz its so funny to be all showing up at robotics meetings after games in your uniform... everyone pauses and is just kinda like *what?*

and things on this list I have done... almost all of them... it makes me happy...

*you try to convince the drama teacher to use the robot in the school play [done this]

*you are trying to build something and you thing 'gosh this would be some much easier to make from aluminum'

*you throw surprise birthday parties for team mentors... and then post pictures online on a robotics forum

*one of your pet peeves is when someone uses the wrong name for a tool

[crazyone]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Get a copy of Inventor and see how many different gear ratios you can fit into one transmission without making it too big or heavy. Then calculate the speed and torque and current draw and voltage drop of the battery in each of the gears.

Or Use inventor to build new Field designs.

[Hinkel Y.]

Here's another one...

*You think of FIRST team numbers when you see numbers on the street, text books, and other numbers you see in your daily life

(This has happened to a lot of people in robotics, and me)

[Addition]
*You speak of the wonders of using a gearbox to your "enemy" (Your school's low tech, other robotics team) because they don't use gearboxes.

*You start promoting people in your school to join robotics at least once a week

*You actually miss the stress of the build period during off-season

*You spend more time on Chief Delphi than doing your homework
[/Addition]

[Rafi A]

Originally Posted by Hinkel Y.

*You spend more time on Chief Delphi than doing your homework

you no longer worry about your suffering grades

[Adam Y.]

*You think of FIRST team numbers when you see numbers on the street, text books, and other numbers you see in your daily life

My friend thought there was 564 days in a year.

-make every paper you write for classes about robotics in some way

Ooo.... man. I did that. My English teacher thinks Im nuts and its a creative writing class.

[opnickc]

Originally Posted by Hinkel Y.

*You think of FIRST team numbers when you see numbers on the street, text books, and other numbers you see in your daily life

. . .

*You start promoting people in your school to join robotics at least once a week

*You actually miss the stress of the build period during off-season

*You spend more time on Chief Delphi than doing your homework

^yep

*Whenever you see your non-robotics friends, the first thing they say is "I know, I know, I need to join the robotics team."

*You watch the Dave Cam at school.

*You hear the name of a city and instantly think of a team in that city

*You have had serious conversations about outlawing the superbowl and replacing it with the FIRST championships.

*You have already started your team's 2005 animation submission.

*You complain about the lack of media focusing on FIRST.

*You also complain that the media that does feature FIRST does a bad job.

*The first thing you do after memorial day is ask your mentors why the team wasn't in the parade.

*You've told total strangers to start a FIRST team.

*You have a physics test next hour and haven't finished your math homework, but still proceed to post a list of thingson the chief delphi forums showing how "dedicated" you are to FIRST.

[Adam Y.]

*You watch the Dave Cam at school.

When you wonder why there is bullet holes in Dave's office.

[Mike Ciance]

Originally Posted by K0r34nB0y

-Your buddy list has the following categories: Buddies, Co-workers, family, robotics

I actually have 2 categories for robotics: Raider Robotix, and Other Teams

[crazyone]

Originally Posted by opnickc

*You have a physics test next hour and haven't finished your math homework, but still proceed to post a list of thingson the chief delphi forums showing how "dedicated" you are to FIRST.

*The whole time your taking the physics test you relate each question to the robot

[Beth Sweet]

*After leaving Atlanta, you tell everyone leaving the local Waffle Hut why exactly it is that you're wearing black jackets with flames on them... and proceed to get unbelievably strange (but interested!) looks from the people to whom you're speaking

[Twitch]

Originally Posted by Spaztik Duck

*you try to convince the drama teacher to use the robot in the school play

Someone in drama asks you to build a robot for the school play...during build season.

You've converted a large portion of the drama club to the robotics team.

You've converted PVC marshmallow cannons built by other eccentric members of your team to fire off FIRST memorabila into the crowd at local sports events.

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally Posted by crazyone

*The whole time your taking the physics test you relate each question to the robot

the only way you can understand your calculus and some physics is to relate it to robotics.

[Beth Sweet]

Originally Posted by Elyse Holguin

the only way you can understand your calculus and some physics is to relate it to robotics.

You found a way to understand physics? Lucky...

[JVN]

Originally Posted by cutiebethy

You found a way to understand physics? Lucky...

Physics is life!

Ball goes up, ball comes down.

If ever there was a subject one could learn through observation...
Gotta love it!