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Unread 20-03-2005, 10:37
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

When we won four regionals, of course!
2003- Won Chicago

2003- Won Grand Rapids, even after Hot rejected us in selection.

2005- Won Sacramento

2005- Won Detroit and Judges award

But the best day for our team in my memory ever is:
Just after FIRST 2440- Selecting Rich to be the Captain
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Unread 20-03-2005, 13:43
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

best three days were:

2003- Central Florida Chairmans Award

2004- Colorado Chairmans Award

2005- Central Florida Chairmans Award

Those were some good days!!!!
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Unread 20-03-2005, 13:53
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

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FIRST is about so much more than the competitions. With all due respect to the posts above, if the very best days of every team are defined just by the opportunities to collect plastic trophies, then we need to think again about what we have accomplished. I bet with a little more thought, we can focus on the things that are really important - the future careers created, the lives improved, and changes made to our society and culture. The competition events are just momentary celebrations of what we do. The real work - and real effect - takes place before and after the competitions. And that is where the important stuff happens.

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But you cannot measure the true greatness of FIRST in individual moments. It's measured over the long run. The effect of a lifetime of achievement, mentorship and inspiring others to continue the hard work and dedication that you yourself have given to the project.
Of course listing individual victories do not give FIRST the proper due it deserves but measuring FIRST by an individual day does not give FIRST it's proper due either. The problem lies in the design of the question not the responses.
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Unread 20-03-2005, 14:28
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

Well, I can’t speak for the entire team without discussing this with them first, so I’ll share the top 3 “days” in my own FIRST career (after reading Dave's post):

1) The day that Woodie Flowers personally presented me with the 2004 Peachtree Regional Woodie Flowers award. I am still moved just thinking about this and will remember that moment as long as I live.
2) The day we were able to help our friends from team 1396 build the “One Day Wonder” robot in the pits at the 2004 Nationals. I felt it a privilege to be able to be a part of this. The championship was also nice.
3) We had a special education student on our team for several years. One day his mother shared with us how her son’s experience on the team had changed his life by improving his self esteem.

The plastic trophies for winning events are nice to have. They are presented to the team as a whole at the end of a very exciting day and serve as a tangible reminder for years to come. Many of the heart warming and life changing events that take place in the context of FIRST are rather private and not celebrated. Perhaps we could do a better job of sharing these stories when it is appropriate.

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Unread 20-03-2005, 15:50
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

2004 - Winning Palmetto and Spirit award

2004 - 5th in Curie

2005 - Winning NJ Chairmans award
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Unread 21-03-2005, 20:28
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

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2004 - Winning Palmetto and Spirit award

2004 - 5th in Curie

2005 - Winning NJ Chairmans award
I concur
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

2003-Lonestar Regional- Win Spirit Award, Quality Award, Rookie All-star, Finish both day one and day two as number 1 seed, pick 34 for alliance and go on to be Lonestar champions----then go to Championship a week later and win Rookie All-star overall.

2004-Lonestar-Win Chairman's award and creative award for trashcan suction cup.

2005-Purdue-Win Chairman's and qualify for Atlanta....
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Unread 22-03-2005, 10:49
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

2000: 382 is founded and wins Rookie of the Year award at the Buckeye Regional
2002 and 2004: We avoid having our team disbanded by the school for having no teacher to sponsor it when a new teacher steps in to replace our old mentor (Ms. Holmes and Ms. Mycoff left in '02, were replaced by Mr. Johnston, who left last year. Now we have Ms. Williams, Yay!)
Now: We have more dedicated members than ever before, and 7 loyal mentors. Still searching for an engineer though.
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Unread 22-03-2005, 11:25
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

2003- Chairman's award at Arizona Regional

2001- 710 match at Midwest Regional with Hammond, Wildstang, and Coney

2004- IRI finals
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

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well i think im going to have to go with 4 days, i know we were asked 3 but i cant choose between these. other on the team who have been there longer may have other choices though.

2003- philly regional- received the Leadership and Control award along with our first regional chairmans award.

2003- Nationals- won the galileo division and received business plan award (has too long of a name to try and type out)

2004 - Philly regional- won chairmans award for second straight year at the same regional (ive been old we are the only team to ever have done that)

2004- Nationals- Chairmans award honorable mention

its a bit hard to name just three. but i think its safe to say i can drop the last on listed above and replace it with winning the chairmans for the 3rd year in a row at the 2005 Chesapeake regional alond with the website award
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

2003 Robot Rodeo - Team Spirit Award! The first award we've ever won! We were shocked... We were all so incredibly proud to finally win something - ANYTHING, and it came as a team spirit award. This really inspired a lot of people and gave them confidence. Our robot competed horribly and was an extreme design intended to specialize in something. It ended up specializing in dead last place at UCF. This was depressing as we had never worked so hard. But then to win the team spirit award in the offseason just showed that the team was strong regardless of our robots performance. We were so incredibly happy about that little award!

2004 2nd seed UCF - Finalists with 1083 and 180 (very cool to ally with our Brothers and sisters) - Judges Award.
Robot Rodeo 1st place with 1402 and team spirit award again!
Curie finalist at nationals with 11 and 190 - this was an honor to be allied with that amazing 190 machine!

2005 2nd seed UCF again - Delphi driving tommorows technology award - 1st place finish with 233 and 1529 again a huge honor to be allied with 233. After all these years admiring their machines we actually worked with them and won!
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

1) Great Lakes 2003 - Regional Champions (with 67 and 302). My Brother was driver and I was actually happy to say he's my Brother. that day felt so good

2) Winning the Delphi - “Driving Tomorrow’s Technology” makes me happy because all the students helped talking to the Judges to win us that award.

3) Thursday March 10th, 2005, Pittsburgh Regional. Practise and we striped down the robot and re did every thing but what was welded. missed all but our last practise match.
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

1) June 5, 2004 - Winning our first off-season regional event at Bridgewater Raritan HS

2) March 19, 2005 - Watching our team work together as we have a very spirited recovery from losing 3 matches and coming back to be 6-3, then to have a great set of rounds in the QFs.

3) March 31, 2005 - Reading this thread to realize that our best days are yet to come!
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

1) 2003 National champs

2) 2003 GLR regional Chairmans

3) 2005 GLR regional chairmans



honorable mentions:
2003 MWR finalist (lost to team 45)
2004 MWR finalist (lost to team 45 again)
2005 MWR finalist (this time lost to 71 and 111)
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Re: Top 3 Days in your Team's History

of course winning is great, but i think the greatest moment was getting a "Real Men Wear Pink" button on Woodie's back in New York last year. *looks around* that wasn't me *cough*.
winning the website award in denver was pretty good too because our webmaster had worked on it so hard. he wasn't expected anything from it. so it felt great to see him get the award.
the next greatest moment was 2 years ago being the first team to successfully defend a stack of 8 boxes. also being the first alliance to get all 4 robots to the top of the ramp. that was great...
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