2003 FIRST Robotics Competition

[Kyle Hill]

Dean-o's opening speech at the 2003 Kickoff in Manchester..

"Oftentimes, people talk about water as if it's a good thing. But in all cases of good things, they can go horribly, horribly wrong. That's why I suggest you perform a task vital to society over the next six weeks, and build the best wet-vacs ever made!"

Teams are given a kit parts to build a shop vaccuum that holds water. Points are scored for volume of water sucked up off the playing field. Multipliers come in the form of little floating rubber duckies that can double, triple, and even quadruple an alliance's score!

(Water gracious-professionally supplied by the National Beverage Corporation and the people in the office above FIRST's in NH.)