How do you feel toward you robot?

[Joe J.]

This has been my 4th year FIRST as a student. This build season has lived up to my expectations fairly well. We built our team's most complex robot to date, and we did it without a machine shop. This years bot is about 10 times more complex than last years and we managed to get it working before ship

Getting the robot done is a big accomplishment for any team.

My team likes to joke about our 2003 robot that couldn't run a match without blowing up a transmission (we refer to it as the worst FIRST robot ever) And our 2004 robot that went into the crate with a non working drive train that was too complex to fix, and plans to install a new one on practice day, even that one didn't work well.

[IraJason]

I'm from a rookie team, Dawgma Team 1712, so this is my rookie year in FIRST, and I am extremely proud of both my team and our robot. We stayed focused throughout the entire build season and had our robot finished a week ahead of time, allowing our programmers ample time to test code and for practice. We made a really simple robot that picks up balls and spits them out into the side goals, but it is really efficient at what it does and we are pleased to produce something that is fully functional.

FIRST has been a great exeprience for me. Seeing that little robot of ours going around after weeks of hard work has been well worth the time and effort.