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Re: bragging rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
enjoyed the story very much !!
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Re: bragging rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I know that as a first year mentor, I personally had an interesting year. We had two students work through the entire design process basically by themselves and they learned a ton. Six people got to have the taste of being on the field during a match, all of whom had a blast. We worked our butts off with fund raising to attend two regionals this year. We managed to go to our first ever practice event and had a lot of fun. Our programmer got to become a builder for four out of the six weeks and then got to have his autonomous code score more points in a single match than our robot did all of last year(excluding climbing ramps). We have many graduating seniors, one of whom was steered into a career with animation because of being part of FIRST. We learned a ton this year and had a great time doing it.
Sorry if bragging about these accomplishments is a bad thing in anyone's eyes but I am too proud of all the hard working kids I had the privilege of mentoring this year to not brag about the great things they did. I've been a driver for 3 exciting regional finals but seeing our team grow so much this year makes it my favorite year in FIRST. Congrats to all you guys on those awards too! Great work! |
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If you asked someone from our community about our team, they'd probably tell you how the ÜberBots won the CT Regional for the third consecutive year, seeding first and going undefeated for all three days. If they were really astute, they might even tell you about how we won the Entrepreneurship Award at the CT Regional for all of our community work.
Sure, winning sounds great at the event - who doesn't like to win? - but that's not the first thing I would think of if you asked me for our team's biggest success story over the years. The reason why I mentioned community recognition in the first paragraph, and the reason why we got the Entrepreneurship Award - the way we have grown and spread ourselves through the community over the years - is the thing I am most proud of. Our team started as a small group, with maybe 12 students, back in 2003. Everyone who joined the team was interested in building the robot, and that's all. We had minimal sponsorship, and if you asked anyone in our town about us... they would have no idea what that robotics thing you mentioned is. 2006 was really when we started our team growth. By that year we had 24 students, and a decent number of sponsors. We started to get involved in the community, bringing the robot to the elementary schools in the town and to other public events. "ÜberBots" still wasn't really a key word for Avonians, but a few people knew who we were. Throughout the 2006, 2007, and 2008 seasons, our team has exploded. We've held dozens of community events and many demonstrations for elementary and middle school students to help to get them interested in science and technology. In the 2008 season alone, we've reached almost 3000 students with our presentations. A large group of eighth graders who want to join our team next year came to watch us at the Connecticut Regional this year. At our most recent fundraiser, dozens of families from our town came to meet our robot, Lightning, and our team members. We brought a scrapbook and video from the competitions to show everyone what FIRST is about, and we taught kids how to drive our robot around. Not only does our town know all about the ÜberBots, people from adjacent towns, and far-off family members and their aquaitances know lots about our team. We now have 36 team members, whose interests vary from fundraising to spirit to CAD to programming to art to spirit to mechanical to leadership and beyond. The thing that means the most to me... it's those 3000 kids, their parents, everyone our team is able to reach with our message of inspiration. The way their faces light up when they see our robot... that's the greatest feeling in the world to me. The smiles and the laughter, the fascinated questions, and the desire for them to become a part of it all... that couldn't be replaced by 10,000 trophies. I am incredibly proud of our team for being able to get involved in people's lives and change them so much for the better; for being able to inspire people to follow their dreams, and this is the success story I want to share with the FIRST community. I want to thank FIRST for the impact it has made on my life, and I am so glad that I have the opportunity to pass it on to others. I hope that everyone else can have the amazing experience of being a role model and an inspiration to others. |
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Re: bragging rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We built another cool looking robot that got recognized!
That's all I care about!I'm also proud of my team for submitting its first Chairmen's Award in our 13 year history. We didn't win, but we put forth a great effort and did a lot of great things to deserve it. We also submitted a WFA submission to honor our lead advisor, who had been with the team since its begining and had taught in our district for an amazing 40 years. She didn't get the award, but we gave her our submission and that was good enough! We also made it into both FIRST: Behind the Design Books. Which I regard as our team's crowning acomplishment. Its a pitty they aren't making one for '08, since we were looking forward to making another submission. Last edited by =Martin=Taylor= : 30-03-2008 at 23:40. |
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- we were eliminated in the semis of the GTR in a 3rd and final match decided by 2 points.
- we were drubbed in the finals of Waterloo by 2056, 1114 and 1680 - we failed to qualify for Atlanta this year via EI or RCA, both of which he had a "pretty good" chance at YET ... last night our students celebrated like we'd just won the Superbowl ... I can't explain it, but there was a beaming smile on each and every one of their faces. They laughed, sang, reminisced about the season(s) past, and spoke of all the amazing things still to be done in the future. If that's not braggable, I don't know what is. |
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171 walked away from Wisconsin with both a regional championship trophy and Rockwell Innovation's Innovation in Control award. Both of which, we are very proud of.
I just want to take a second though to congratulate team 93, NEW Apple Corp from Appleton, WI for the year they have had. You guys are truly what FIRST is all about and I can't think of many other teams that have done what you guys have in the past 11 years. 93, if you didn't know, here is how 93 faired this year: Wisconsin Engineering Inspiration Regional Finalists Minnesota Gracious Professionalism Industrial Safety Innovation in Control Regional Winners Congratulations on the wonderful year and I hope to see you in Atlanta. Another shout out goes to team 1816 and Mark Lawrence from Edina, Minnesota. If you weren't lucky enough to make it to the Twin Cities this weekend for the Minnesota Regional, you missed out. It was an amazing event and for a regional which contained 30 rookie teams, it was one of the smoothest running I've ever seen. 1816 is largely responsible, along with Mr. Lawrence and his interaction with many of the major businesses in Minnesota for raising the amount of teams in Minnesota from 2006's total of 2 teams to this year's total of 54. I've already heard of a similar increase next year which could result in a Minnesota Super Regional. (Twice the fields, twice the excitement). Congratulations on your Chairman's award Green Machine and thank you Mark for the amazing regional. Last edited by AndyB : 30-03-2008 at 23:57. |
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I think they'll do a lot better next year! |
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Re: bragging rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Team 125, though winning the National Championship in 2001 and the Boston Regional last year in 2007, WON ITS FIRST "judge given" award in the teams 11 year history.
The Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award for our "almost hitting the projector" catapult, as andy grady might put it. |
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Re: bragging rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1565 won its first awards ever!! Two of them for the same thing.
In Waterloo we won the creativity award for our linkage drive system, and were semifinalists (losing to 1114, 2056 and 1680). In Toronto, we won the Innovation In Control Award, also for our linkage drive system, and were also semifinalist (losing to 1114, 2056, and 2166.....again) We are really proud, as this is the first year that we won awards or got to eliminations!!!!!! (well 2005 we were the 8th alliance captian in Waterloo... by a huge fluke...) |
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look, this isnt designed as an "in your face" post. i was HOPING that this would INSPIRE teams and to let them see whats out there. I apologize if you are offended or you took this post the wrong way. but i meant no disrespect and i thought rookies might wanna see what kind of success is out there. also i figured it would be a good conversation starter, but i guess not
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Well I guess I just read it wrong.... sorry! -Leav |
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THat is true. I was at a regional and walked around the pits for alittle bit. I saw teams working non stop because they had a small team. did great. but didnt make it to finals. got no reward. but in my oponion they were the hardest working team there. they got nothing for what they did. |
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