Favorite Award

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Dick Linn

I was rather pleased to have the team receive a Motorola Quality Award, 5 years after starting our rookie year with a plywood robot.

Good deal. Congratulations!
Was the award winning bot also made out of plywood just out of curiosity? Got any links to pics of the award winner to share here?

[hallk]

I'm a big fan of awards with short and easy names. While I think the "business plan award" is super cool I can never remember all the sponsors.

[KathieK]

I love the website awards -because you can learn so much about a team through its website...

[MoeMom]

Originally Posted by hallk

I'm a big fan of awards with short and easy names. While I think the "business plan award" is super cool I can never remember all the sponsors.

I used to think the same thing- I'd never heard of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before- not part of my world. When I read that they were the venture capitalists that helped Dean fund Segway, I was suddenly very thankful that they ventured their capital on us FIRST-folk. Turns out they are very much a part of my world- AOL, Google, Amazon, iphones, green tech and on and on. Now I feel like we're practically family.

On a different thought, I've really learned to embrace the Imagery Award. I realized that for us, it's all about joy and a whole lot of green paint... somebody gets an idea or tells a joke and the next thing you know a big group jumps in and it grows until you get an uppet, or a green man group. It's celebrating that together we are more than just our individual parts.... when you're proud to be seen (from 1/4 mile away) and tell total strangers "I'm with them."

[Dick Linn]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Good deal. Congratulations!
Was the award winning 'bot also made out of plywood just out of curiosity? Got any links to pics of the award winner to share here?

No, the bot wasn't in any way related to the plywood robot. They didn't start giving awards for wooden robots until a few years after we started. I'd have to search around for a pic, but it was the year where we had to pick up balls on the floor and throw them through that chain thing at the goal. The 'bot was just very clean and it was easy to see all the mechanisms and wiring and all that. We had a good ball elevator. It was a 4 wheel drive with the big Skyway pneumatic rubber wheels. It didn't turn well, but the scrubbing when it did turn helped to feed the balls. It could push very well and get up on the ramp, which was part of the game that year.

[Dick Linn]

Here's a picture of the Team 975 2006 robot.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...d=121682924 5

[carolynn4848]

I'm with ReapersRule on this one. Hey, Reaper, e-mail our favorite mentor for me please

[AmoryG]

I have to say my favorite award would have to be rookie allstars, obviously. That's the only award our team has ever won.