I need some help with scouting

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Posted by Mike Soukup at 03/01/2001 11:30 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling and Motorola.


In Reply to: don't give up yet
Posted by Ken Patton on 03/01/2001 6:11 PM EST:



Have you talked to Kenny about this? SOAP is the 'central' database in the WASH w/ SOAP system, so you'd be directly exchanging data with SOAP, not WASH (one of these days I'll explain the system better). But yes, we are interested in sharing data with you guys. Email Kenny & myself and we'll talk more about it.

Mike

: btw, when I hear SOAP/WASH, I think of Darrel Waltrip!

Who's Darrel Waltrip?

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Posted by Raul at 03/02/2001 8:02 AM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: Re: don't give up yet
Posted by Mike Soukup on 03/01/2001 11:30 PM EST:




: Who's Darrel Waltrip?

Mike,

You are starting to sound like Dean Kamen.

Raul

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Posted by Robby at 02/26/2001 6:14 PM EST


Other on team #108, The SigmaC@Ts, from AIFL and Motorola.


In Reply to: tons of databases, none of them successful...
Posted by Anton Abaya on 02/25/2001 7:19 PM EST:



: prolly because there's too many and there isnt a CENTRAL database.

OH SHNAP!!! DEEEEEEEEAMN! Anton layeth the smacketh downeth! Heh, me and my big mouth. Bah well, coulndt resist. Team 108 is gonna murder me now...

-Robby O
oshortwan@hotmail.com
Soon to be Team 111's Animation Mentor
Permanently Though FIRSTanimators Moderator

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Posted by soap108 at 02/26/2001 10:51 PM EST


Engineer on team #108, SigmaC@T, from Dillard & Taravella HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: Re: tons of databases, none of them successful...
Posted by Robby on 02/26/2001 6:14 PM EST:



Did any of you db-nay-sayers' robots get built correctly the first day? Or did it take time? How much time? Was your robot the collaboration of multiple teams or just your own?

I think [your] definition of "success" is much different from ours. It may even be a bit selfish.

There's a tremendous amount of effort put into these db's that [you] are not aware of. Such is the level of detail and forward thinking that (at least) the WASH and SOAP teams have put into their system.

What is a goal of FIRST? To teach/mentor HS students in Science and Technology. WASH/SOAP is no different. We happened to build a "software robot" and not a mechanical one. Our 'Kit of parts' are our students and their minds.

I personally have a much greater appreciation for teamwork, now having gone through the headaches of LEADING a cross-site (cross-areacode/cross-country/cross-FIRST-team/younameit) development. And I haven't even graduated college yet! (two more months)
SOAP is run by Alumni and students, not professional engineers (yet). WASH (MikeS) is headed by a recent Motorola intern who graduated college. And I believe Nate (GMCIA) is also still in college?

And here's the bottom line- our SOAP StUDentS have LEARNED much more about software development, information technology, and true teamwork than any of our previous year's robot-teams combined. And to think they're just 9th/10th graders and some of them aren't even a part of our official high school partners! The average age is