Kick-Off 2010 - Who's Excited And What Is A Skill That You Want To Develop?

[Bob Steele]

Excitement is peaking.

I guess I set a goal this year of making one new goal for myself.

Hey, wait a minute... I'm done!!

Good luck and see you on the field!!!

[Starke]

We are, with help from other local Rochester NY teams, hosting a "tailgating" style party starting at 7 AM Saturday! Stop by for food including pancakes, sausage, bacon, and games outside in the parking lot! Weather will not stop us!

[MGoelz]

Considering this is my senior year, my ultimate goal is to pass on my knowledge. I've been quite active in FIRST since the summer of 2005, and I don't want my experience to go to waste.

I also want to learn as much as I can. That has always been my goal, and always will be. If anything, I've learned that winning is fun, but that's not what matters at the end of the day. When all is said and done, it's who you met, the connections you made, and the competitions, and time spent with your team building a machine that you can all call your own that you remember with pride. Therefore, I also want to meet lots of cool and fascinating people. What better place to do something like that than on Chief Delphi and at FIRST competitions.


Good luck everyone with your endeavors!

[ATannahill]

Last year everyone was saying "Are you ready?" and I thought I was as ready as could be. Then, when the GDC was in front of the black curtain, my brain was screaming "I'm not ready!".
Now I am wondering if I am excited. I say yes but I doubt it will hit me until tomorrow.

My goal for this season is to succeed. I want to succeed in helping my team. I want to succeed in helping other teams. I want to succeed in spreading FIRST into the community.

[Adare180]

I am quite excited for this year's kick-off. It's hard to believe it will be my 7th FRC season! This year, I'm excited to bring a few of the young ladies on my FLL team to watch Kickoff with the big kids. Best wishes to everyone this season!!!! ...and please take advantage of a full night of sleep tonight... it might be your last full 8 hours of rest for the next 6 weeks.

[DanDon]

Originally Posted by Adare180

I am quite excited for this year's kick-off. It's hard to believe it will be my 7th FRC season! This year, I'm excited to bring a few of the young ladies on my FLL team to watch Kickoff with the big kids. Best wishes to everyone this season!!!! ...and please take advantage of a full night of sleep tonight... it might be your last full 8 hours of rest for the next 6 weeks.

Oh man! It just hit me.....this is my 7th season.....thanks for pointing that out Brittany!

[jmanela]

I am definetly excited about Kickoff! Everyone has been preparing, training, and getting ready. It is at Kickoff where you begin. It's like the start of a race, you've got your car all tuned up, practiced a few moves, and now your ready to see the competition; to see what your up against.

As for a skill,
Last year, since i was the only programmer, i learned everything by myself and from scratch. This year, since i know the fundementals i want to learn more advanced programming concepts, and teach the old ones to the new programmers.

[hyperdude]

I'm really excited. It's senior year for me, and I've been with Team 2503 since its inception.

The last two years I've been responsible for our website, and everything associated with it (pictures, etc). Never got very far with it at all, even though I'm a great web developer. [It's just that when I have to design a website along with building it, the design part catches me up. ]

For this year, I've proclaimed for the last few months that I'll be team captain. I don't have great 'leadership' skills, but I really want to be central to the robot design and construction, and drive team; things I was left out of (at least partly) in the past years. I really want to do design/build team because I kid you not, 99% of the things I suggested last year (things that basically every team included, like belt ball pickup) were shot down by our then senior-topped team, who proceeded to include their radical, over-thought-out features. Needless to say, we ended up in 47th place.

I'm gonna have to watch the kickoff on NASA TV at home because we're not going to the kickoff event. Our coach's aunt passed away recently, and her funeral is tomorrow. A local rookie team is bringing our KOP up to us.

That'll be all.

[Barry Bonzack]

Wait. Kickoff is soon? When is it?!

Of course I'm excited! I'm already excited for the robots to be shipped off so the competitions can begin again.

This year I am planning on letting all of the other fantastic mentors do what they do best with the robot, and I'm going focus my attention on the awards. I am hoping to improve my herding skills.

Originally Posted by DanDon

Oh man! It just hit me.....this is my 7th season.....thanks for pointing that out Brittany!

Wow. Me too.

[comphappy]

Originally Posted by Richard

My goal for 2010 is to develop remote mentoring skills.

And oh yes, I am excited!

Ah yes, me too. It's hard this year, I founded the team a few years back and now I find myself an entire continent apart. They seem to be getting there stuff together, the teachers have stepped up in part of the administrative roll that I filled while I was there. And we now have two new captains both of whom are charging forward.

I can't wait to see them and their robot.

(I still run the server so I will get to see all the bytes)

[Thuvishan.R]

Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence

This year, I'm going to work on being more patient with freshman and rookies on our team this year. In years past, I held this idea that others would catch on to the program and have the expirence I had, right from the getgo. Considering this is my 6th year in FIRST, 3rd year in FRC, I had more experience in my rookie year of FRC than my teammates did. I wasn't used to the idea of other FIRSTers not knowing the true values of FIRST, and what the program is really about.

So, I'm going to try to be more patient with rookies, and explain things to them.

-Nick

That’s Quite the similar story I started Robotics in grade 6 so this would be my 6th year as well. And I was the only grade 9 in the pit crew and I was the Driver Last year, as well this is my Third year participating in FRC and I love it! To answer the threads question I CAN'T WAIT!!!! I’m really excited to step up this year because most of our senior students are gone and it’s time for our year as seniors to mentor and lead our team to victory but the 2 things which I would like to improve on would have to be: 1 to be aware of my surroundings for personal reasons and 2ndly to help the people around me become better people and to succeed in their futures rather than just focusing the attention on myself all the time.

[James1902]

I am so excited for this year I'm bordering on crazy . We've grown drastically as a team this off season and i'm so pumped for the opportunity to see all of our new students at work. I'm also excited to see some of our former students really step up into a mentoring role.
This is by far the most prepared team 1902 has been for kickoff. I just got back from helping set up our new build space (4th one so far) and getting everything ready for build to start, and it's made me even more excited.

The biggest thing I would like to improve on this season is my efforts to secure a new, permanent, build space since the one we're in is going to be torn down after this season. Hopefully we can become a bit less nomadic in the coming years. I would also like to improve on my teaching skills.

Oink Oink...

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by Taylor

I can't recall being more excited about a kickoff. Honestly it scares me quite a bit.

besides my first kick-off ever (2004), I think the same way as you do.

My goal this year is to be more involved with the team that i mentor. Last year, i was rarly around to help out because of classes and work. This year, I managed to schedule my classes and work schedule so that im able to help the team out as much as possible. The school is a 2 hour bus ride away from my place so it's a challenge getting there, but it's a challenge im willing to take head on.

let year 7.5 begin
(I did a half season in 2003)

[efoote868]

Well, I'm on a Co-Op back in my home town this semester. Looks like I get to mentor my old team. That will be an experience. I'm excited for all yous, even if I don't get bogged down into the game as I did in high school.

My Goal is to not put *any* direct effort into the robot. We'll see how well that works.

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[MikePres]

first, i just wanna say: Happy FIRST Day (one of those, anyway), everybody! =D

second, this year's gonna be a real challenge. it's my senior year and last year was our rookie year, so basically i feel as one of the founders of the team. this year i'm also the captain and i hope to really succeed (in competition and and in advertising FIRST in the community) this year so we would leave a real legacy behind us. Hopefully, this year will be the season that will prove to our school that competing in FRC will never be a question again. my final exams are really important, too, and juggling between the two isn't going to be easy (my parents are of course worried, even more than i am, but they know how passionate i am about FIRST). I hope i'll be able to do my best in leading our team to new heights and, above all, prevent the chaos that was going on last year. this December got wasted on doing nothing and it's not so good but... everything's gonna be alright in the end, right?

right? ><

Good luck to all of you in FRC 2010! =D