Team 1114 Student: Taylor

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Awesome job, Taylor.

Obviously the judges' opinion of your team was very high this weekend as you won RCA and had two Dean's List finalists. I can't recall another team having that much success "off the field" at one event.

Blind criticism is cheap and often unfounded. It seems that everyone doing good work will catch some slander, but remember that for every public defamation there are dozens of people whose high opinion of you goes silent. Keep your head up, ignore the spite, and most importantly keep doing what you are doing.

[Dan 1038]

Great work, Taylor! Both of my rookie teams used tweaked versions of the kitbot on steroids, which has proven to work well for us on the bridges and defensively this year. Thanks for all you do to spread FIRST in the Great White North!

Karthik - You have a great team in 1114, ignore the naysayers and keep doing what you guys have proven works! Best of luck this year, hope to see you in St. Louis.

[ghostmachine360]

Congrats, Taylor. These are quite amazing accomplishments; glad to have someone like you join the Class of 2012 Dean's List finalists. Keep balling hard, and hope to see you at CMP.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Karthik

For anyone who wants to claim 1114 students don't design or build their robots, you're basically insulting this young man and his peers.

Oh, Team 1114 does not design or build ROBOTS. They build AWESOME.

What they do is use Robots to trick students like Taylor into BEING AWESOME. While their methods may be devious their results in building students are quite spectacular.

Oh, yeah, their robots are kinda cool too, but it's not about that....

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Let me take a moment to introduce to the young man on the right of this photo. That's Taylor, who this past weekend was honoured as a FIRST Dean's List Finalist. ...

Taylor also was very active this off-season, here's a list of some of the things he did. ...

Wow! FIRST is supposed to be about inspiring students, but looking at what Taylor has accomplished is an inspiration to ME!

Congratulations, Taylor, on receiving the FIRST Dean's List Finalist award for your efforts!

[Nuttyman54]

Taylor, you are a prime example of why I am a mentor. It is a pleasure to work with students like you, who are motivated, enthusiastic and extremely bright. I hope my mentees look to me for inspiration as much as I look to them.

Congrats on the Dean's list and the regional win!

[neshera]

Thanks for the response.
I have a son who is a sophomore; I'll begin dropping hints about Canadian higher education to him, if the League of Mothers approves him going that far away to University.