FRC Blog - New Subdivision Names

[jvriezen]

I was hoping for Ada Lovelace. Would be cool when our team from Byron got assigned to the Lovelace field. (Who can spot the connection first ? )

[ratdude747]

The choosing of Grace Hopper is interesting... I hope there aren't any BUGS (if you know your history, you'll get the joke). Does that mean there will be FRC libraries for COBAL now?

[Andy A.]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

My team would flip if we got into Hopper. We even named a robot after her!

Outstanding! 95 did the same in 2000. The name kept getting mangled by the field announcer into Grass Hopper, and it stuck no matter what we did. The next year people were still calling us the Grasshopper team, so we rebranded to it.

I really hope if we qualify for champs we get Hopper division.

[indubitably]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

Good choices, I like the diversity. I just wonder how often Carson/Carver will get confused due to the similarity, and Curie isn't too far off.

I was thinking the same thing.

Part of me wished that they would scrap Archimedes and Galileo in favor of only 2 syllable names, there are plenty:

Turing, Feynman, Euler, Hawking, Darwin, Fermi, Bardeen, Maxwell, Sagan, Tyson, Mendel, Fleming, Kepler, Hubble, Neumann

Can you guess what my major is?

[adciv]

Originally Posted by indubitably

Can you guess what my major is?

Geology?

[Carolyn_Grace]

The picture of Grace Hopper on the wikipedia article is amazing. I bet no one messed with her. Definitely my new favorite superhero.

[JamesCH95]

We liked Grace Hopper before it was cool...

Very excited to see our name-sake Grace Hopper as a Championship field!

[IndySam]

This is the 60 Minuet interview that turned me onto Grace Hopper 30 years ago.

[MrRoboSteve]

Adm. Hopper came to my 6th grade class and handed out nanoseconds. Wish my mom hadn't cleaned out my bedroom when I went off to college...

[Foster]

When I was an engineer I saw Grace Hopper and her nanosecond wire talk. Very cool.

Originally Posted by indubitably

Turing, Feynman, Euler, Hawking, Darwin, Fermi, Bardeen, Maxwell, Sagan, Tyson, Mendel, Fleming, Kepler, Hubble, Neumann

I'd like to see FIRST use different names each year for the fields, keeping Einstein for the finals. So many great science, engineering and math heroes, give them all a shot.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Foster

When I was an engineer I saw Grace Hopper and her nanosecond wire talk. Very cool.

Wow. Sounds like a very quick talk.

[cadandcookies]

Great variety for the new fields. Hopper and Tesla are great (okay, Grace Hopper is one of my personal idols), but I'm really happy that Carson and Carver were included. I think including them really says something about how important it is to use STEM skills to make a positive impact on the world socially as well as technologically. Tesla might be just plain cool, and Hopper might have been one of the greatest early computing pioneers, but Carson and Carver are the ones that stick out to me, because they both speak to the social responsibility of STEM professionals.

[MARS_James]

I have a big issue, with two of these fields transitioning to Einstein it gives those fields an unfair advantage to seating to watch the final matches, and the two fields will need to be next to each other and if they have them facing the VIP section like the last few years we will not be able to fit 600 teams worth of spectators to see both fields

[KelliV]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

I have a big issue, with two of these fields transitioning to Einstein it gives those fields an unfair advantage to seating to watch the final matches, and the two fields will need to be next to each other and if they have them facing the VIP section like the last few years we will not be able to fit 600 teams worth of spectators to see both fields

While the "best" seats may be taken I don't see a huge issue finding seats. The EJ Dome seats 66,000. If they use half of it that is still 1/3 of the floor space it should have sight lines for roughly 26,500 (half of the seats can be filled and then subtracting 6700 for the luxury seating that is unavailable for teams) that still gives teams the ability to bring 40something people to sit with them. Some bring more, some bring less.
Thinking more it could be worse to be in those seats for divisionals, you may have to clear seats for judges and wristbands teams, so do you watch your divisional finals from prime seats, or give that up to secure the best seats for Einstein?

[rick.oliver]

Originally Posted by KelliV

... you may have to clear seats for judges and wristbands teams, so do you watch your divisional finals from prime seats, or give that up to secure the best seats for Einstein?

That would be a very nice problem to have ...