What's the most interesting thing about your team that's not on the Internet... Yet?

[waialua359]

I believe our team has been to the most different regionals in FRC history.
Other than the San Jose, Vegas and Hawaii regionals, we have never done any other more than once.

**sorry, just read the last part of the post title.

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by waialua359

I believe our team has been to the most different regionals in FRC history.
Other than the San Jose, Vegas and Hawaii regionals, we have never done any other more than once.

**sorry, just read the last part of the post title.

My team was like that for a while before New England started districts.

Since 2005, we have been to Buckeye, Boilermaker, Wisconsin, Chesapeake Bay, Las Vegas, North Carolina, and Washington DC regionals. The only regionals we had been to more than once was the BAE Systems Granite State Regional and the UTC Regional.

You guys have been able to go to way more regionals than we have, though.

[legogeek24]

We like to think ourselves unique in that you have to know how to back a trailer to transport our robot to a match (pictured here)

My personal favorite is that myself (the drive coach) and the driver juggle foam potatoes during introductions before each match, and then throw said potatoes into the crowd.

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Our team has a huge presence in the LGBTQ community, one that has built up over several years. As many as 2/5 of our team of 30 identify as something other than heterosexual. It's good to know that we aren't "unique" on that point.

What I think we are unique in is our focus on the Imagery aspect. We have radically changed our theme each year, and we have have a large subteam of students whose primary work is to develop all aspects of the theme. This year we were hippies.

Peace, love and robots!

I was going to say that our teacher sponsor on Team 1339 can do a mean rap...
Then I realized that this is about things that aren't on the internet.

[EmmaKay1019]

Originally Posted by MariOlsen

Only a couple members of TaRDIS have ever watched a single episode of Doctor Who. None of us have watched Season 8 or any of the original doctors because they're not on Netflix yet. We were going to give everyone a crash course on the bus to St. Louis, but no one had DVDs so we decided to watch Star Wars (and Pride & Prejudice... long story) instead. Even I can't name more than 5 or 6 doctors off the top of my head (and that's if you count John Hurt), and I'm the one the team pointed people to when they asked us "Who's the big Doctor Who fan?".

(We picked the name because our school colors are blue and white and it contains the letters T and R for Taylor Robotics).

I'm from team 5418; the Sonic Screwdrivers, the other rookie Dr.Who themed team. Very much of our team actually does not watch Dr.Who, and our team name was originally "Mischief Managed", but our school did not approve of the name.

[LCJ]

My team has high school teachers, quite a few electrical engineers, a few software engineers and even a machining expert as mentors but no professional mechanical engineers.
We seem to do fine though.

We also have some taboo words:
"Water-Game"
"Swerve"
"Carbon Fiber"

The latter two were taken off the list after this year as the entire team came together and helped our mentors overcome their traumatic past

[Connor McBride]

We have a thing for spoons.
(Be prepared for the surprise ice cream social)

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2013- mechanical
2014-mechanical, design, human player
2015- mechanical, design, CAD, driver
2016- ???