FIRST learned lessons

[MisterX]

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[LBK Rules]

What is it with all this freshman talk!

You do know that some middle-schoolers get to play with angle grinders on our team.



Oh, was I supposed to say that?

[MisterX]

I'd take 1 middle-schooler over a dozen freshmen any day!Middle schooler are willing to learn and be taught plus they don't all of a sudden think they are all that merely because now they are in highschool

[E. The Kidd]

let's get back on topic, and to be quite honest some of the freshmen on 713 work harder than the upper class men

[Matthew936]

lessons learned...

Plasma ARC cutters are fun

if someone seems like they know exactly what they are doing, odds are they don't

why blame the programmers, it is electricals fault anyways

and finally when opperating a mill, don't try to remove the shavings with your bare hands (think i still got a sliver of aluminum in me)

[Dimples04]

Lessons learned:

1) don't turn your back on a freshmen when they are 90% of your team.

2) tape and boys don't mix (especially if one of them ends up cacooned to the wall

3) never let a boy do your work...if something goes wrong you'll probably be the one to blame

[josh_johnson]

a little more than 1 thing but here is my list


1. Never touch a drill motor after it has been running for 15 min.
2. Soldering irons are hot, even after being inserted into the snow. (This wasn't me)
3. Never attempt to remove the tip of a soldering iron when it is still plugged in. (This was me)
4. When desperate for a battery to power a cordless circular saw, the robot battery will work. (Just don't use 24 gauge wire to connect it)
5. Always keep the following tools handy: pipe stretcher, graphite magnet, adjustable allen wrench, and a metric crescent wrench.

[utishpenguin]

lessons learned:
1)not to bring that much food to build
2)ordering frehsman around has a limit
3)never be mean to stoners/people who dont do work
4)never be timid
5)how to work in a team well

so much more of lessons about the spirit of first and first place....and how to treat other people.

[Alaina]

I've learned not to be shy, and to speak up; because my opinion actually does count.

And that you must wear safety glasses at all times!!

[utishpenguin]

also....not to waste zipties...=P

[Powers]

If you measure where to drill 4 holes around another hole that you have yet to drill, and when you drill the middle hole it wanders, then you proceed to drill the 4 other holes, the screws will not line up, and you will get to "open" the hole with a file until the screws do line up, and that is not very fun.

[Amanda Morrison]

1. Being a mentor only requires an open mind and fifty thousand times more responsibility.

2. Yelling and screaming gets you nowhere in life. A smile and a good sense of humor take you places.
3. All those little jobs that you would never want to do? That's what I get stuck with...

4. There are two things that FIRST always forgets to put inside the kit - more time and more money. There's never enough of either during the build season.

5. No matter how bad the situation seems, there's always a kid on your team that will keep trying to make it better.

6. The sacrifices that you make for your team are the ones that students will remember for a lifetime.

7. The best jokes are inside jokes with the kids on your team.

8. A FIRST friend is a forever friend.

9. The challenge of FIRST is not building a winning robot, it's that student, sitting in the corner, dying to create that robot - and you putting the wrench in his or her hands.

10. Never underestimate the power of the Chicken Dance.

[randomperson]

Wait.. we're supposed to learn?!!

Whoa.. the lessons are making me dizzy..

[E. The Kidd]

Now that the FIRST season has come to a close I thought I would try to revive my thread and see what lessons were learned at the comps.....

I learned never to ask for something cause you just may get it (3 matches with 25...ha)

[George1902]

Originally posted by amandabean
8. A FIRST friend is a forever friend.

aww!! that's so true!

*hugs all his former SPAM-mates*

i love you guys!