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#676
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You know your school is warming to FIRST when they set their fundraiser on the job to raise money for the robotics team.
Backstory: I go to SLUH, a Jesuit institution, and much of the schools cash flow comes from alumni and local business. Last year wasn't an issue because we got the NASA grant, but to get the NASA grant again this year, we need to show 6K of our own funding. When the administration got word of this, the told us not to try to do it ourselves. There reasoning is this: Say we (the robotics team) manages to procure a few thousand dollers from a local business. When the school's guy calls that same business to push for, say, 20K in donations, the business can say "we already donated to your team etc." and the school has lost that valualble source of $$. On the other hand, if the school's guy calls the same business without our having called them, he can say: I need a whole lotta money and lots will goto our robotics team. then the business will say: We will sell our company to our competitors and give you all the proceeds. And everyone is happy. So we have professionals doing our fundraising. How awesome. |
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When you know your principal doesn't want to deal with the team anymore, and you know that no teacher wants to mentor the team either, yet you still get a mentor from elesewhere and get[/i] a workspace and are still the most spirited, craziest team at competitions.
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...Well...Combbat does get a bit pysched about competition too, but its definetly a close call between the two. |
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when you are in the process of convincing your parents to let you go to the nationals if your team doesnt qualify... and in return you are giving up a two week trip to india where you have only been once will see people you havent in five years as well as a sweet sixteen birthday party
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News of a new controller comes out and you get so excited that you can't do anything for the afternoon.
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...when you realize this is post 682, and you haven't skipped one reply.
...when thinking 682, you grab your FIRST booklet to look up what team that is. |
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when your parents are coming up to visit you for the weekend and you're going to try and convince them to take you to the robot rodeo in Orlando... they have a car, i need a ride... ultimately i'll be spending time with them while doing something i want to do...
::crosses fingers and hopes her parents are in a good mood:: |
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...when u move out of ur house and and ur dad takes ur old nonfunctional computer and starts fiddling w/ it (replacing drives... chips ... boards) b/c there is no one else in the house is being so mechanical
... when u move out away from ur beloved team and ur mother still wants to sell the bright Hawaiian shirts for your team; becuase the people she works with are so addicted to them (?!) ok, so that 'splains y my parents are addicted... |
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When to help keep the team going (due to lack of teacher involvement) you volunteer to be one of the adults in charge of the room and have to go through a security check which involves a TB test (needles, yuck!) and fingerprinting (and getting lost trying to find the fingerprinting place, sigh) and then, after you watch the room as the only adult (well there was one engineer there who shall remain nameless who is absolutely horrible at keeping order) in the room and you find out just how bratty the kids can be when they write rude and obscene things on the dry erase board, swing chairs at each other, and you catch one of the new kids getting ready to shove a paper clip into a wall socket while two of the returning members look on laughing... all this, and yet it's still not enough to make you run screaming in the opposite direction...
Heidi <==========> addiction or stupidity? |
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when your big dilemma in life is related to FIRST
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... when ur talking to this guy who's trying to mak it w/ u w/ all the perfect lines and u start talking about robotix, and he says that he can build robots and ur reply is 'o can u? well, now u've got me aroused'
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... when you are so desperate to get to a Regional in 2004.... instead of going to one about an hour and a half from school, I'm gonna travel 8 hours to one.. so I can stay overnight, and go more than one day!!! |
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When you use a quote from the top of the CD page in class in a discussion of Plato's republic. (Thanks Andy Baker!)
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when you bring in an entire page of chief delphi replys to your science teacher, and are able to explain them all!
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