If you had one thing to be proud about this season...

[Brett W]

I am proud that our team made a 12' foot arm that worked really well. we have always made robots that we had to work on like mad inbetween the heats so that they would work. This year we made a really good working robot that we just had to tune up before each heat. Also the this is our 2nd year in this competition (2 years prior in the CanadaFIRST competition) and we managed to choose the most rare stratagy in this years game. There were only 10 or so robots that had decided to make arms that resembled ours.

What a good year. I assume it is only going to get better from here.

[Steve Yasick]

I am proud that we started out with $0 in our funding account and were able to raise enough money for two regionals and nationals and be able to FLY to Texas!

I am also proud to have seen the great emotion and pride that our engineers showed our students this year. We did not always have good luck this season during matches. Our engineers pointed out to our students that FIRST is about more than just the robot and winning.

I was also proud to know that all of our students made grade requirements for travel to events.

I was also proud to see Andy get the Woodie Flowers Award.

Steve Yasick
Teacher/mentor
Zeeland-Fruitport Robotics
Team 85

[OneAngryDaisy]

I'm proud that this year everything really seemed to fall together.. Our first group of 4-year seniors had the best year possible, what with our Philly Chairmans award and Galileo championship..

[team222badbrad]

Bringing home some hardware for once......

The four awards we won and being finalists at 2 regionals

2003:

Arizona Regional: semi-finalists and Team Spirit Award winners

Philly Regional: finalists and Quality Award winners

New Jersey: Regional finalists and the longest and hardest to say award:
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship

Championship: Archimedies semi-finalists and TEAM SPIRIT AWARD

[Mark Hamilton]

Winning the UCF regional, after working non-stop completely rebuilding our transmissions after EVERY match. I was very proud of my team for refusing to give up no matter how remote our chances of winning seemed.

[Mike Schroeder]

i am proud of many things, and as i look back, its been the 4 years of awsomness that my drive team has had, second is probobly teams having such a great intrest in somthing that we built. and most of all, i am proud that team 16 gave us "The Most Feared Robot" award at Nationls, i think that this says it all, we were a strong and fast robot that did what we wanted it to do, and did it well

[Kyle]

this is my first year in FIRST and i am proud of everything my team did this year, even though we didn't place well at Nat's, we still built an awesome bot, that did every thing we wanted it to, I'm proud that our team stayed together even after we had some problems on the Field, we were disappointed but we still stayed together and had fun, lots of fun in the hotel I'm also more than just proud to be part of FIRST, it has changed my life for the better i cant really describe what this year meant to me, it was just fun..

[Ian Mathew]

Originally posted by Solon Jhee
If i had one thing to be proud about this season it would be winning the newton division at nationals, and this match would be my proudest moment as a driver (302), what was your proudest moment


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I have AOL, and it was playing 1 second, then re-buffering so I stopped about 5 seconds in. If I had to take a guess, I'd say it was you guys flipping us back after we had been flipped completely upside down. That's mine, anyway. I was shocked that after being completely flipped over, and then flipped back on our wheels, we were still able to operate almost perfectly.

[MisterX]

For me, it was having my team build a new motor mount, replace the old one, and allign the gears that had been pulled apart after being bent off during practice at UTC (HEY! our alluminum weld held!).

Then seeing all of my team mates pride in our suction system that we spent many sleepless hours on even though it was never able to be used in any matches at regionals.

Never giving up on a robot that didn't move until regionals and was 45-pounds over weight 1 week before shipping after being swissed because of a misomuncation between the two groups.

[J2Kraatz]

If I had one thing I said I was proud of this season...

It would be the effort of all the teams and mine that I was proud of.

[hacksaw692]

It has been an amazing year for me. There are just too many things to name off that I'm proud of, it's hard to pick just one...

Firstly, I have to say that I'm proud of myself for accomplishing so much with this team. I was afraid of taking on my position as leader in the beginning. It was a big job and I thought I was too small to take it on. I was able to survive so many hardships, but not without the support of my team. They are an awesome group of girls and I love them dearly.

My team was able to make it through Sacramento's first regional. It was an awesome experience and a great thing to see here. I am happy to see that, as the "home team", we were able to win the Regional Champion title. I was in awe to see that happen.

In Sacramento, we were also able to win the Motorola Quality award. I love this robot and what we were able to do with it is a major accomplishment in comparison to what we did last year.

Team Spirit... enough said

I remember at the beginning of the year making it a goal to have the team qualify for nationals. We're an even numbered team and I'm graduating on an odd year. I wanted my last year on the team to end with a bang and winning the Sacramento Regional got us there.

In Houston, we were sitting in 69th place in the Archimedes division before our very last match. As driver, I didn't want us ending like that, especially since I'm a senior. I drove that robot like I stole it and managed to gain 210 qualification points. That boosted us 15 spots in rank to 54th. Not the best, but how we got there was great!

Okay, so I'll stop rambling now. But, I have to say that the Fembots mean too much to me. They are very supportive and they never give up. I am sad to be leaving them next year. But I know they'll make me proud next year.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Sherry,
It was great to see your team in Houston. We were cheering for you whenever you came up. You had a good robot and drive team, and lot's to be proud of. Keep up the good work! Go Fembots!

[Soukup]

3 things...

1. Actually rebounding from last year's humiliating season and doing really well.
2. 3 regional aniamation awards...we worked hard for those babies.
3. A #1 seed in Galileo. It's so much more fun when you're at the top

[Gene F]

At the risk of sounding like I'm bragging it would have to be the range of accomplishments and awards we received this year.

At VCU,
KPC&B Entrepreneurship,
Xerox Creativity and
Autodesk Visualization,

at Peach Tree,
Leadership in Control,
Autodesk Visualization,
Finalist and
Regional Chairman's,

at National's,
Winning every match we played in,
Highest QP average of all divisions (199),
Top Seed in Curie,
Champions on Curie,
Overall Finalists and
Engineering Inspiration.

It's a testament that all members of this team gave it their all! Every aspect of our team was a success.

[Josh Hambright]

My team winning the chairmans award at the Midwest Regional. We have been working on the chairmans award since our sophmore year and we really never thought we would win it. I mean yah we try and do alot of stuff for the community and all of that but the competition in chicago was intense. That by far was my proudest moment!