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Public apology from myself (Team 830)

This thread is in response to my actions at the GLR.

I just want to apologize to my team and all the other teams for my actions on Thursday at the GLR.

I have been to three FIRST events before this one. Last year I attended the Buckeye Regional and Great Lakes Regional with Team 830, and this year I attended the BAE regional in NH on my own.

At all of these events I noticed a great number of practice robots in the pits next to the shipped robots. Even great veteran teams had their practice bots sitting there. I thought this was a common thing to bring them and use them during the practice rounds while the shipped robot was being brought up to working condition.

So, when our practice round came up Thursday morning and our shipped robot wasn't ready, I didn't think twice about telling our students to use the practice robot. This is my error and I sincerely apologize to everyone including my kids. To all the other teams...I can see now how this would be an advantage, but I thought it was ok. I should have known this was wrong. And to my students...I apologize for all the ill feelings that other teams will have against them now due to my error. This can never be repaired.

As soon as we were confronted by the judges about our practice robot, we immediately removed it. It was outside the building within 2 minutes of asking.

However, I can say one thing. Not a single part was taken from our practice robot (which is a copy of our shipped robot) and put on our shipped robot except for the RC (which did not have to be shipped with the robot) and some PWM cables.

Also, absolutely no part of our practice robot was used to get us through qualification/inspection on Thursday.

The fact that our practice robot didn't even move several of the practice rounds and the fact that we didn't use any parts from our practice robot on our real robot doesn't correct my actions and repair any damage I have done to the reputation of Team 830 and my students. For this, I am truly sorry. I just hope that everyone can understand and blame me and not my students. And I hope my students can forgive me as well.

Please feel free to contact me or post here if you would like to discuss my actions. I will also be at the West Michigan Regional and Atlanta if you would like to discuss anything in person.

I'm sorry.

Sincerely,
Donald Wright
Project Engineer and Manager for Team 830 "The Rat Pack"
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