Need Your Help!

[synth3tk]

Hey CD, it's been a while since I've visited the site. I need your help with something. A few of us are working on creating posters and signs to put up around the school, along with the library, local grocery stores, and the rec center. There would be a few variations of the posters:

The first set would have a witty saying about an FRC or Bedford Robotics fact, then include a link to a page on our website relevant to that group of posters. For example, one poster mentioning scholarships would have a URL to example.com/scholarships.

The second set would simply mention a few of the positions on our team, specifically highlighting the ones that students may not know about. Electrical, marketing, design and prototyping, web design/development, etc. There would be verbiage that makes each position sound appealing. Then a link to that subteam's page on the website.

The last, which is where I need your help, would mention that there are "cool nerds" in the world. I need some biographies or information of people in the field of technology (preferably robotics) that made a popular, well-known product that high school students would know and use on a frequent basis.

I guess this would fit in the last group of posters, but we also want to feature testimonials of FRC students, mentors, or alumnis on our website, with a short quote printed on the poster (with a link to the website, obviously).

You can reply here, send me a private message, email me, instant message me, send me a letter by mail, or use smoke signals. Thanks in advance for your help, CD!

[Al Skierkiewicz]

David,
How about some real people who just do interesting jobs. My son, for instance, works for Underwriter's Lab. He tests HVAC equipment so that devices can receive the UL label. In just a few short years, he has traveled the world to perform testing and monitor in house testing of products. My favorite story of his was monitoring rain testing of building HVAC units in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi engineers were very friendly and gracious people. They were a little incredulous on the rain testing though. Can you imagine hundreds of gallons of water being used for heavy rain tests in a country where the rainfall was less than two inches for the past two years? All of us do interesting things for our careers even if we aren't making big innovations every day.
One of my inspirations was old Doc Edgerton. You know him for all those high speed photos of shooting an apple or playing card or water dropping into a puddle. But you know his work better every time you take a flash picture. Yep, strobe flash was a big part of his work. He started taking flash photos during WWII when the allies needed photos of enemy held lands. To get high res pictures required flying low altitude so Doc helped take pictures at night with big flashes. This allowed the planes to fly low without getting shot down. Doc also developed time code (used in video editing) to help sync several cameras looking at the same event from different angles and distances.

[KrazyCarl92]

Steve Jobbs and Apple. iPods are pretty cool devices...