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Life is unfair. Learn to deal with it or be unhappy. |
Joe Johnson |
StephLee |
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OUR CNC machine is named Joe, and he has this week of school off. He eats candy instead of electricity. Not so accurate or repeatable, but very easy to re-program. |
Not2B |
Joe J. |
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No matter what happens to the robot we learned our lesson and we had fun. That's what matters. |
David Guzman |
techtiger1 |
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Fire and smoke are great if you're into Battlebots, but we like to avoid them in FIRST competitions. |
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Elgin Clock |
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May your shirts be full of buttons, yours inspiration be plentiful, and your error messages be few. |
Barry Bonzack |
Jaine Perotti |
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May the road accelerate in the +Z direction, and the wind always be from -Y (modernized Irish blessing). |
KenWittlief |
Jaine Perotti |
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hmmm... big open space between arena and pits... thousands of poof balls...thousands of high school kids hopped up on sugar and robotics.... sounds a little dangerous. |
Courtneyb1023 |
Billfred |
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Don't you know anything about programming? It's a black box; you don't need to know how it works. |
Chriszuma |
Billfred |
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oooh tight leather bumpers...sexy! |
Nuttyman54 |
Michelle Celio |
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Yes, I think we can all agree that bad people suck. |
Joe Johnson |
Tristan Lall |
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Since our team is in possession of the school, we have no restrictions on how late we can be there. So our teams are often practicing into the wee hours of the morning. Also, the school board uses "the breeze" for storage of high jump mats, so it's a great place to nap. :) |
Karthik |
Ian Curtis |
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I give props to your programmers and programming mentors.
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Sgraff_SRHS06 |
Kristian Calhoun |
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Inspectors are your friends and are there to make sure you are safe and legal to compete. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Andy Baker |
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your bot brings all the boys to the yard. |
looneylin |
Andy Baker |
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No offense, but telling the Killer Bees they should do something is like telling Micheal Jordan how to dunk a basketball (or Lebron James for you young'ens who don't know who Michael Jordan is)...
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Don Wright |
Eric Yahrmatter |
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The students that I have known in FIRST over my 8 years of involvement have been far more inspired by the competition and some of the jaw dropping creations of "elite" teams than by anything that we made ourselves. |
MattB703 |
Karthik |
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These are the moments you will bring with you the rest of your life, enjoy them! |
KathieK |
Jon K. |
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Now, our team did meet, but there wasn't much inspiring going on. Unless you call pegging me with more darn poof balls exciting. |
Paul Copioli |
Billfred |
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And trust me, the very last thing you want to see is me with time on my hands and access to power tools. |
dlavery |
ForgottenSalad |
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I almost forgot the biggest advantage of all!
Three times as many people get to hear me and Karthik sing at 2 am!
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Derek Bessette |
Beth Sweet |
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I don't care if students, engineers, my aging grandmother, or a pack of monkeys builds the robot...as long as at least one student walks away inspired then the goal of FIRST has been reached. |
Andy Grady |
Andy Baker |
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You can make unfounded guesses, but chances are you'll come off looking like a moron. Let's try and avoid that. |
Karthik |
RogerR |
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Are we really that close-minded that we have to insult other teams that deviate from what we percieve to be right? Giving an opinion and insulting someone are far from each other. |
Amanda Morrison |
Karthik |
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FIRST competitions are a microcosm of real world engineering projects. |
KenWittlief |
Cody Carey |
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Real projects have good and bad aspects, problems that must be dealt with, and lots of things that dont make any sense from your side of the fence. |
KenWittlief |
Cody Carey |
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I respect each member of any FIRST team that is truly trying to help students…how they choose to do so is up to them. |
Jason Kixmiller |
Stu Bloom |
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Just because a robot looks good and just because it is very well made does not mean that students were not involved in creating it. |
Ryan Dognaux |
Karthik |
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Without the game, there is no FIRST ... period. |
Paul Copioli |
Jack Jones |
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So Love your robot, and it will love you. |
Not2B |
Joe J. |
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You have accomplished and learned more in the past six weeks than...a majority of people in the country. Be proud of your machine. Don't kick it to the gutter. Stand behind it. Believe in it. Give it your all. Take pride in your robot. :) |
sanddrag |
Madison |
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We want to be a positive force in our community, and maybe to encourage our country’s best and brightest to go to work for the ones who’ve put themselves in harm’s way. |
Jack Jones |
Billfred |
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The rules are the rules, but if the rules get so ridiculous some of us may choose not to play anymore and that is the bigger shame.
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Paul Copioli |
Karthik |
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Look at the success of the Banebot's gearboxes this year. Cheap, light, small, and a lot of people are using them, even though their quality may be a bit questionable... Make a similar gearbox for a drivetrain (with a bit more robustness) and I think you've got a winner. |
Ben Piecuch |
AdamHeard |
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I have no defined complaints, and I have no solution. I simply have mixed feelings. |
Andrew Blair |
Rick TYler |
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The amount of sense this rule makes is irrelevant. It is still the rule, and breaking this rule violates something that i'm sure all of you have heard of. Does gracious professionalism ring a bell?
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Kate00 |
Karthik |
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The gearbox can be anything, just as long as it weighs less than 0 lbs, and yes, I'm talking about negative weight here. |
NoodleKnight |
Veselin Kolev |
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Use the mentor to lay down the law. They're not there to be your friends they're there to keep the kids focused on the job at hand. |
Koko Ed |
Billfred |
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It really is up to us to stand up for these principles so when we sell it to the general public we're not just feeding them some line because if we don't believe it, why should they? |
Koko Ed |
Billfred |
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I think it's important to keep FIRST's most important award as the top point getter [in Fantasy FIRST]. It's help reinforce that the Chairman's award, Engineering Inspiration and Woodie Flowers award are actually important and FIRST is about more than just the robots.
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Koko Ed |
Levin571 |
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A well-working FIRST robot can be charismatic. People are attracted to it. Teams rally behind it. Little kids stare with wide eyes. Relatives say to their friends "look at what my niece helped invent". This is an awesome thing.
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Andy Baker |
Karthik |
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Joe is a great sport and this was a good moral booster after a grueling weekend. How many opportunities do you get to play William Tell with a Regional WFA Winner? :) |
The Lucas |
Billfred |
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CAD is the oxygen for engineering. |
Bharat Nain |
Daniel Brim |
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"It's not a bug, it's an unlisted feature." |
Barry Craig |
CmptrGk |
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"It's not a bug, it's an unlisted feature." |
Barry Craig |
jon-s |
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"It's not a bug, it's an unlisted feature." |
Barry Craig |
GMeyer |
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Call it confidence, call it ego, call it what you want, but the fact of the matter is you need to be humble or someone will humble you. |
Dan Richardson |
Ian Curtis |
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Yes, I have lost it! |
Alan Anderson |
Kyle Love |
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I know the code works, I wrote it! It must be a hardware problem.
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buss |
Michelle Celio |
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Every thing is a hammer except for the screw driver which is a chisel. |
BradL |
trezelle2 |
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TIME is the one commodity you cannot buy more of. |
Andy Brockway |
Jaine Perotti |
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