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Indianagineers! (n.: In-di-ae-nah-jih-nir: any resident of Gary, Indiana, or it's suburbs, who is trained in the use or design of machines or engines, or in other areas such as electrical or chemical technology) |
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Steal from the best, and then invent the rest! |
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Lawyers find loopholes. Engineers find solutions. For which would you rather be known? |
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Don't over analyze every possibility. Studying a problem too much doesn't help any more than not studying it enough. |
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Words mean what words mean. If your robot is sitting on the ball, then by definition it is not hanging from the bar. NO 50 point bonus. |
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You can either suck up a lot of oxygen, or you can contribute to our communal knowledge. The choice is yours. |
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Edison was once asked "how do you come up so many good ideas?" to which he responded "for every good idea, I have 99 bad ideas first." |
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After the norovirus outbreak at VCU, we had our entire team sterilized. Oh, wait, that doesn't sound right... |
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Which meant that I was completely unprepared when the congealing large globules suddenly accelerated back towards me at 64 ft/sec/sec. |
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Greg McCoy |
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Duh! Sometimes the simplest answers are the best ones!
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Jessica Boucher |
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Gerardo?!!?! Auugghh! Dave says "that's NOT pimp!!" |
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David Kelly |
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...several people have told my that my brain has been oxygen-starved since at least 1975. |
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Mike Ciance |
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No, Dave says "that's PUMP" |
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Billfred |
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And then have FIRST throw a copy of the Atkins diet book in with each kit...
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Michael Leicht |
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... Imagine NOT being able to count on certain things to stay the same from year to year... It makes you wonder what sort of sick, twisted mind would do such a thing to all those innocent teams out there... |
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Katie Reynolds |
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Just call me conservative. |
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Andy Baker |
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I feel like I need to rinse out my brain with drain cleaner |
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Billfred |
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They have obviously figuered out something special. I want to learn from them. |
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As Grandma used to say, "empirical data is better than no data at all." |
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RogerR |
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With a one-on-one-on-one-on-one-on-one game it would be really easy. |
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Coming between me and my Hawaiian shirts would be like trying to get between Dean and denim. |
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but who knows what you might want to try next? |
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note to self: MUST try harder to be funnier... |
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A great mentor guides without giving the answers, teaches through discovery, demonstrates without lecturing, provides support from backstage, observes without hovering, and leads by example. |
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Jeff Waegelin |
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I knew that the students on our team really understood what FIRST was all about when, two years later, our unofficial team motto changed from "we want to BEAT Chief Delphi" to "we want to BE Chief Delphi." |
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Billfred |
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"Building the technology of tomorrow - sometime late tonight!" |
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Bcahn836 |
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And if in the end the students are inspired and more of the public becomes aware of the program, and people gain more appreciation for engineering, how can that not be a good thing? |
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Billfred |
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Is all your information based on hearsay and miscellaneous posts by other people that don't know what they are talking about? |
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Amanda Morrison |
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I always mean what I say. I just don't always say what I mean. |
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Billfred |
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The kick-off is your opportunity to finally open the REALLY BIG box that has been sitting under the tree. |
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Tom Bottiglieri |
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And who is to say what is the mean? Do I mean the mean? Or even the average? Or am I just being mean (or average, which could be my mean)? |
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shyra1353 |
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just a gentle reminder not to limit yourself to just one viewpoint - every problem can and should be examined from different angles |
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Steve W |
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The rules also never explicitly say that I can't park a Boeing 747 right in the middle of the play field and use it as an obstacle for the other alliance. But after a little thought, something tells me that I probably should not do it. |
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Billfred |
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Every now and then, the judicious application of a modicum of common sense can make all the difference in the world. |
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Billfred |
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If you are stupid about this and violate the rules, and thereby cause your alliance to lose a match, then your alliance partners will gang up on you and violate your robot. |
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Andy Baker |
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Jeez, I love my job! :) |
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Jaine Perotti |
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Rules from prior years DO NOT APPLY to this year! |
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(OK, now that I have said this, just watch someone like Kevin Watson have a working solution by this Friday... :yikes: ) |
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Matt Krass |
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If I am going to give away six dozens tasty treats without allowing any for myself, I have to make sure that the challenge is really worth it! |
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Billfred |
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That seems like a pretty cool idea! Who'da thunk o' dat?! :rolleyes: |
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kjohnson |
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If you water it and nurture it and fertilize it and put it out in the sunlight, it might just grow up to be a big lathe... :) |
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CmptrGk |
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Ahh! I see that you discovered the "CMD_FLING_RECEIVER_RADIO_ACROSS_ROOM" command in the robot scripting language! Nicely done! |
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Billfred |
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Even when the system is "really good" it can always be tweaked a little to make it even better. |
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Jaine Perotti |
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Was it supposed to go all sparkly and smokey like that? |
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Billfred |
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They improvised. They overcame. They persevered. And they succeeded. ... I cannot remember being more proud of a group of students with which I have been associated. |
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Jaine Perotti |
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Is it legal? Yes.
Is it Graciously Professional? Yes.
Is it smart? No. |
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Beth Sweet |
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You can be legal and be graciously professional, but still be dumb. |
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phrontist |
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I love it when there is someone that obviously "gets it". |
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Billfred |
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I also hate it when I keep seeing this message: "You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Andy Baker again." |
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If something on your robot isn't working, then why don't you take the responsibility to fix it? Isn't that what being a TEAM is all about? |
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If we can figure out how to make a robot in six weeks, a little thing like personality conflict should be easy to overcome. - Al Skierkiewicz [more] 
