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When you boil it down, the name “FIRST-a-holic” represents our passion for changing the world, our energy for difficult challenges, and our bravery in facing unknowns. |
Ken Leung |
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I wouldn’t trade this for anything in this world ;-). |
Ken Leung |
JohnBoucher |
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Quitting FIRST was so hard that I felt like I needed a 12 steps program to help me through it. |
Ken Leung |
Koko Ed |
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Don’t choose your hero because they will just teach you with their abilities, but also because they will also teach you with their mistakes. |
Ken Leung |
Arefin Bari |
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Don’t choose to aim for the stars because they mark the peak of our abilities, don’t choose to aim for the stars because it is easy, choose to aim for the stars because it shows the depth of our potential; choose to aim for the stars because it is hard! |
Ken Leung |
RogerR |
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Now please, go have some meaningful discussions that will inspire us all. |
Ken Leung |
Billfred |
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That's is why I raised this question, becuase I do not know all the facts (I doubt anyone does). |
Ken Leung |
Billfred |
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This is a solemn reminder of how fast time goes by with the blink of an eye, that if you don't run to catch up with it, it will catch up with you and sweep you away. |
Ken Leung |
Daisy |
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If you never reach out and experiment with different things, you will never have the courage to reach out again. It's only through experiments and experiences where we get to understand ourselves better. |
Ken Leung |
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If I can make one wish, it would be having Dean and Woodie read one of these writings of mine, so I can tell them "I get it! Give me time and give me inspiration, and one day I will be ready to take over the torch." |
Ken Leung |
Kyle |
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Robotics is about people. It always was, it always will be. What more guidelines do we need? |
Ken Leung |
Mr. Pockets |
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Leadership is demonstrated by initiative, examples, and spirit. Decisions are made by those who show up. The world is whatever you make of it. |
Ken Leung |
Karibou |
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You are joining the greatest family in the world, FIRST, because we all strive to practice GP. |
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Finally, I would like to thank my wife (I hope she remembers me.) To all the FIRST widows out there, THANK YOU! |
Ken Loyd |
Jessica Boucher |
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I guess what I am trying to say is that GP is inside all of us just waiting for a chance to escape. I am sure how the virus spread. I put the blame solely on the shoulders of Chief Delphi. |
Ken Loyd |
nerdcool64 |
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When I encounter Dave at competitions and meetings, I find him to be kind, helpful, almost too nice. When I read his hints, I find him to be EVIL! |
Ken Loyd |
Billfred |
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This just goes to prove there was life before FIRST (but it wasn't as much fun!) |
Ken Loyd |
Jaine Perotti |
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Its not the event that matters - its the preparation for the event that matters! |
Ken Patton |
Steve W |
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Woodie once said he wanted to make our brains hurt. And I *don't* think he was talking about getting beaned by 198 grams of foam.... |
Ken Patton |
Billfred |
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I remember going to Houston in 1998 and seeing a bot that could move sideways. Talk about inspiring... |
Ken Patton |
Karthik |
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If I run into some of your team's student coaches/drivers on the field of battle someday, I still might ask 'em what they're doing after high school. :) |
Ken Patton |
Lil' Lavery |
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I would like to extend my deepest, most sincere thanks to the GDC, for bringing alliances to us in 1999. |
Ken Patton |
Billfred |
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To the people in purple - I am so proud of what you have accomplished as individuals and as a team! |
Ken Patton |
JaneYoung |
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On the other hand, if the tires were marked "NOT FOR FRISBEE SHOOTER USE" I'd be worried. |
Ken Streeter |
Whippet |
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WATER GAME! Always a water game... |
kendra21093 |
Hallry |
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thats like having 24 young men going wild for 2 minutes - thats how much power is available during a match. |
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"at some point in the next six weeks you are going to start feeling like you are involved in a robot building contest. Then you are in serious trouble" -Dean Kamen |
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when you think you are here to compete against other teams, thats when bad things start happening... |
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The [FIRST Robotics] competition is a friendly / gentleman's sort of sport... It is only a forum to put our machines to the test, and see how well we did against what WE set out to do -- not to see which team can build the best robot. |
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If you have to build the best robot to be inspired then we end up with one winning inspired team, and 999 losers. That is not the spirit of FIRST. |
KenWittlief |
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FIRST is like we have traveled to the future, and we dont like what we saw when we got there. So we came back and now we are attempting to alter the future |
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The only basis on which a team should be awarded the chairmans award is the content of the submission, not the way in which it is presented. |
KenWittlief |
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Unless your HS students have earned BSEE and BSME degreees already, how can they lead or run an engineering team? |
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I think these new rules are making the message coming from FIRST perfectly clear - engineering is about what happens between your ears, not what comes out of your deep pockets. |
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We are not here to build robots, or to win a contest, or to travel to cool places or to bring home trophies. we are here to see what a career in engineering and science is like; anything else that happens along the way is frosting on the cake |
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One last thing, if a mechanical part fails on you, sometimes you can get a little bit of noise back into it by yelling at it, kicking it, or pounding on it with your fist. This might put enough back into it so it will work for a few more minutes. |
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when all else fails, try making the bot go slower |
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If we succeed, we succeed as a team
if we fail, we fail as a team
but either way, we are a team - we go home together
and celebrate our accomplishments, whatever they are
and try to learn from our mistakes. |
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FIRST isnt about getting what you deserve, FIRST is about other people seeing potential in us - and giving us an opportunity that we could never have earned on our own
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KenWittlief |
Bharat Nain |
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Do you have to think about FIRST when you get up in the morning?
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KenWittlief |
Bharat Nain |
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There are no guarentees in life. Cherish what you have while you have it. None of us knows what tomorrow will bring. |
KenWittlief |
tribotec_ca88 |
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They really should put warning signs at all entrances: "WARNING! FIRST IS CONTAGIOUS!"
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KenWittlief |
Alex Pelan |
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oh, the prom! I thought you were missing a PROM (Programable Read Only Memory) ...you had me worried for a minute, I dont know if IFI has any spare PROMs. |
KenWittlief |
Katy |
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[Pi day] is an irrational holiday |
KenWittlief |
Daniel Brim |
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When you start thinking of FIRST as a robotic building contest you have left the pavement and you are in deep weeds. |
KenWittlief |
Daniel Brim |
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In the end engineering is what happens between your ears, not what you build with your hands, not what a machine spits out.
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KenWittlief |
Beth Sweet |
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each year the chairmans award is given to the team the judges think deserve it the most, for that year. How can it be any other way? |
KenWittlief |
Billfred |
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Knowledge is power. Know whats coming and you can be ready for it when it happens. |
KenWittlief |
Daniel Brim |
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FIRST is not a destination, its not the reward, its the slingshot that will launch you from where you are, to where you can be. |
KenWittlief |
Josh Hambright |
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Look past the robot. Look past your team. Science and technolgy are studies worth devoting your life too. |
KenWittlief |
shyra1353 |
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Before anyone accuses FIRST of being in the pocket of the sponsoring corporations, they might spend a minute and a half to actually apply some of that critical analytical ability that we are supposed to be demonstrating as educated engineers. - dlavery [more] 
