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There are NO old, bold electrical engineers! |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Richard Wallace |
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First and foremost, teach which end is the hot one on a soldering iron. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
DonRotolo |
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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 |
ChrisH |
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We are all on a big team named FIRST |
Al Skierkiewicz |
BBnum3 |
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Our "gracious professionalism" credo insists that we make decisions that are based solely on the desire to inspire and recognize science and technology using robot construction and competition as a vehicle. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
EricS-Team180 |
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When we stop asking ourselves the hard questions, whether as team leaders or in life, then we are failing. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
DonRotolo |
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Don't fight success. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
dlavery |
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You won't find anything in school that says you have to share ideas or strategy with your football rivals. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Molten |
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I am proud whenever I turn to a team during inspections and say "OK I just need two signatures here and I will go get your sticker, you passed!" |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Richard Wallace |
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If your robot can't play at least two matches on one battery, your mechanical design and/or driver strategy needs some rethinking. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
dlavery |
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Too often teams forget that pretty isn't always good. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
EricVanWyk |
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Can I help it if I check Chief Delphi before I look at the Team Updates? |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Richard Wallace |
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Sometimes an aggravating season is the most educational. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Jimmy Cao |
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Even our greatest idols make mistakes. The good ones, move on and continue to do great things. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Akash Rastogi |
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Inspect every connection after every match. Use your eyes, ears and nose. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
JohnBoucher |
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I know that this might be a foreign concept but teams help each other out all the time. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
David Brinza |
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I am alive today because I can't hold onto things. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
RoboDesigners |
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Your robot is trying to talk to you, all you have to do is listen. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
IndySam |
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It shows more than anything, that there are students out there that want to learn, to do better, to improve their own lives and those around them. Thankfully, FIRST is there to help them realize some of their goals. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Libby K |
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While many teams like to go fast, only a select few do it well. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
AustinSchuh |
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I believe youth is contagious. I want to catch as much as I can! |
Al Skierkiewicz |
IndySam |
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Really, there are very few things in life as beautiful as a person's face when they acquire knowledge. I never tire of it. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
IndySam |
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We, as mentors, receive our greatest reward when our students become role models and give of their time to others in need. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Taylor |
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There is one unbreakable and unwritten law in FIRST, don't make it hard for your alliance partners to play. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
CalTran |
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I am sorry if something was missed at your regional, it will be checked at this event. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
KathieK |
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Your students are my idols. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Taylor |
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I am committed to this program because I know it works. It gets more students (than the school average) into college, it makes better adults of the students we mentor, it makes better employees of the mentors that participate, and it makes better schools in our communities. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
washedout |
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Once I see that it is black with aluminum ends, I only care about the inside. Sort of like Oreo's. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
billbo911 |
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The robot is talking to you, you must listen to find out what might be wrong. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
rsisk |
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All screws are not created equal. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Walter Deitzler |
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Boy you guys try to make my job harder every year. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Hallry |
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The imbalance and vibration is telling you something, you are not listening. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
theawesome1730 |
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Just because you haven't witnessed parts leaving the flywheel yet, doesn't mean it won't happen. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
theawesome1730 |
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So is it important to try? Without a doubt. Does it become frustrating to not win? Most certainly. Should you stop trying? Never! |
Al Skierkiewicz |
avanboekel |
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1. If I had a nickel for every time I heard "But we passed at XXXX regional" I would have retired a long time ago. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
CalTran |
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SWARF is evil! |
Al Skierkiewicz |
cgmv123 |
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If you think that teams would never bypass the rules or do something unsafe (intentional or unintentional), I suggest you spend a weekend as an inspector. Every bad scenario that you can think of, we have seen. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Ian Curtis |
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Guys,
Can we agree that "we used it in the past" is not a response.
Thanks. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Brian C |
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There is nothing that compares to the smell of burning flesh, especially when it is your own. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Invictus3593 |
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A charged battery beats a dead battery any day. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
techtiger1 |
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Al's Murphy's law corollary...If it can go wrong, it will on Einstein |
Al Skierkiewicz |
plnyyanks |
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To go a step further, to be "steam punk", electrics would need to be powered from a steam turbine operated dynamo but electric wiring would still be required to follow all rules as they would apply. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Billfred |
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By the way why do all american's spell Colour wrong?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? |
akoscielski3 |
CalTran |
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I find this ironic. In English class our teacher's tell us how there is symbolism and such, and we don't understand it or think its there. Then FIRSTer's get a Game Hit, and we think EVERYTHING is a symbol and has some significance. |
akoscielski3 |
Hallry |
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IT'S LIKE FIRSTmas CAME EARLY THIS YEAR!!!
THANKS VEXPro! |
akoscielski3 |
CalTran |
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Some of them look like phone numbers... LETS START CALLING THEM ALL! |
akoscielski3 |
Walter Deitzler |
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Also you NEVER need to apologize for asking questions. Asking questions is how you learn. |
akoscielski3 |
Abhishek R |
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We must remember: if you're reading this comment right now you already "get it." |
akeisic |
Chris is me |
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"If I had a nickel for every time our robot actually worked, I'd have one whole nickel. It was fail. Epic fail." - lol, a team at the NYC FTC tourny |
Akash Rastogi |
Dowjonesbotics |
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FIRST- its a pandemic in all our schools. |
Akash Rastogi |
wendymom |
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