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Go to Post You know you are a true tech geek when you end up on top of the Sears tower, and the only pictures you post are the ones of the radio antennae. ;) Tom Line Jay O'Donnell
Go to Post Never allow your students to get away with an answer that amounts to "because it's better". Have them prove it to the best of their ability, and when they're wrong, ask them to figure out why they're wrong. Tom Line rsisk
Go to Post My wife just looked over my shoulder, shook her head, and said "Only engineers...." Tom Line MechEng83
Go to Post I've got a couple team members who have an incredible knack for destroying robot parts... Tom Line dictionaria13
Go to Post Tell the truth - that's really a small barbecue grill on that robot isn't it. Tom Line frcguy
Go to Post FIRST is like riding a bike. At first it may seem hard and confusing, but after a few tries you get the hang of it and its smooth sailing from then on out. Tom Bottiglieri Billfred
Go to Post No, I dont mix robots and girls. Tom Bottiglieri Billfred
Go to Post Supporting a FIRST team, only paying 10 bucks, and possibly winning a segway... what could be better! :) Tom Bottiglieri Elgin Clock
Go to Post Use these tools as a starting point, not as an end product. Tom Bottiglieri BandChick
Go to Post All I know is I have fun building a robot, and I have fun competing with it. If I get an award, I'm happy. If I don't, then too bad. Either way, I'm coming back next year. Tom Bottiglieri Jessica Boucher
Go to Post We are all just pawns in FIRST's quest for global domination. Tom Bottiglieri Conor Ryan
Go to Post If winning that individual match is more important to you than being there in the first place, then I believe you've got your priorities in the wrong spot. Tom Bottiglieri dlavery
Go to Post You might even learn something! Tom Bottiglieri Billfred
Go to Post Maybe we won't get any motors at all! Rotary Pneumatics, here we come! Tom Bottiglieri Billfred
Go to Post I don't want a carbon copy of your wheels.. I want to improve upon your design. Tom Bottiglieri Ryan Foley
Go to Post I think FIRST is probably close to the farthest you can get from 'gangsta', outscored only by the math team. Tom Bottiglieri Billfred
Go to Post The easiest and most effective way to do this for the Championship event is pre-competition scouting, with statistics. Nothing beats it. Hands down. Period. The End. Nothing's better. Tom Bottiglieri Corey Balint
Go to Post You can never take enough precautions when it comes to safety. Please, be prepared for anything. Tom Bottiglieri Billfred
Go to Post Using a mouse is so 20th century! Tom Bottiglieri Rohith Surampudi
Go to Post Remember, let function drive design, not the other way around. Tom Bottiglieri Kim Masi
Go to Post You Texas boys and your fancy swerve drive. Why don't ya'll come up here to New England? I'm about to saddle me up a skid steer and herd ya'll fellers into a corner. Tom Bottiglieri Pavan Dave
Go to Post If everyone could just worry about how much fun they are having rather than how much they disagree with other teams, the program would be much better off. Tom Bottiglieri Karthik
Go to Post Why is everyone on these boards so obsessed with Segways? Tom Bottiglieri Billfred
Go to Post Does this mean the end of "Spin Around/Dance" autonomous modes? Tom Bottiglieri lukevanoort
Go to Post I can attest that mentoring is probably the most important aspect of this program. Tom Bottiglieri Richard Wallace
Go to Post Even as a "mentor", I am still being mentored by engineers who work with the team. Tom Bottiglieri Andy Baker
Go to Post Unfortunately our team missed out on a great opportunity to "learn from the pros" because we did student-centric things like insisting on having a student field coach. Tom Bottiglieri Jeff Rodriguez
Go to Post We're basically using a two step process: 1. Smoke 2. Mirrors Tom Bottiglieri Anna B.
Go to Post Surprise! There is no ideal alliance. As soon as you think you have a winning strategy, someone WILL figure out how to beat it. Tom Bottiglieri hipsterjr
Go to Post If I had come up with a chokehold strategy, I wouldn't talk about it on Chief Delphi. Tom Bottiglieri Karthik
Go to Post So, you're saying there's a correlation between hard work and success? Who woulda thunk it?! Tom Bottiglieri rtfgnow
Go to Post It would be better as the software person to preach to your team early on for non-reliance on software. Tom Bottiglieri Jared Russell
Go to Post There's no problem another CIM motor wouldn't fix! Tom Bottiglieri thefro526
Go to Post The best way to build a brand is to win. Tom Bottiglieri Meredith Novak
Go to Post Anything that moves sideways is a waste of time. Tom Bottiglieri RogerR
Go to Post If the GDC doesn't want better teams to strap components on to other robots, they should design a game that doesn't require better teams to strap components on to other robots to win. Tom Bottiglieri Pat Fairbank
Go to Post Robot gets bored during practice, wanted to listen to some podcasts. Tom Bottiglieri frcguy
Go to Post Build the wrong robot that aims well or build the right robot that can't aim.... decisions, decisions.... Tom Bottiglieri JesseK
Go to Post An awesome unveiling video is not necessarily an indicator of onfield performance. ToddF Travis Hoffman
Go to Post There will always be a point in your FIRST experience when you realize you can get away with something that is against the rules. It is at that point when you have a choice to make about your own personal ethics, and what sort of example you will set for your students. ToddF Carolyn_Grace
Go to Post We live for those eureka moments. Whether we win or lose competitions, it's those moments when a student's idea makes something just "click" that will stick with them and influence them to become engineers. ToddF sircedric4
Go to Post shhhh...our robot is in a bag now, it won't hurt anyone till the milwaukee wisconsin regional. hopefully it won't be fiesty. don't wake it. Toatekua Jessica Boucher
Go to Post Just wait till Heidi learns video-editing skills. tkwetzel Billfred
Go to Post I don't have enough vacation time for them to start allowing video replay. TJP123 Alan Anderson
Go to Post I tried to write a scouting app and wanted to throw my desk out a window... tjf ctt956
Go to Post Organization is the one skill that can help make *any* workshop work. tjf ctt956
Go to Post So, the game hint is there is no game hint. tindleroot Whippet
Go to Post Andy Baker doesn't go to IRI. IRI comes to Andy Baker. tim_reiher Akash Rastogi
Go to Post You know you have bad field problems if both Dean and Woodie come out to try to fix them... :) tim_reiher Anna B.
Go to Post Well our closest regional is a Hawaii, it's a bit hard for us to drive 8000km (5000 miles) across the pacific... timytamy JackN

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