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Gracious professionalism is competing with a team one minute, and helping them fix their robot the next. It is cheering for FIRST, rather than just your team, and most importantly: it is looking at the future and saying, "Together, we can do that" |
WakeZero |
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Heck, every human being has the potential to change the world, as long as the world still exists. |
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All robots can be defeated with strategy. |
Alexander McGee |
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Progress should never made at the expense of the past. |
Koko Ed |
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There are always going to be tough calls, and you just have to trust in your officials to do the right thing. |
Jeff Waegelin |
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I do this stuff because...well first inspired me to become me. I now understand who i am better and what i want to do. |
Marygrace |
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Bottom line is I love FIRST and what it stand for. Hold nationals in a corn field on old crates and I'll support it!
If the FIRST staff is reading, Thank you for all the hard work you do! |
Gene F |
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It is amazing how much a person's participation in FIRST can shape his/her character. |
Jupee |
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I think another really awsome thing about FIRST can be summed up by what Dan, the Wildstang operator, said when they won nats: "I built that!" I mean, the feeling of satisfaction you get knowing that something you created can perform such unbelievable tasks is amazing. |
Jupee |
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Students design and build it, the engineers/mentors are there to guide us when we stray off the path. A great way to learn, a great way to mentor, a great way to grow. |
chellyzee93 |
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I guess it's true, 'There is no replacement for displacement'. |
Andy A. |
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We all need to remember to be careful at these competitions. Danger lies in the most unexpected (and comical) places. |
Alexander McGee |
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Sometimes you don't need a lot of power, just the will to move. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
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we've got three years to perfect it. And then... who knows? |
Amanda Morrison |
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Understand that not only can you learn from other experienced engineers, but also mechanics, farmers, and craftsmen. |
Andy Baker |
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As engineers we should aspire to create, not destroy. If this is the case, why would we want to create machines with the sole purpose to destroy?
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WakeZero |
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I believe that FIRST in itself is a reward. |
link871 |
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Woody, If there is any chance your reading this ... you've changed my life. |
Gope |
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I once heard someone say that Dean is "building an army of engineers." I disagree. I think he is building an army of the informed. |
Gope |
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FIRST has always been less than just a school activity for me and more of a way of everyday life.
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Amanda Morrison |
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FIRST is unlike every other organization or every other robot competition because it begs to you collaborate; it encourages you to be a better person through the help of others. |
Amanda Morrison |
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Thats what makes FIRST so unique how culture and the time is reflected through our bots, but at the same time we all get along...with no problem. |
Dan Richardson |
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...regardless of anything that happens, there should be no booing at competitions, only cheers. True, many of us want to win, but in the end, all of us are working to expand FIRST and to promote the inspiration and recognition of science and technology through gracious professionalism. |
Aignam |
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This easy world of friends, of people that you can talk to for hours on end without knowing one another? That's FIRST. |
Keith Chester |
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... poets, novelists, songwriters, these people are word engineers. |
MissInformation |
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With people from the high northeast, mid east, mid west and far west all in one hotel room, we had the time of our lives simply by sitting there.
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Keith Chester |
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You are becoming the leaders of tomorrow by leading today. |
Chris Fultz |
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FIRST is different... we commute, journey, and make pilgramage to attend our events. Something that is expensive and exclusive.
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Erin Rapacki |
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The fact of the matter comes down to this: No matter what you are interested in, you can always encourage others. |
Amanda Morrison |
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UFH has substance. It puts the I in FIRST. |
Andy Baker |
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Thank you to all of the mentors, You ARE changing the future. |
chellyzee93 |
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Robotics. Seems to be the answer to a lot of things I don't do. |
Keith Chester |
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Why is it OK to be "elitist" when we select people to be on a team to hit rocks with sticks, but not OK when we try to reach the special group of students that embody the intellectual capital that will define the future of this country? |
dlavery |
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Two students with no clue but enough dedication to work on something is always better than one expert who doesn't care enough not to leaveit until the last day. |
Matt Krass |
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I think that's what they think you will think, therefore you are thinking what they want you to think. |
Wetzel |
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I personally think any student should be allowed to participate, as long as he/she is helpful and active. FIRST, to me, is about inspiration, not elitism. |
Aignam |
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I'm here to unintentionally offer insightful quotes. |
Jeff Waegelin |
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But if FIRST followed a "truth in advertising" philosophy for the registration kits, they would contain six cannisters labeled: "Stress", "Anxiety", "Confusion", "Insomnia", "Dietary Inadequacy", "Unbalanced Priorities"
And a really big seventh one labeled "Fun" :) |
dlavery |
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FIRST teams are made of people - students and mentors. In my humble opinion, it doesn't make one iota of difference if the name of the sponsoring organization or the name of the school changes over time. |
dlavery |
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I love FIRST because it makes the dreams of tomorrow seem so much closer. |
WakeZero |
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I love first because of the late nights, the unparralleled stress, the excitement, the emotion. Because of the close defeats, the close victories. Because of the pride, the sense of accomplishment, the feeling of embettering the world. But most of all, because of you, the other teams. |
Keith Chester |
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I don't get what all you people have done wrong to make the drills have so many problems. |
Cory |
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Life is totally random and there's nothing you can do to change that. |
kristen |
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FIRST *is* about winning, and it has made many of us winners... I am glad to be a part of it. |
Andy Baker |
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Building a 'bot is kinda like washing your hair, but instead of "rinse, lather, repeat"... you should "engineer, test, repeat". |
Andy Baker |
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My point is that there seems to be a trend in FIRST in which people are saying "who cares about the robots, let's inspire the students." What I'm saying is, it's the robots that inspire the students. |
Chris Hibner |
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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 |
KenWittlief |
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when you think you are here to compete against other teams, thats when bad things start happening... |
KenWittlief |
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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. |
KenWittlief |
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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. |
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