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Stop. Breathe. Relax. QUIT STATING STUFF THAT YOU DON'T KNOW TO BE TRUE.
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Rich Kressly |
Ian Curtis |
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Big Mike (i'm not big you are all just short ;) ) |
Mike Schroeder |
Ian Curtis |
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I may not like the songs, but I love FIRST! :) |
ScoutingNerd175 |
Ian Curtis |
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I think candids are my best... I'm sneaky with my 12X optical zoom. |
MissInformation |
Ian Curtis |
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By the way, I will be running for office in 2008 .... |
Paul Copioli |
Ian Curtis |
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On a lighter note, I know my team's happy that in our Rookie Year we built the sexiest robot in the world and got the Imagery Award at Nationals :D |
Snappel328 |
Ian Curtis |
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Do not treat Vex and FLL as inferior because they may not get as much exposure as FRC on these boards. Just remember, FLL has seven times more teams than FRC from twenty additional countries. |
artdutra04 |
Ian Curtis |
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[on the 2007 field control software] its crazy -- not only did they sound like the same old sound effects we know and love, but it seemed like they actually occured at the time they were supposed to! :) |
Aidan F. Browne |
Ian Curtis |
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I believe you have the right to develope your own opinion. I would suggest it be based on actual experience and facts. |
Mike Copioli |
Ian Curtis |
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Yes, an expanded FIRST will look far different than it does today. |
GaryVoshol |
Ian Curtis |
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The true beauty is, no matter what the game (Yes, even 2001), we spend these 6 weeks going crazy with design strategy, and trying to figure out a way to work the plot twists that the GDC throws at us...and its a blast. |
Andy Grady |
Ian Curtis |
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Even though our team really digs the Tumbleweed name, the kids normally refer to the robot as the 'Neun-agon'. |
Amanda Morrison |
Ian Curtis |
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I don't fully buy into the 'we're all winners' concept. That is a broad statement that doesn't really say much. How did we become all winners? What did we do to become winners? Pay an expensive registration fee and participate in a robotic competition? |
JaneYoung |
Ian Curtis |
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I don't really care that the best on Curie may or may not be better than Newton, since we're going to spend the rest of the offseason discussing it no matter how the decision fell. |
Jessica Boucher |
Ian Curtis |
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Then as soon as we get the kit loaded into the back of my truck, we ferociously rip it open screaming "How many CIMs!?" |
sanddrag |
Ian Curtis |
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My sister's husband told me when I was just a wee one, "momentum will take you where traction will not." |
Joe Johnson |
Ian Curtis |
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Please drill responsibly! |
IKE |
Ian Curtis |
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321 didn't get picked up today because the front desk of the high school wouldn't let him in! Thank goodness the FedEx driver was nice enough to come back and get it for us! |
Chuck Glick |
Ian Curtis |
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We have tried doing the cha-cha slide on the airplane, but that went away very quickly - it seems that the pilots don't like all the movement in the plane. |
Carol |
Ian Curtis |
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Not all current students are math dummies. Not all 1960's students were math geniuses either. |
Clem1640 |
Ian Curtis |
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The mecanum is like the dress shoe, the treaded wheel is like the athletic shoe. |
Chris Fultz |
Ian Curtis |
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The world is run by those who show up. |
apalrd |
Ian Curtis |
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I remember as a kid thinking how high a team number like 834 was. |
Dancin103 |
Ian Curtis |
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Be realistic in your goals, and relentless in hitting them. |
IKE |
Ian Curtis |
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I think there are a ton of teams that would kill for one let alone three engineering mentors (especially one with the knowledge and experience that Rich Olivera has). |
XaulZan11 |
Ian Curtis |
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As everyone knows, our students don't actually design or build the robot, so to make it look like they were working on it for the video, we hid cookies inside the unfinished frame and turned them loose. It looks believable. |
Mike Soukup |
Ian Curtis |
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I dont think it matters too much what you do, as long as you do something that lets you apply what you're learning in class. |
MrForbes |
Ian Curtis |
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"The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers." |
Tom Ore |
Ian Curtis |
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30 point hang is brutal. Those who say it is easy are not thinking it through or are way smarter than the rest of us ... |
Paul Copioli |
Ian Curtis |
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It's a hunch, based on engineering intuition; there are too many hard-to-quantify variables to do any accurate calculations. Looking for some experimental corroboration or refutation. |
Ether |
Ian Curtis |
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It will be really cool if it works, sad if if doesn't. We got our fingers crossed! |
falconmaster |
Ian Curtis |
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By the end of week six, I'm sick of looking at the robot enough that stuffing it in a bag is rather cathartic...:rolleyes: |
2544HCRC |
Ian Curtis |
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The practical experience that students learn by working with the mentors on a real life problem -- with real life constraints -- helps produce people who are good at those professions. |
MechEng83 |
Ian Curtis |
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The only shame is if you are too proud to ask for help and to learn. |
Mc Kenna |
Ian Curtis |
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Each year that I've been on the team I've thought to myself, "Man we lost some great seniors this year," and each year younger students have stepped up on their own to fill those leadership positions. |
BJC |
Ian Curtis |
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Don't worry about someone stealing your ideas...if they're good ideas, then imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If they're lousy ideas, we'll let you know, so you can work on finding a better idea. win-win! |
MrForbes |
Ian Curtis |
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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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Winning, the objective, the thing you can point to and say "See that? We want to do that. What can we do to make our program better, to improve our chances at that?" is what has grown FIRST from 28 teams in a high school gym to where it is today. |
Joe G. |
Ian Curtis |
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... Better to treat everything like it's about to explode and be wrong than the other way round. |
Bongle |
IKE |
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This game is absolutely *NOT* too difficult, but many teams will make it too difficult by biting off more than they can chew. |
pfreivald |
IKE |
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Action x (Passion + Vision) = Goal |
EricH |
IKE |
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If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room! |
Ian Curtis |
IKE |
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Never should an idea be ridiculed, because ideas are exactly that just an idea. |
Tim Delles |
Imajie |
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You know you're addicted to FIRST when to you: 4's company, 5's a crowd, and 6 is someone off-sides. |
Tetraman |
Imajie |
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I have trouble believing that there's really a regional that isn't fun... |
psquared89 |
Imajie |
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An opportunity is always there waiting to be discovered, we just have to look and then see what we can do to help create change. |
JaneYoung |
Imajie |
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Computers have a nasty habit of doing exactly what you tell them to do instead of what you want them to do. |
KenWittlief |
Imajie |
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Thank you for participating. It'd be a blank website without all of you. :) |
Brandon Martus |
IMDWalrus |
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A thread already exists (and boy, does it exist!) on the topic: |
Billfred |
IndySam |
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Luck *good or bad* and opportunity will always affect what happens to teams. |
Brian C |
IndySam |
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