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I would like the game to be called Sanity. Just for irony's sake. |
Keri Lynne |
JaneYoung |
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At one of the registration days at the beginning of the year I actually made a sign saying: "I'm not smart isn't an excuse". |
Mr. Pockets |
JaneYoung |
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Personally, I'm really not jealous of any good team in FIRST. I'm happy for them, and take a page out of their books to see how we can better impact our students in the future. |
waialua359 |
JaneYoung |
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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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Strive for excellence in everything you do, but also recognize it in others when you see it, rather than try to drag it down. |
Joe G. |
JaneYoung |
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I was proud that there was no whining, no finger pointing and no complaining. |
Vikesrock |
JaneYoung |
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Andy Grady does a great job of running the WayBack machine for us new to FIRST. |
Foster |
JaneYoung |
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Manual labor experience with engineering training is a powerful combination. |
N7UJJ |
JaneYoung |
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And the rest of the team helped them, encouraged them, and made a big deal about how awesome it was that we were competing for the Chairman's Award. |
Carolyn_Grace |
JaneYoung |
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The closest thing to "Senior Mentor" we have is "Team Grandma". :) |
Alan Anderson |
JaneYoung |
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My students want me to confirm if they're only allowed one submission per team? (Apparently they've gotten a sudden wave on linguistic inspiration...) |
Siri |
JaneYoung |
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What really drove us was not our achievements, but our failures. |
BEEKMAN |
JaneYoung |
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By "resources" do you mean money (sponsor or school), school support or permission, build facilities, or mentors? All of these require different solutions. |
Carol |
JaneYoung |
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It is very difficult for a large, inexperienced, impatient group to create order from chaos. |
Wayne TenBrink |
JaneYoung |
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We need to train teams from the very beginning to become self-sustaining...
so we can offer a full experience to FIRST students... |
Bob Steele |
JaneYoung |
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Make the next 20 years great. |
Doug G |
JaneYoung |
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I'm sure someone somewhere worked [I]really hard[/I] on this and I congratulate them for the attempt. Unfortunately, its one of those things that should be taken down and recorded in the company journal as a bad idea. |
Katie_UPS |
JaneYoung |
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So yeah I love the minibot because it was a great vehicle to promote our team, make new friends, and possibly make sure a team makes it past their 1st or 2nd year. |
Mr V |
JaneYoung |
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I saw a big opening in the bees section and asked if we could sit for this match and was told we were welcome to sit there. Your team made space for about 15 of my team members that came with me. |
Debbie |
JaneYoung |
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Now I watch students walk through the halls together as Robotics members. |
MysterE |
JaneYoung |
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Being called coach for the first time by some of my team. My dad was a football player and when I told him that story he teared up a bit. Me? A Coach? |
MysterE |
JaneYoung |
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We excel at making our robots nice and colorful. |
AlecMataloni |
JaneYoung |
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New mentor joins one team and ends up impacting several in the same region. I like that. :) |
Travis Hoffman |
JaneYoung |
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I owe these forums a lot more than $15 for all of the help and friends they have given me. |
Karibou |
JaneYoung |
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I wonder if the GDC had his extraordinary achievements in mind for the 2012 game. |
MagiChau |
JaneYoung |
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Dave, you're going to have quite the motor pool on Mars. :D |
skimoose |
JaneYoung |
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[Goals For 2012]
1. Build on 20 years of hard work.
2. Inspire a new generation so they come back another year.
3. Repeat. |
Koko Ed |
JaneYoung |
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My grades were horrid when I started, but thanks to the mentors and other students, I'm now a straight-A student. |
Bax2996 |
JaneYoung |
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This thread is so done I can almost smell the burnt. |
Chris Fultz |
JaneYoung |
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If students and mentors own their role and are proud of it, the team is stronger as a consequence. |
Madison |
JaneYoung |
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So much energy is wasted complaining (even in this thread) and belittling others (subtly in this thread). You need to engineer an attitude that encourages success through hard work before you engineer the robot. |
PayneTrain |
JaneYoung |
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if you want to repay us for the omni-wheels, use the money to help out a few rookie teams next year. Buy them batteries or help build them bumpers, anything you see fit will be much better than cash back to us. |
AllenGregoryIV |
JaneYoung |
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FIRST is a big family and we‘ll get through this together. |
Gary Dillard |
JaneYoung |
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We’ve been chasing perfection since 2003 in the hopes of catching excellence. |
Karthik |
JaneYoung |
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I think it would be beneficial for us frogs to be in the new hopper division |
zsm150 |
JaneYoung |
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Work hard. Then work even harder.
Work until there is nothing left to work on, then work more. |
RoboChair |
JaneYoung |
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As a team sponsor, we are more concerned with the behavior, attitude and commitment to FIRST ideals than specific performance in the competition. Some of our teams perform well, some struggle, some are in the middle. We support them all in every way we can. |
Chris Fultz |
JaneYoung |
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There will inevitably be enough unintentional failure in any endeavor we take on that adding intentional failure on top of that seems unnecessary. |
Jared Russell |
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Just like it is not all about the robots, it is not all about winning the Chairman's Award. |
Paul Copioli |
Jared Russell |
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GP is a much longer-term investment, yet offers surprisingly high returns. Just like 401(k) plans, the important thing is to keep making contributions even when it seems there's no reward for it. |
ayeckley |
Jared Russell |
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We put our alumni to work. That either benefits all or drives them out for good. :) |
Wayne C. |
Jared Russell |
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There's "FIRST the organization" and then there's "FIRST the vision for the future through a set of ideals". I've grown somewhat skeptical of the former in recent years, but, after 10 years, I'd still throw myself in front of a bus for the latter. |
Rich Kressly |
Jared Russell |
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Sometimes I think all the Game Hint does to us is make us terrible listeners. |
Chris is me |
Jared Russell |
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It would be better as the software person to preach to your team early on for non-reliance on software. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Jared Russell |
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From what I've seen in FIRST, teams that copy generally always learn something from it, and if they don't, the copy they produce is of much lower quality than the original. |
TheOtherGuy |
Jared Russell |
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A winning robot is not a winning robot unless you have winning drivers too. You need the time to develop both. |
Jim Zondag |
Jared Russell |
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If your goal is to win matches... Pick the most capable candidate. If your goal is to change lives... Sometimes you pick those that need the most change. |
IKE |
Jared Russell |
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Be watchful of the "man this is so cool we should do it in build" as I've embarrassingly fallen victim to it so many times before, with varying results. |
Aren_Hill |
Jared Russell |
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When you build a practice robot, you're literally buying time. |
sanddrag |
Jared Russell |
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I also exclusively use FRC team numbers when punching in times for the microwave. |
Calvin Hartley |
Jarren Harkema |
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