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Good thing you skipped this year.
You don't need exhaustion to sleep through Recycle Rush. |
Gregor |
Koko Ed |
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Who wouldn't love to see a circular FRC field, on the backs of four elephants, all riding on a gigantic turtle? |
Taylor |
Koko Ed |
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Oh... and congratulations FIRST, for launching the biggest shinny object of distraction just days before FRC kick-off. ;) |
Michael Sperber |
Koko Ed |
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Team 1114 does not design or build ROBOTS. They build AWESOME. |
DonRotolo |
Kpchem |
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...okay, maybe I have a xkcd addiction |
plnyyanks |
Kpchem |
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"I'm not teaching you math, I'm teaching you how to think. Hopefully that'll be useful to you someday..." |
Karthik |
Kpchem |
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You know you've been in FIRST way too long when you can remember all those hints... even down to exact wording... and only have to look up the most recent. |
EricH |
Kpchem |
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They could release an update saying they were going to give every team free puppies and kittens, and many teams would vehemently complain this change was too late to budget dry kibbles into their budget. |
artdutra04 |
Kpchem |
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If you are content with where you are, you have celebrated the right things. If not, perhaps it is time to reconsider... what’s most important to you. |
StephLee |
kramarczyk |
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What is this "non-robotics life" of which you speak? :ahh: |
Karibou |
kramarczyk |
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The stated goals of FIRST are to inspire a culture that values science and technology. Inspiration needs Motivation. What motivates people? Competition. |
Dmentor |
kramarczyk |
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...your mentors are your friends. If you're not sure of something, they probably know the answer to it, and if they don't, they will point you to someone who does. |
Karibou |
kramarczyk |
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I've come to the conclusion that the only way Pat's awesomeness can be explained is.... Pat Fairbank is a cookie. |
Jonathan Norris |
kramarczyk |
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The more women we have as 'rock stars' in FIRST, the more girls we'll see celebrating math and science and the doors they can open. |
JaneYoung |
kramarczyk |
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In the end, people can throw all the stories at me they want, but I'm never going to let mere stories convince me physics is wrong. |
AdamHeard |
kramarczyk |
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I decided I would keep coming and it just kept getting more and more fun. By the time build season started going I couldn't have quit if I wanted to ^_^ |
Mr. Pockets |
kramarczyk |
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Someone tried throwing out a perfectly good fleece blanket! It even had the quadratic formula on it! WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU THROW AWAY THE QUADRATIC FORMULA?? |
Karibou |
kramarczyk |
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The size, speed, and power of full sized FRC robots are much more sublime. People go to the zoo to see the lions and tigers, not the ants. |
Jared Russell |
kramarczyk |
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If said device costs 10x more to manufacture than a simpler solution integrating COTS parts, and only performs 10% better, that's poor engineering. |
Cory |
kramarczyk |
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I like to divide checklists like this into "stuff I have to do before applying power" and "stuff I'll find faster by watching it fail". |
EricVanWyk |
kramarczyk |
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The moral of this story: A healthy respect for the customer, dedication to your job, and a positive outlook can make even the most trivial and monotonous job into a wonderful experience. |
Molten |
kramarczyk |
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Suggesting change is one thing, implementing it is another. |
JaneYoung |
kramarczyk |
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Then use Newton's handy-dandy 2nd law (Force = mass*acceleration) to solve... |
Chris Hibner |
kramarczyk |
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With computers, every once in a while you see something that makes you think "I could have done this, why didn't I think of it? It would have made my life so much easier." Now is one of those times. |
Nadav Zingerman |
kramarczyk |
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We do a disservice as mentors if we simply complain. We must inspire our students by showing them how we rise to the challenge and solve the problems we face. |
Jon236 |
kramarczyk |
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It's never been about the robots. But the robots make an interesting misdirection that we all use. So its ALL about the robots. :rolleyes: |
Foster |
kramarczyk |
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It's good to learn from experience. It's better to learn from somebody else's experience. |
Jay TenBrink |
kramarczyk |
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Nerd harder, be seen doing it... don't care what others think. |
Mr. Lim |
kramarczyk |
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It is easy to be righteous on Chief Delphi, and harder to implement in life. |
DonRotolo |
kramarczyk |
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Pushing match, what pushing match? If they can't catch you they can't push you around. |
IndySam |
kramarczyk |
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You can't learn anything without breaking some stuff. |
DonRotolo |
KrazyCarl92 |
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The only way to make a noticeable shift in OUR culture is if there are a lot of small shifts. |
JVN |
KrazyCarl92 |
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They call us super nerds.
I say thank you :D |
Gregor |
KrazyCarl92 |
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I said it was called FIRST Robotics and the coolest thing I'd seen that day was a 150lb robot balance with another one on a teeter-tooter and and then score basketballs from 30 feet away. |
Siri |
KrazyCarl92 |
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No, I'm not a Superhero...I'm a FIRST Mentor. Common Mistake. |
Mr. Van |
KrazyCarl92 |
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't
assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea.~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
rjbarra |
KrazyCarl92 |
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My goal as a mentor is to make myself irrelevant. Is that possible? Probably not. But this is one place I am willing to aim stupidly high. |
Ian Curtis |
KrazyCarl92 |
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Life is too short to spend 40 hours a week doing something you are not enthusiastic about. |
Karthik |
KrazyCarl92 |
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In 2012, we built our best machine ever. Some visitors to our pit were visibly disappointed to find that our machine was a pile of extruded aluminum and urethane belting, just cleverly arranged and programmed. |
OZ_341 |
KrazyCarl92 |
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It's wrong to scuttle someone else's boat because you don't think it's seaworthy. You probably don't know that what you were seeing will be called a submarine. |
ThatHat |
KrazyCarl92 |
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"If a student CAN do it, a student SHOULD do it." |
Mr. Lim |
KrazyCarl92 |
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As Murphy as my witness, things happen and will continue to happen. |
Pavan Dave |
Kris Verdeyen |
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That goal is going to commit suicide by the end of the regional........so many balls @_@... |
DanDon |
Kristian Calhoun |
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Just remember, FIRST isn't about the robot, just have fun, meet new people, and try to learn something new. Killing yourself with inhumane amounts of pressure just isn't fun for anyone.
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Ian W. |
Kristian Calhoun |
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I'm sure you can come up with something, with a bit of warped thought!
... and if not, warped thinking is what your team's Engineers are for! :) |
kmcclary |
Kristian Calhoun |
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I give props to your programmers and programming mentors.
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Sgraff_SRHS06 |
Kristian Calhoun |
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There can never be enough recognition of a job well done. We can never say enough Thank You's. We can never measure the impact that an inspirational teacher or mentor can make on a student because it's priceless. |
KathieK |
Kristian Calhoun |
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It's a club if you have a bunch of people who hang out and do nothing - It's a team if all you all work together and cooperate to win. |
Tytus Gerrish |
Kristian Calhoun |
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I think that everyone should just take a step back and look at the whole picture, FIRST is a family, not an organization full of regions, we all try to help each other, not 'cause it benefits us, but because it's graciously proffesional. |
Mike Schroeder |
Kristian Calhoun |
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You are not limited by your resources, but by your imagination. |
John Gutmann |
Kristian Calhoun |
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