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you know the FIRST season is never over . . it just pauses a while so you can get some sleep. |
Stuart |
Jeff Waegelin |
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FIRST is the only high-school sport where everyone can become a pro |
David Brinza |
Jeff Waegelin |
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Just remember that you can get just as much inspiration from making a simple system's details work really well as you can from just making a complex system work... |
Rob |
Jeff Waegelin |
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It is NOT possible to fail within FIRST.
It IS possible to fail within the competition (whatever your criteria for failure may be). |
JVN |
Jeff Waegelin |
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When it comes to FIRST (you've all heard the cliche) -- we're all winners.
When it comes to the competition: to the engineering design challenge, we're NOT all winners -- some solutions are better than others. |
JVN |
Jeff Waegelin |
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Screwing up is part of the game. Iterating, testing, and analyzing your failures separates the great from the average. |
Jon Stratis |
Jeff Waegelin |
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Don't be in a rush to build a robot until you know what robot it is you need to build. |
Chris Fultz |
Jeff Waegelin |
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It is easier than you'd think to get yourself crossed off a draft list. I advise my teams, "Be the team you'd want to partner with." |
Joe Johnson |
Jeff Waegelin |
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I think that in general people should worry more about what they are doing, and less about what others are doing. That goes for a lot more than FIRST. |
pfreivald |
Jeff Waegelin |
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If my counts are correct, during the official matches 141,077 points were scored, and a minimum of 28,746 frisbees were successfully shot into goals. All without a single decapitation, severed limb, or even one porpoise becoming accidentally entangled in the nets. |
dlavery |
Jeff Waegelin |
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So, we should have respect for each other regardless of whether we are building our robot with a Waterjet or a Hacksaw. Construction methods will vary widely, but honoring your competitors should be universal. |
OZ_341 |
Jeff Waegelin |
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Scoring ringers is going to be like dating. While a select few will master it with relative ease, the vast majority will need quite a bit of time to refine their skills to an acceptable level. |
artdutra04 |
Jeff Rodriguez |
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The code won't compile if you violate the rules of the programming language...but English is more robust, it seems to work pretty well no matter how we engineering nerds mangle it! |
MrForbes |
Jeff Rodriguez |
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I am definitely not a battery or battery charging expert (far from it) but I do know enough to be dangerous (I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night)... |
Don Wright |
Jeff Rodriguez |
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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 |
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... the real mark of integrity is doing the right thing even when nobody is watching. |
DonRotolo |
Jeff Rodriguez |
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Hopefully LMFAO will cross paths with FRC71. They've been shufflin' since 2002. |
Taylor |
Jeff Rodriguez |
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Purpose over pimpness is a policy that we are trying to adhere to. |
santosh |
Jeff K. |
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lets get FIRST in every home around the world, and a robot in every school. |
Rohith Surampudi |
JC-75 |
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AND we had to walk uphill both ways to get to our shops!
And we liked it that way! |
Andy A. |
JBotAlan |
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Wait hold the phone. Do you mean its physically possible to not spend time on robotics during the season?!!! Too much.......for brain......to compute!...goes against.....beliefs........aaaaarrrrrrghhhhhh!!!
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BuddyB309 |
JBotAlan |
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We score 8 out of 10 every match. Oh wait, that's just what it does in theory. ;) Man, I wish that theory worked. |
Chriszuma |
JBotAlan |
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They can either incorporate the suggestions in this thread, go totally against them, or even make us all write code on banana peels with our fingernails. |
Andy Baker |
JBotAlan |
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Of course, the banana might mean nothing. It could just mean that Dave needs more potassium in his diet. :) |
KathieK |
JBotAlan |
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However I did tell my wife I wanted to lose 20lbs of ugly fat quickly. She told me to cut off my head. Go figure. |
Ed Coleman |
JBotAlan |
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I am specifically looking for Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Nevada, California, Florida, ... oh heck, all of the rest. |
Rosiebotboss |
JBotAlan |
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Mind you... if your ball kicker has as much energy stored up as a trackball launcher, you ought to be able to kick balls up into the stands. |
dtengineering |
JBotAlan |
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There's the problem!! The #1 reason to blame the programmers: They always forget to grease their code. :rolleyes: |
Jack Jones |
JBotAlan |
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I suppose you need to let the kiddies (including Copioli) win a few now and then. |
Andy Baker |
Jay Trzaskos |
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But we all just have to do what we can and are willing to, to keep our teams going. |
Adrienne E. |
Jay Trzaskos |
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"John V-Neun - The Thing /
Ken Patton - Mr. Fantastic"
I don't think a better description of these two people have ever been posted on ChiefDelphi. |
Amanda Morrison |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Let's see some love for these fine people. Let's give it up for the refs. |
Andy Baker |
Jay Trzaskos |
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If everyone spent half as much time reading and understanding the rules as they do complaining, arguing, and disagreeing about rules, we might not even be having this discussion. |
AmyPrib |
Jay Trzaskos |
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These two options can both be used effectively to create a wonderful experience for the students, but limiting them to one area is like taking a globe, slicing it in half, and saying, "You can only explore this half." |
Alex Golec |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Oh man...
20% skinnier, 40% dorkier, ... if that's what turns into one of our best mentors, I REALLY need to find a new hobby. ;) |
Rich Kressly |
Jay Trzaskos |
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srawls: Look, all I did was say "Hi, my name is John V-Neun" and it just happened... |
dlavery |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Although it took me a little while to find my niche in the program, every moment spent has been one great memory after another. |
Amanda Morrison |
Jay Trzaskos |
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If people really want to see "better" refereeing, they should see what they can do to help FIRST make better. |
petek |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Reffing a FIRST event is unlike being an ump or a ref at any other event. Where else is a game invented each year and over 1000 teams play this game within 3 months of its birth? |
Andy Baker |
Jay Trzaskos |
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There are so much more things to be worked on and are more beneficial to FIRST and FIRSTers than green dots by someone's name. |
tiffany34990 |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Now THAT's the way FIRST is supposed to work :) ! |
Stu Bloom |
Jay Trzaskos |
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We do have a good time.
Mr. Bill |
Bill Beatty |
Jay Trzaskos |
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I don't know about the rest of you but our robot was 100% built by team 226. Our team consists of students, parents, teachers, engineers, and alumni. |
Matt Reiland |
Jay Trzaskos |
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I've been busier than a hog farmer at feedin' time. |
Andy Baker |
Jay Trzaskos |
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first robotics is a ten |
Hiteak |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Your not a robot (and they aren't perfect either) |
Conor Ryan |
Jay Trzaskos |
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I dunno, with those Chucks, I'd be inclined to say he out-dresses the better part of DC... |
Nuttyman54 |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Personally, I think the solution involves looking at the past. |
Billfred |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Guess i don't know what the secret weapon is, but i bet if it can be wedge shaped it is. |
Chris |
Jay Trzaskos |
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To ANY Robowrangler students reading this thread:
If any of you ask me about the game hint, at any time, you will be assigned 4 hours of shop cleaning duty during week 1. No exceptions. |
JVN |
Jay Trzaskos |
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