Wow. Sounds like a very quick talk.
Adm. Hopper came to my 6th grade class and handed out nanoseconds. Wish my mom hadn’t cleaned out my bedroom when I went off to college…
I have a big issue, with two of these fields transitioning to Einstein it gives those fields an unfair advantage to seating to watch the final matches, and the two fields will need to be next to each other and if they have them facing the VIP section like the last few years we will not be able to fit 600 teams worth of spectators to see both fields
While the “best” seats may be taken I don’t see a huge issue finding seats. The EJ Dome seats 66,000. If they use half of it that is still 1/3 of the floor space it should have sight lines for roughly 26,500 (half of the seats can be filled and then subtracting 6700 for the luxury seating that is unavailable for teams) that still gives teams the ability to bring 40something people to sit with them. Some bring more, some bring less.
Thinking more it could be worse to be in those seats for divisionals, you may have to clear seats for judges and wristbands teams, so do you watch your divisional finals from prime seats, or give that up to secure the best seats for Einstein?
That would be a very nice problem to have …
I always remembered them based off DNA nucleotides: ATGC, except the T was an N.
I like three of the four choices. Can we please change Tesla to someone who didn’t push for the elimination of undesirables
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I’d love for us to qualify and get on the new Hopper or Carver Division 
I think the merits of these scientists’ works is what should be considered rather than a few of their ideological views. If you read that article, I highly suggest you read the source article written by Tesla that they pulled their quotes from. It’s fascinating to read predictions by people from 80 years ago.
He even talks about robots:
“I actually constructed “robots.” Today the robot is an accepted fact, but the principle has not been pushed far enough. In the twenty-first century the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. There is no reason at all why most of this should not come to pass in less than a century, freeing mankind to pursue its higher aspirations.”
If only we knew what those ‘higher’ aspirations were…
Read his article and decide for yourself. I don’t have an opinion on Tesla’s views one way or the other, but I detest articles of the nature of “This person is good/bad because of this quote we found”. Read the source material and come to your own conclusion.
What about moving Einstein to FTC, and having Edison and Tesla as the new E1/E2 fields.
Of course, music would be obligatory AC/DC…
It isn’t fair to history to have an Edison/Tesla without a Morgan/Westinghouse (judging rooms, maybe?).
My team would flip if we got into Hopper. We even named a robot after her!
I was hoping for Ada Lovelace. Would be cool when our team from Byron got assigned to the Lovelace field. (Who can spot the connection first ? )
The choosing of Grace Hopper is interesting… I hope there aren’t any BUGS (if you know your history, you’ll get the joke). Does that mean there will be FRC libraries for COBAL now?
I hope I get assigned to Hopper field. I might have to cut out some moths and hide them about the area…
Outstanding! 95 did the same in 2000. The name kept getting mangled by the field announcer into Grass Hopper, and it stuck no matter what we did. The next year people were still calling us the Grasshopper team, so we rebranded to it.
I really hope if we qualify for champs we get Hopper division.
I like the selections but it would have been really nice if Lise Meitner had been honored. She should have won the Nobel prize for a variety of reasons not the least of which was that she was a Jewish female scientist doing work in Germany in the 1930’s… didn’t get the recognition she deserved.
I am happy that these four were honored as our field choices though.