So what is the term for a group of Wildstang? A herd? A pride? A flock? A team? Whatever it is, they are definitely awesome to see in their natural habitat. The alpha males are exceptionally impressive.
Quentin,
That is correct. Motorola approached the high school in 1992. I wasn’t part of the team at that time but as I understand, there was a positive response that took a while to coalesce into a viable team. By 1996 a teacher was splitting time between Wheeling and Rolling Meadows High Schools and convinced enough people to include both schools. I became involved late in the 1996 build to assist with video documentation of the robot at Wheeling. My wife and I provided adult support at Wheeling but never saw the robot compete. The same took place in 1997 with additional parent support for animation and much more video work. My first hands on came at the Midwest Regional when an electrical problem developed. I have been involved in the robot ever since.
WildStang comes from student choices of mascot names…Wheeling WILDcats and Rolling Meadows muSTANGs. The tie dye just came naturally. The Motorola mentor from 1992 came back to the team much later and is with us still.
Gary,
Whatever!!! No alpha males allowed, just Raul. We’re flexible.
Okay. [so here’s the earth… jk]
After a couple weeks of searching for a nice place to share our cumulative data that was free and had a high storage capacity, I realized I overlooked the best place to upload and share documents, Google Docs. It’s free; everyone has their own 1GB limit; and of course, the interface is superb. Problem solved.
You should be able to share, any/all historic FIRST data you or your team(s) may have. I say should be because I’m not 100% sure I set the permissions correctly for you to put your stuff in the same shared collection.
Google Docs - Historic FIRST data
Please view the README before sharing.
Note: I’ve already posted all relevant documents from Team 45’s History Project (1992-2000) and the images Peter Matteson linked to in a previous post.
Mark, you may want to update your spreadsheets.
I love when revisiting overlooked news articles pays out with information of value.
Here are the 1992 Award Winners:
Champion - [126] NYPRO/Clinton High School
Chairman’s - [191] Xerox/Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School
Most Creative Design - [126] NYPRO/Clinton High School
Best Offensive Round - [190] WPI/Doherty High School
Best Defensive Maneuver - [146] Kiwanis/Manchester West High School
Most Photogenic - ??] Advanced Animation/Rochester High School (Vermont)
Best Sportsmanship - [111] Motorola/Wheeling High School
Best Team Spirit - [191] Xerox/Joseph C. Wilson High School
Play of the Day - [131] NH Technical College/Central High School
The Ultimate Keeper - [45] Delco/Kokomo High School (I’d call this one a Judge’s Award)
Note: The article did not list the finalist.
Source: Google Doc / PDF (Orig)
Good find from the TechnoKats archives.
It confirms most of the awards I had, but there are a few conflicts that have to be reconciled-different teams have a claim on the Best Offensive and Best Defensive awards and I think Sportsmanship is contested too.
There seemed to be three finalists in 1992 and 1993.
4 teams played in the final match and we know who they were, one winner and three finalists.
45 has the Finalist trophy and it’s mentioned in one of their other news articles that they came in third.
I am giving this topic a bump because it’s been a little while… and because more data would still be good to have.
I used all my spare time yesterday to prototype FIRST Chat’s new design with 2 vs. 2 matches and decided to use the 2004 Great Lakes Regional. Little did I know I would end up spending the whole day looking for surrogate match trends for the seasons before it started being explicitly defined in the manual and looking for elimination match teams and results. Now that yesterday is done and past, I still haven’t found what I was enmeshed looking for.
Please, find and post more historic data because a complete archive is a happy archive.