Posted by Erin. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Student on team #1, The Juggernauts, from Oakland Technical Center-Northeast Campus and 3-Dimensional Services.
Posted on 4/3/2000 8:04 PM MST
Ok guys, THERE IS A SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE IN THIS MESSAGE. It says, ‘wear your safety glasses’. I know, I know, they aren’t extremely attractive and blah blah… they make your face sweaty and blah blah… they don’t fit over your glasses and all that (even though FIRST supplies safety specs that fit over sexy specs)
All I have to say is this: Pits are unsafe areas when there is severe modifications in process. I think about how much I care for everyone’s safety and how sad I would be if you people went on throughout your life not being able to see because of the ‘stereotype’ put on glasses. AT TEAM ONE, safety glasses are COOL. THEY ARE POPULAR. (THERE IS A SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE TO THIS MESSAGE= WEAR YOUR SAFETY GLASSES.) I should hope that you would do this on your own. You will see me wearing mine, and I should hope that all the engineers and teachers tell their students that doing the safety thing is the right thing. It scares me when I have seen students doing work on their robot sans safety specs. Please people, listen to me, I am the Smokey Bear of the safety world. Wear your safety glasses. Remind others to wear theirs. Not only is this a good golden rule but a way to show others how much you care. Thanks for listening.
-erin
As Mr. McIntyre has labeled all over the classroom:
‘WARNING: THIS COULD BE THE LAST THING YOU EVER READ. Wear your safety glasses.’
Posted by Eric Fleming.
Student on team #178, 2nd Law Enforcers, from Farmington High School and UTC Otis Elevator Co…
Posted on 4/3/2000 8:55 PM MST
In Reply to: If anyone hasn’t noticed… posted by Erin on 4/3/2000 8:04 PM MST:
Erin, you have a very good point.
At the Otis Elevator & Farmington pit area, you will always see every member of the pit crew wearing safety glasses. Not only that, if they are touching the robot, they will have a hard hat on.
Sure, some may think this is dorky, but after witnessing a severe accident at the nationals a few years ago, I would never think twice about wearing one. We were in our pit and diagonally across from us another team was working on their robot and they had a section of the goal in their pit area to test their design with. Well, we began to notice that the piece of goal started to sway and anyone who knows those pieces of iron pipe, they are quite hard and heavy. A member of our team went over to offer them our hard hats in an effort to protect them from harm. They laughed in our teammate’s face. He returned to our pit area and said they didn’t want them. No more than a minute later, the piece of goal fell and split this person’s head open and needed to get to paramedics immediately.
No one hesitates to wear a hard hat on our team from that point on. In fact, the OTIS yellow hardhats have become a signature item. Look for them later this week, and by all means stop by and ask to borrow them if you at all feel there is risk of injury. Team 178 is here to help!
See you all later this week!
-Eric
Posted by Erin. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Student on team #1, The Juggernauts, from Oakland Technical Center-Northeast Campus and 3-Dimensional Services.
Posted on 4/3/2000 9:22 PM MST
In Reply to: more than just safety glasses posted by Eric Fleming on 4/3/2000 8:55 PM MST:
Beware of the LAW-
Eric and Erin will be watching your safety now, you guys 
We care, and you all should too! Hard hats, by the way, are definitely a good idea for robots with arms like ours… whatif they fell while a student was working on the drivetrain and they were lifted? What an accident that would be. I LIKE FEEDBACK so give me your thoughts
-erin
Posted by Kevin Sevcik.
Other on team #57, Leopards, from BT Washington and the High School for Engineering Professions and Exxon, Kellog Brown & Root, Powell Electrical.
Posted on 4/4/2000 1:35 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: more than just safety glasses posted by Erin on 4/3/2000 9:22 PM MST:
What about gloves, guys? I can’t count how many times a good pair of work gloves have saved my knuckles, fingers, palms, etc from scrapes cuts and the occasional dremel. In my book, gloves are a must when you’re working on a robot.
PS. Safety glasses don’t have to be dorky at all. Team 57 is going to be outfitted with some darn cool looking safety/sunglasses from… erm… well I forget where we ordered them from. I can find out if anyone is terribly interested, but suffice to say, they look good…
Posted by Keith Liadis.
Student on team #131, C.H.A.O.S., from Manchester Central High School and Osram Sylvania and Fleet Bank.
Posted on 4/4/2000 6:02 PM MST
In Reply to: but what about… posted by Kevin Sevcik on 4/4/2000 1:35 PM MST:
I’m sure you just overlooked this one somehow… but I for one am DEFINATELY wearing full body armor… there’s nothing worse than a severe decapatation from an out of control robot… I dare anyone to challenge me on that one!
Posted by Chris Dibble.
Student on team #102, Dextrous Gearheads, from Somerville High School and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics.
Posted on 4/12/2000 9:09 PM MST
In Reply to: One more crucial thing! posted by Keith Liadis on 4/4/2000 6:02 PM MST:
Personally, I dont’ think anyone should touch the robots. I mean, come on, we could get our heads bashed in and cut off, hands cut off, fingers pinched, and could have goal pieces fall from the ceiling.
Yes, Keith, body armor is a good idea, but it is much safer not to touch or work on the robots at all.