A build day without Prog is like having a scratched copy of Close to the Edge. So much potential…wasted.
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“School is just a break from robotics.”
-Team 708
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There should be a FRC Harlem shake.
“Uh, Mr. B, we just drove the robot off the table.”
…a new programer was fixing the codes and accidently drove the robot straight off the worktable. Thank goodness we put a cage around the electrical!
Mentor 1: Pointing the light at the target makes a big difference.
Mentor 2: Yeah, so does pointing forwards or backwards.
Students break out in laughter.
“Are we staying late on Tuesday?”
Mentor laughed for a good 30 seconds
Mentor: “Stop touching each other.”
Team member: “Actually, we’re not touching. We’re sharing electrons.”
Mentor: “Then stop sharing electrons.”
-later on-
“Now whenever somebody walks into you accidentally, you’re going to think to yourself, ‘that guy just stole some of my electrons.’”
“I don’t want to share electrons with you. I might get an ETD.”
“You hot-glued… to a zip tie?”
During our practice bag n’ tag/robot reveal presentation:
“We decided to keep the jaguars away from the computers because, as one of our mentors put it, we should keep the rock band out of the library.”
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freshman picks up an aluminum bar painstakingly wrapped in rope
freshman: “what is this…?”
mentor: “I’m not sure, I think Shimpei made it.”
freshman: “but what does it do…?”
mentor: “nothing…”
senior: “yeah, it’s that time of build season.”
“We have plenty of time to panic”
C. Koenig ~Lead Mentor
We have two brothers on our team.
Brother 1 trips over Ethernet cable ripping the tang out of my laptop
Brother 2 then grabs laptop and walks off with it with cable duct taped in.
“What does your family have against my laptop?!!!”
Me: Can we move the robot to the woodshop to wire it? The tables are lower, and the lighting is better.
Lead Build Mentor (as he watches the build groups carrying the robot into the woodshop): No! Absolutely not! Whoever moves the robot off the assembly table will be shot! (I believed him too)
E: Hey! I can’t hold this on my own!
C: It’s a piece of paper!
“I like my PIDS aggressive!”
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Coach W: “Hey! No hugging.”
Mentor K: “I broke gravity once.”
Head Captain: " 3…2…1… Coms. Coms. Coms. Coms…"
Mentor K: “Maybe you shouldn’t swing around the big metal thing until your ready to use it.”
Mentor K: “I had front-row seats to the Big-Bang!”
Mentor on electrical panel: “You need to be on tht $@#$@#$@#$@# like a mother on her baby. People don’t like it when babies die, and yours just died twice in the last twenty minutes!”
Later that evening (four days before bag)…
Same (male) mentor: “We need to find an underappreciated woman to rewire this robot, because apparently men cannot wire with any kind of attention to detail or sense of aesthetic appeal.”
“We should use fans”
This became a running gag throughout the entire season.
One of our lead builders spoke through an awkwardly shaped PVC pipe and sounded like Bane from Batman. " I was born of the pyramid. Molded by it."
one of my favorites is “sleep is for after build session” -me
Rookie Member: “Man, this bandsaw blade goes on FOREVER.”
Something breaks
“This is why we can’t have nice things”