One hour before we had to bag and tag:
“Well, looks like the prototype finally works.”
Scariest thing I had heard all season.
“This is going to be awesome” with a surprise appearance by tim-tim.
An outtake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY5u1M3X4R4&feature=youtube_gdata
A few hours before bag; that time when you just don’t care about it being right anymore.
“If it fits, it ships”
“So when are we adding that photon cannon?”
The students were ribbing another student about having a girl friend and I said that unless the girl was in the KOP, it wasn’t allowed 
While telling freshmen how bag and tag works:
"Me: If that bag gets messed with, we could get dq’d. So if any of you touch it, I promise, I will beat you.
Freshmen: terrified looks
Head Mentor: (cracking up un the back if the room) the robot has a special bubble. Stay out of it. "
During the late hours of a build night:
“I like turtles”
“Bro, are you even a riveter?”
There are probably hundreds from 4269’s build season, but I have some of my personal favorites here:
- “This is NOT the Pinewood Derby!”
- “Is that a robot? Niiice!”
- “Just use some duct tape…”
- “Oops!”
- “Blame it on the freshman!”
- “Mesure once, cut twice!”
- “If you screw up, you can always use a board stretcher!”
- “Where does the flux capacitor go?”
More to follow!
Programmer: “Why isn’t the robot turning on?”
Mentor: “Well did you plug the battery in?”
Programmer: “Well there you go, that’s why I’m not on pit crew. Just give me
a bunch of 1’s and 0’s and I’ll figure it out.”
Me: “Uhhh it’s either plugged in or it isn’t.”
It could be plugged in backwards.
“Well we just double stuffed” put 2 discs in the prime position.
Here is our annual blog post of quotes from the Ultimate Ascent build season. http://tahomarobotics.org/2013/02/20/build-season-2013-the-final-chapter/
Hey how do we make a new post?
“We broke it. Then we fixed it. Then we broke it again.”
::ouch:: While cutting buckets for the disk magazine…
" I Hate Buckets"
“I’m going to kick the Bucket”
But I think we finally have one with all the cuts in the right place 
“What’s a WAGO?”
“Ouch! The robot bit me!”
(after watching 118’s reveal video for 2013): That poor helicopter!!!
Mentor: “Why are you guys using a blowtorch?”
Person: “To cut rope.”
Mentor: “Oh, okay.”
Me to a CAD/Mechanical mentor: “Hey look, I successfully constrained the chain to the sprocket!”
B: “NOBODY BREATHE!!!”
This was said a week or so ago when we were painting our launcher. An electrical freshmen was fanning it with lexan to aid the drying process (voluntarily, I promise) when we were discussing the humidity caused by breathing in the build room and how it was effecting the paint on the launcher. Needless to say, we got some weird looks when that got shouted.