“I don’t want to write up how you guys had a thumb war inappropriately” - mentor
“stop fondling my baby and get out” - our captain, after I touched the robot when he was working on it
“What if I put hot chocolate powder in it” - our vice captain about lemon lacroix
“Whats the lathe?” - climber component head
“oh is that gum or tape” - climber head
“if it’s tape i’ll eat it, if its gum i’ll also eat it” - intake head
“What’s up?”
“NothinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
Coach - “A robot is a mysterious thing”
“Why is the tape taping!?”
Use the bandsaw tonopen your fruit gummies!
“Clearance is a Boolean”
“The kids broke a note !!!”
“Which one?”
“The orange one”
“have yall learned linear algebra yet?”
“we’re in high school!”
To be fair I know one or two people who learned linear algebra in high school on FRC teams lol
that’s literally insane oh my god
For people in normal high schools probably, but lots of teams are part of highly STEM focused schools so I’m not that surprised. I was one of those nerds who took linear algebra and differential equations in high school lol
I’m pretty sure it was actually a required course for people in the computer science and computer engineering tracks at my high school/early college program.
I’m taking linear algebra in junior year right now 
Me: We need a new amp
Captain: but more importantly snacks
The captain is always right. 
“Girlfriends are temporary, but CAD is forever”-Deported Design Lead
“Just know the rookies will always be better than you”-Fab Lead to programmer
“God I’m getting CalGames flashbacks”-designer
“No, I’m in China”-Last words of our president
Um… whoopsie…
“Why do they make you select a plane first, it should just guess” (referring creating a sketch in Onshape)
I am proud to have taught the referenced student Onshape.
[Background: AA is a recent college graduate and even more recent hire who is automating our routine production on a combined Linux/Windows stack almost as fast as he is learning it, and is contributing significantly to our testing and adjustment of standard operating procedures required for a new version of our heavy lift software written in Linux. Both of these quotes were during our working together during testing this afternoon.]
About an hour later on, with regard to automation, not what I said above:
Mech lead: “Do you eat dry rub wings with ranch?”
Team lead: “Nope.”
Mech lead defensively: “Oh so you think you’re better than me??”