Student: How does the hole-maker work?
Mentor: It’s a spring-loaded latchey thingy…
“Lower the guard. Start sawing. Question the sharpness of the saw…”
sound like a kid from my team… only his solution is a dead blow hammer…:ahh:
Me, to my dad via cell phone: “I’ve found a broken and an unbroken moon rock.” (OK, so one of them was an Empty Cell, but it looked like a Moon Rock.)
Incidentally, the Rapid City Walmart no longer has any Orbit balls.
-“hand me that rock ball thingy!” (enugh said)
In Norview’s first year, the team came into the possession of a mallet with a yellow plastic end and a pink eraser-like rubber end. No one remembers exactly when, but John, the mechanical leader at the time, took a pink marker and wrote “DOOM HAMMER” on the handle. Despite three years of misuse by hammering things meant for a hammer, not a mallet, it still remains a staple in the shop. Every now and then, like during the FTC season, the following exchange (or something close enough) takes place.
1: Hold on, I have to pound this collar onto the axle.
2: Okay
1: Hey, where’d doom hammer go?
2: It poofed!
1: Great. I hope it poofs back this time.
2: Wait. Dude, its on the pegboard.
1: WHEN DID THAT GET THERE?!
EPIC…(said by person from halfway across the buildspace that was not even close to being apart of the converstation)…FAIL!!
When it was sugested to make a small robot with a tall pole sticking out the top for the Overdrive game another student responded with,
“That’s like tieing a flagpole to a gopher!”
and the room broke out laughing. The quote is still on the board today.
After 2 people drop M&Ms on the ground, “See this is why we can’t have nice candy.”
A lot of odd stuff has been said already, but my favorite line of the day:
mentor: we need nail polish, do you know why?
student: are we dressing in drag again?
Shift happens
One of our students broke his glasses the other day and during dinner the following conversation occured:
Student 1: Why are your glasses taped?
Student with Broken Glasses: Well I feel that becasue I am on a robotics team I should take geek to a new level. I am going to start where tape on my glasses and a pocket prot…
Student 2: THEY ARE BROKEN
He is still walking around with tape on his glasses:cool:
Nice… :eek:
“be carefull of this machine… we like to call it… The Meat Grinder.”
long story.
Kyle: How long is it?
Jory: Long enough to fit the other hole.
Peter(prude): That’s what she said!
Mentor: “Constraints are never important”
insane maniacal laughter when the wireless router talked to the bridge properly and downloaded code
Then there’s the classic “IT’S ALIVE!!!” when the motors worked.
student- “what would hapen, if the wheel got stuck when the balls went through and the whole motor and everything stopped spinning”?
me-“fire would happen”
uh huh. basiclyy the same here. here is one i just heard—
Mentor in Office, talking to student w/ headache: “well, im not authorized to give you any, but if you stole it…”
ok- i am sitting here on the comutor now and the captain and a mentor start cackling like evil dudes.
Me: “what was that?”
them: (crack up laughing)
Me: i dont get it.
them: (laughing even harder)
size does matter as long as its followed by something horrendously stupid