Today, I was able to sneak this picture out of the Technokat Shop of little Rachel Baker (Andy B’s daughter) making parts for the team 45 2003 robot!! 
Way to go Team 45!!! Start 'em off early in the world of FIRST!!!
LOL! That is the cutest picture I’ve ever seen! 
Andy, you let your kids hang around DJ??
- Katie
I think that violates quite a few safety rules, doesn’t it? It would on our team at least.
Come on…where are the safety glasses 
She looks like someone is off in the background pointing a gun at her…that, and it looks like she is going to cry
Cory
Heh this is actually a funny story.
Once in awhile Andy brings the young ones in to be with their dad when he is at the shop all day and they play in the back with the old playing field balls or whatever, but today when most of us were gathered around the adults table in the office area, she came over and sat on the bench and randomly picked up the file and started doing exactly what she saw her dad do minutes before (I think Andy was working on that part). Heh one of the adults told anyone with a camera to get a picture of that.
So thats how that picture came to be. 
She turned her head as soon as I took the pic, so it didnt get the full effect of her working
Future Technokats- not wanting to wait
*Originally posted by D.J. Fluck *
**Heh this is actually a funny story.Once in awhile Andy brings the young ones in to be with their dad when he is at the shop all day and they play in the back with the old playing field balls or whatever, but today when most of us were gathered around the adults table in the office area, she came over and sat on the bench and randomly picked up the file and started doing exactly what she saw her dad do minutes before (I think Andy was working on that part). Heh one of the adults told anyone with a camera to get a picture of that.
So thats how that picture came to be.
She turned her head as soon as I took the pic, so it didnt get the full effect of her working
Future Technokats- not wanting to wait
Can she come out here and file for me? I hate it.
/me has brilliant idea
let the youngins have fun playing with files and shiny metal flecks!!
Cory
*Originally posted by Katie Reynolds *
**LOL! That is the cutest picture I’ve ever seen!Andy, you let your kids hang around DJ??
- Katie
YEa, KAtie: Andy must use DJ as a Role Model
Andy to Daughter: see DJ over there, dont turn out like him
*Originally posted by “Big Mike” *
**YEa, KAtie: Andy must use DJ as a Role ModelAndy to Daughter: see DJ over there, dont turn out like him **
Actually she was looking in Clarks direction, I was taking the picture, so obviously she wasnt looking at me
Hi Andy! Cute stuff! Sue Krussell
Child labor? What about using students who are only 12 or 13 (aka before they’re able to legally work) =)
Also child labor is very common at our school, especially with little brothers coming in and then us making them do slave labor
LOL!
Rachel wanted to come into the shop that day, and for most of the day she kept asking me to do certain jobs. First, I had her measuring our lovely assortment of drill bits with calipers and putting them back into their rightful homes… but reading the calipers were a bit too much for her.
Then, she was helping me run a mill… and she had safety glasses on (she would turn the crank for the x direction).
Then, she was filing those parts that you see in the pic that DJ took… and I know that she started out with safety glasses on when she started filing… hmmm. Maybe she was looking away, knowing that her eyes were in danger.
Some of you might’ve seen her pic before. It used to be on the front page of the RCU website.
She has discovered a few games to play with the totes… there is “treasure hunt”. Hide a “treasure” in one of the totes and a “bomb” (something that simply represents a bomb, of course) and have someone else search for the treasure. If they find the bomb, they lose… if they find the treasure, they win.
Also, there is the game of finding spare change under the platform/ramp. With the polycarbonate sides mounted, it’s pretty much impossible to get anything that falls through the grating.
And, yes… DJ is a good role model. Honestly, if my kids grow up to be like the students on the TechnoKats, then my wife and I will be very pleased.
Andy B.
good part about leaving for college…no more clark and dj
bad part about leaving for college…no more baker girls to play with 
*Originally posted by Molly Menges *
**bad part about leaving for college…no more clark and dj**
Im sorry you feel that way
Yeah for child labor!!!
Least they could do is give her some safety glasses.
Yeah for child labor!!!
Wow, where can my team get members so young and yet so dedicated like that?
*Originally posted by sevisehda *
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Least they could do is give her some safety glasses.
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Yeah! And shorter chair and tables too!
*Originally posted by Ken L *
**Yeah! And shorter chair and tables too! **
Yeah, speaking of that; Have you people ever gone back to your elementary school and tried to use the water fountain???
I dont remember the spout for the water fountain being a foot above the ground!!
I went back to my old elementary school last week and I dont remember the ceiling being that short