Everyone seems to be going thru the same struggles, strategies, obstacles, experiences but what sets your team apart from the rest of the League? Here’s your chance to let everyone know whats so “special” or not about your team, random or not, doesn’t matter.
I’ll start it off…
1.) We’re the ONLY all boy high school participating on a team in the FIRST robotics league.
2.) I THINK we’re the only team so far to give out glowsticks.
3.) We have no professional engineers building/helping with our robot (though I’m sure other teams have this problem). Our robot was built ONLY by college students and several high school students. Miracle, aint it??
Team 401 has been built by college students and high school students for 3 years (to be 100 % honest we have had quite limited support from a few engineers, one, a students dad, and the other a VT alumn who is a manufacturing engineer, though it both cases there contributions were small relative to the total span of the project hope i don’t sound ungrateful, they did still help the team out)
I’d also be willing to bet we’re among the earlier second generation teams (teams spawned by graduates of other FIRST teams at some of the best engineering schools in the country)
We’re also unusually fond of polycarbonate (take a look at last year’s 8 inch tall sherman tank made with no structural metal)
and here’s a shameless plug for this year’s robot
We’re probably the only rookie team to have hosted a FIRST Championship in our gym. Not a regional - this was before regionals.
There are other high schools who have hosted Championships of course but not their first year in FIRST.
We’re a rookie team for the second time as it has been quite a few years since we first were in FIRST and no one who was part of those long ago teams is still at the school.
Well, I love my team and it is regretible that this is my last year with FIRST as a student, but we are a unique team.
We are a rookie team for the second time. The second year of FIRST, we created a team and were host to the national (and only) competition. After the third year, we lost our sponsor. Now we found an new one: MIT’s Lincoln Labs.
Fog. Used as a general purpose explitive, especially since the fog machine we were going to use when unvailing our robot set off the fire alarms.
We got the whole bottom floor of the Catholic Charaties Building, but only for this year.
when i read this post i thought…hmmmm what makes our team special? I really can’t say that were any more special than anyone else, i myself being a first time first participant was a little reluctent to join but i fit right in with team 316, almost as though i was adopted or somethin, we have family dinners and were all like brothers and sisters. (yes there are the usual arguments between borhters and sisters!) I think were special because we have the respect that most people dont have for everyone else we try to cider “Gracious Professionalism” but during the end of crunch time "Malicous Professionalism was more like it, but we always have “MOM” to remind us where our minds should be i mean me and Sam errrr i mean Sam and I always try to keep FIRST, first. Oh well i guess were your ordinary run of the mill FIRST team.
Not to say our team conforms to the norm, but were a pretty standard team. if something must set us appart it is the fack that we have broken away form two other teams twice to form the current team 222 and we are rather small and unknown. Or unnoticed for that matter.
*Originally posted by Wetzel *
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If I am correct, you are not going to VCU this year, but to Washington State.
You will be missed. **
Yeah, VCU filled up just too fast for us to get in. We’ll surely miss going there and meeting all those wonderful teams, but we are confident Seattle will be great as well. Maybe at Nationals?
We didn’t think we were particularly unique until we started looking around at other teams. Our robot was 104% built by High School students. No engineers, no college students, no teachers, no adults, no nothing. We have a couple of teachers/adults that are there to answer questions if and when we ask them b/c we’re stumped or we don’t know how to use some tool, but other than that all of our adults are basically completely uninvolved and of the mentality that we’ll learn more doing something poorly on our own than watching them do something well. I’ve yet to see or hear of another team that’s as completely student run as us.
Furthermore, we have nobody on our team or involved with our team that has ever been involved in FIRST in any way before this. No mentor team, and nobody joining us after branching off of another team. So we’re more or less coming completely out of nowhere. It doesn’t get much more rookie than this.
BTW, the 104% student built comes from the fact that when we had to cut 20 lbs in the final 12 hours of building, we did call on some adult man-power to help turn our robot into swiss cheese (we had 3 chassis punches going at once on the ball chute in the middle and we just needed more hands) . But since that was removing material, we actually had students construct more of our robot than is actually there.
Yeah, VCU filled up just too fast for us to get in. We’ll surely miss going there and meeting all those wonderful teams, but we are confident Seattle will be great as well. Maybe at Nationals? **
We work in Todd’s house for 6 weeks.
We have the All knowing Dave.
We’ve been the cause of several rules being added.
We’re the only NE Florida Girls Robotics Club that is also know as Team Resistance when the boys actually do something.
*Originally posted by Yearbook50 *
**We work in Todd’s house for 6 weeks.
We have the All knowing Dave.
We’ve been the cause of several rules being added.
We’re the only NE Florida Girls Robotics Club that is also know as Team Resistance when the boys actually do something. **
We have the all knowing, knows everybody Dave.
The one to be bald at nats.
and we work out of a house (thx Mr. & Mrs. A!)
