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01-07-10, 06:40 PM #1FIRST Robotics kickoff
Anyone on a team? I'm guessing noone will make it to the Shire for kickoff but if you watch the NASA feed you might get a glimpse of my fiery moptop.
for those that don't know, FIRST is a robotics competition for highschoolers who are smarter than me.
http://www.usfirst.org/
Dean has a sick house, I've been there.
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01-07-10, 06:45 PM #2
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Man, I had soooo much fun doing FIRST when I was in school.
Made some kick ass ball moving beasts out of some old printers and other related junk.
We never won, you can tell some of the schools obviously have some rich daddies with engineering friends, so I wouldn't call the comp fair, but as far as a learning opportunity, it's huge.
I went on to compete in Battle Bots in Vegas 2001 with my knowledge, got our butt kicked then too, but damn it was fun making fighting robots.
Ill tell you those things are ALOT bigger than you think. 400+ pounds of killer servo-driven metal armed with a pick axe screeching down the street at 30 mph scarred the neighbors a few times.
Good luck! Keep your batteries charged! :9
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01-07-10, 06:48 PM #3Re: FIRST Robotics kickoff
My highschool has a team, but in im college soooooo...
I was in it in the year 2009 we made it to semi finals in our state and it was our first time ever competing ever!!
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01-07-10, 07:24 PM #7Re: FIRST Robotics kickoff
FIRST was cool the only thing I didn't like was the power hungry nerds who thought everyone elses ideas were shit.
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01-07-10, 07:29 PM #9Re: FIRST Robotics kickoff
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