How is my old high school team Piratech doing now that Palm Bay High School is an academy (psst as if)?
When I saw the picture it being your old team was my first thought lol.
For that quality of a school, it really is an amazing team.
This year’s proven to be a challenge. One of our teams made it to the state competition via design award yesterday, however.
We did pretty well during Nothing but Net as well, with the majority of our teams making it to states, and our “flagship” teams making it to semifinals in states.
How many teams are they fielding? Also is H3 still with us?
He said that this person is the Event Partner, or at least associated with them.
I could not find such an assertion by jerbear64 in his posts, maybe I am misreading.
In the original post:
Oh shoot, I read the email I got and missed your post.
Yup, subtle.
Still speak with the Event Partner - that is a person, and trust me, probably not the person doing the building. EPs have a lot to do on event days.
Indeed, it is still alive and well. It lives its days on the cabinet that also holds our trophies from over the years.
We have six teams this year. Two “alliance” teams of two who are working together, the class team, and the freshman team.
I’m more than positive the person building was not the Event Partner.
Honestly, you should take this as a compliment. If teams are accusing you of having a mentor built robot, they think it is too good for you to have built it. If a team is basically calling your robot that good, you should be proud that you’re that good.
Yeah, this is the idea. I’m not going to be offended by untrue claims. And all the “in-the-know” people in our state know that of course we build our own robots. It’s not really a serious accusation of any sort.
This is a little off topic, but may help teams that feel that their coaches are doing too much:
The students on our team have had mandated a strict hands off approach by coaches for the past 4 to 5 years. However, during skyrise, our coaches felt that they needed some more experience with the VEX ecosystem to give more effective advice. They decided to build their own “coach bot” for fun. This robot definitely could not play skyrise better than a push bot, but had other complexities (think robotic arm with 3 degrees of freedom). Obviously, it never competed. It let them learn, without intruding.
Keep in mind that coaches may want to learn as much as their students!
So not exactly the CIA but from the info in the thread, it took 2 minutes to cross reference poster’s team number to Google and Robotevents to make a fairly good conclusion on team hosting competition this early in the season. Sportsmanship is a two way street and if I was someone on the other four PiraTech teams I might not be pleased that the t-shirt ids more than one team. That’s a whole easier even for someone who is not the freaking CIA