This is the team I mentor, 1243, second year with FIRST and we are looking forward to it. Kick off at Northville in Michigan was fun, though the workshops I attended were rather boring. I am excited about the new sensors and scripting for autonomous. Though it seems like 6 robots on the field at once is going to make it a little crowded.
I am aware of this, I am mentoring a rookie team this year. We didn't get a grant from NASA this year, instead got it from GM. This year we took 1st at the Grand Rapids regional, won almost every single rookie award at the regionals we attended, and took 17th in the Curie division at the championship. I was saying that how are they supposed to get the money on their own, as individuals.
At 14 & 15 how are they going to get the money for air compressors, air tanks, tubing, valves, solenoids, regulators, and all the other stuff in order to build something that uses pneumatics? How are they going to get the cash to buy a radio controller, and an interface that they can program to control something that they've built? The program supplies all that for them. And they get access to engineers and others who have knowledge in the area and can answer questions that they might have face to face, instead of trying to look up the answer in a book that they might not understand completly.
It is rather disturbing how many people are bashing the program. It is a good chance for students to learn about many things they otherwise wouldn't in high school. The students on the team I help mentor (1243 out of Swartz Creek, MI) did all the pnuematics and all the electrical systems. We also have students learning how to program in C, doing all the autonomous code and writing code to handle inputs from the various controls. All the mentors did was explain to them how the systems worked, they hooked it up, they figured out problems, and they built the robot.
We are a rookie team this year, took first at the Grand Rapids regional, and are currently competing at the championship (17th place in the Curie division, currently). Sadly, I am not there.
There is a federal minimum wage, it doesn't vary from state to state. It is set at $5.15 an hour. Family businesses don't have to pay it to family who work for the business, and waiters/waitresses have to make at least $5.15 with their tips, if they don't, the company they work for has to pay them that.
Have you ever even been in a union? Unions protect you from getting fired for punching in a minute late. Unions make sure you get fair compensation for holidays/overtime/pulling double shifts all that kind of stuff. Yes, most union presidents are as good as criminals, but unions still help out the workers.
They fixed that, there is currently animation for just about everything your avatar can do. That includes different postures for standing around, running, jumping, walking, swimming, and so on.
I currently play the game, which is kind of obvious that you don't with your mentioning that you cannot hoard stuff. The equipment only degrades with use, and some of it degrades much slower than others. It is possible to hoard things, they are currently working on apartments that you could use to store objects in, and you already have a huge inventory, bigger than the inventory I've seen in any MMORPG.
Thats not true, at the store where I work they use Windows NT on all of the cash registers (about 50 of them). It crashes and locks up all the time, but they will not change.
Why would someone do something like this? I understand that it is supposed to be art but come on... How can you make art out of one of the most annoying sounds in existence? It seems to me that the whole thing would just piss a normal person off.
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This is the team I mentor, 1243, second year with FIRST and we are looking forward to it. Kick off at Northville in Michigan was fun, though the workshops I attended were rather boring. I am excited about the new sensors and scripting for autonomous. Though it seems like 6 robots on the field at once is going to make it a little crowded.
I am aware of this, I am mentoring a rookie team this year. We didn't get a grant from NASA this year, instead got it from GM. This year we took 1st at the Grand Rapids regional, won almost every single rookie award at the regionals we attended, and took 17th in the Curie division at the championship. I was saying that how are they supposed to get the money on their own, as individuals.
At 14 & 15 how are they going to get the money for air compressors, air tanks, tubing, valves, solenoids, regulators, and all the other stuff in order to build something that uses pneumatics? How are they going to get the cash to buy a radio controller, and an interface that they can program to control something that they've built? The program supplies all that for them. And they get access to engineers and others who have knowledge in the area and can answer questions that they might have face to face, instead of trying to look up the answer in a book that they might not understand completly.
It is rather disturbing how many people are bashing the program. It is a good chance for students to learn about many things they otherwise wouldn't in high school. The students on the team I help mentor (1243 out of Swartz Creek, MI) did all the pnuematics and all the electrical systems. We also have students learning how to program in C, doing all the autonomous code and writing code to handle inputs from the various controls. All the mentors did was explain to them how the systems worked, they hooked it up, they figured out problems, and they built the robot.
We are a rookie team this year, took first at the Grand Rapids regional, and are currently competing at the championship (17th place in the Curie division, currently). Sadly, I am not there.
There is a federal minimum wage, it doesn't vary from state to state. It is set at $5.15 an hour. Family businesses don't have to pay it to family who work for the business, and waiters/waitresses have to make at least $5.15 with their tips, if they don't, the company they work for has to pay them that.
Have you ever even been in a union? Unions protect you from getting fired for punching in a minute late. Unions make sure you get fair compensation for holidays/overtime/pulling double shifts all that kind of stuff. Yes, most union presidents are as good as criminals, but unions still help out the workers.
Damn right, it's never a question of whether or not to sell out, but at what price. People seem to get confused about that.
Bah, just a little tank of propane? A propane tanker blew up under a bridge by my house a couple weeks ago, now that is an explosion.
Here's the link...
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmos
It's a way of writing papers. Along with the MLA, APA, and a whole bunch of others. Here is a link to the FAQ for it.
They fixed that, there is currently animation for just about everything your avatar can do. That includes different postures for standing around, running, jumping, walking, swimming, and so on.
I currently play the game, which is kind of obvious that you don't with your mentioning that you cannot hoard stuff. The equipment only degrades with use, and some of it degrades much slower than others. It is possible to hoard things, they are currently working on apartments that you could use to store objects in, and you already have a huge inventory, bigger than the inventory I've seen in any MMORPG.
Thats not true, at the store where I work they use Windows NT on all of the cash registers (about 50 of them). It crashes and locks up all the time, but they will not change.
My ranking got better, too. My site went from the bottom of page 4, to the top two on page 1 when you do a search by the name of the site.
I did listen to them, as I pointed out above...
Yes I did, and they annoyed the hell out of me.
Why would someone do something like this? I understand that it is supposed to be art but come on... How can you make art out of one of the most annoying sounds in existence? It seems to me that the whole thing would just piss a normal person off.
Why is he screaming my last name?