{"id":20281,"date":"2025-04-15T19:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=20281"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:32:16","slug":"bonus-year-of-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=20281","title":{"rendered":"A bonus year with Team 95!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I felt like this year I got a bonus year of FIRST Robotics! Lex joined in 9th grade, R joined a year later, and E joined this year! She was a little up and down all season, but she stuck with it, had some new experiences, discovered some new skills, and formed some new friendships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team went to three events, as usual, but two of them were new events, one in Maine and the other in Vermont. Vermont’s first FRC event! Grasshoppers had to represent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cutie little grasshopper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Smart little grasshopper!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alan and I went up to visit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Preparing for alliance selection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Team 95 invites…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Captain E<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The UVM event had a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream robot! Alan and I went up to spend the day with E on the last day. Our ice cream robot picture was photo bombed by the guy who took Eve’s senior pictures. He takes a lot of sports photography for the school and other events. He was there photographing a sporting event at UVM and stopped by to get a few pics of robotics too. :) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was really cool to see how important she is on this team. The coaches were frequently asking for her input and advice on alliance selection and other teams. She helped with organization and was the brave one who led the alliance selection team at each event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big smiles! Lex was happy to be back for an event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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R2D2 is a pin collector too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The alliance select team, heading to the field. I love this picture! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the district championship Alan, Lex, and I all went down to spend the final day with Eve. Districts is a bigger, longer event and Eve rocked it the whole time. She made it her goal to collect swag from every single team (she made a spreadsheet!) and wore the swag the whole time. There was a Star Wars group there (not sure if they were a team or something else), so there were R2s and Storm Troopers and other Star Wars characters wandering around the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the fact that she complained about practices, dreaded going to events, and fussed a lot, she ended each event on a total high and made lots of friends. The coaches and freshman boys love her. She spent the whole drive home from the final event sad that the season was over and thinking of ways she (we) could continue to be involved in the future. :) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way may be to continue making buttons for the team and maintaining the teams website. I’ve been doing it for the past few years and Eve took over this year. In the past the team had a tradition of giving away Keebler Grasshopper cookies to the other teams, judged, volunteers, etc after each event. Sadly Keebler stopped making those cookies (or changed something, I forget) and one coach decided to make cookies instead. She asked for volunteers to help, so of course I volunteered! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The season is now over. They had their “unpack the truck” meeting tonight. There will be a few other “off-season” and recruiting events over the summer. Eve is excited for all of them. I’m excited that she found something she enjoys, people who respect here, and, I got an extra year of robotics fun! Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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