“Jacob! I found the problem! The robot is sideways!” — Jesse
“It’s not worse, it’s just a different kind of bad.” — Pat
“Oh. That’s… not good.” — Lots of people
“That’s not hydraulic fluid, it’s blood” — Chris
The kids: “Wheel-arm-things,” “those net thingies,” etc.
Alan: “Wow! I love all the technical terms you guys are using!”
Nathan: “We’re going to be staying later than usual tonight.”
Deme: “This IS the new normal!”
“Thanks again for the giant rusty metal plate you gave us.” — Team 2550
“Why is this wire labeled ‘Don’t Ask’?” — Jesse
(At the competition, Jesse is not in the pit)
Other team: [Points at piston] “How does it work?”Team1432: [dramatic pause] “Well, it doesn’t work… yet. But we have a variety of interesting theories about what it might do”
[The team confers over the robot]
Team1432: [variety of responses, involving how far it might be capable of going, how strong it was, what might happen if it hit something, how it might respond to being run into, how the programming might change, etc.]
Other team: “Umm…. yeah.” [Wanders off...]
“It’s powered by radioactive hamsters” — Greg
(An hour of searching through the pit and the robot until the inspectors just gave up, realizing that they were indeed wrong)
“No, two pieces of metal do not equal the thing” — Chris
“No two pieces of metal are right thick” — Alec
“Team need drill that don’t stink when you use it!” — Chris
“Alex, get over here and fotografiz.,”-Chris
“I’m developing my own language!” -Jesse
“Just use C, Jesse… You need a semicolon… Dvorak has semicolon in the wrong place!” - Jacob
“Jacob, go get drill that doesn’t stink!” - Chris
“Go to Subway and get me Samich!” - Chris
“No, don’t you yell at me in Mexican!” - Jesse to Alex
