What it's all about.

Why do we all do this? The recruitment, the speeches, the explanations for why someone should be on the Team, the conceptual design, the analysis, the Team meetings with pizza and possibly beer if the Team's an older one, the material selection, the steel ordering, the de-greasing, the cutting, the miling, the lathing (is that a word?), the grinding, the welding, the attention to fabrication detail, the connection tolerances, the construction planning, the practice, the practice, the practice, THE PRACTICE, the aesthetics prep, the nervousness for only ONE day of competition, maybe two if you're good enough, the "Euphoria" of victory, the agony of defeat...be it not being prepared, bad luck or simply being out-designed/competed, the trips to Nats, the picture taking of all the other schools, the talking to all the other schools, the quiet walk bys of the Team members from other schools you know to be as good, if not, better than you are, the last day practices, the final competition, the award banquets, the rewards or the "get 'em next year's...

Why Why Why? Because it's fun, because you're addicted, because you want to impress your future employer, because engineers have to have each other or they really don't have anybody, because of school pride, because you live in the middle of nowhere, because you want to do something with your life, because of the friendships, because of the parties, because of the thrill of victory, because of the things you learn, because you know it's worth it, IF ONLY FOR A TRIP TO CALI BABY!

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Can you name all these champions?

We compete and strive to be the best in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada and Japan -- be the best, work for your awards. That's why we do this...

...Until German schools enter, then we're all screwed.

Thanks for the tip Tigers:

definitely da bomb.