Re: What Makes a FIRST Team Successful?
 

Pride. As has been mentioned over and over, it's not about winning. It's about being able to show up to competition proud and go home even prouder, no matter how you scored.

I've found that once you have pride in your team, you can start winning. Not the other way around, although that seems to make more sense.

Re: What Makes a FIRST Team Successful?
 

In my own opinion the success of the team is not how many awards you win, or who you beat but rather what you get from the experience. To me what makes a successful team is diversity. When there are different people working together all wi8th different ideas it tends to make a greater, more grand outcome. Really the best way i can put it is you don't see the person working next to you as a team mate, you see them as your freind.

There is so much to be leanred in a short amount of time. With the many different minds more ideas can spread which equals more learning. in adition to that working with other teams and exchanging more ideas just adds in a whole to the FIRST experience.

I consider my team very successful because through the short 6 weeks we are able to pull together and do everything and help out other teams as well. (^-^)

Re: What Makes a FIRST Team Successful?
 

I have always defined success in FIRST as "contributing to the excellence of the organization"

I know we all love FIRST, I love FIRST, but there are many opportunities out there for a dedicated mentor to have a positive influence on a handful of students. FIRST needs to be more than that. As mentors we need to expand our thinking beyond how will I influence the students on my team. In FIRST we have the opportunity to influence 10's of thousands of people. We are try to change a culture.

Keep contributing the excellence of the organization and we will all succeed!