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AKA: Cheryl Miller
#0294 (Beach Cities Robotics)
Team Role: Mentor
 
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Rookie Year: 2003
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Originally posted by Wayne C.
How about putting all that effort you were going to use promoting your team to FIRST to the better use of promoting your team and FIRST to neighboring communities or helping a struggling rookie team?

Maybe a 4 page essay puts takes the emphasis off spending time to win an award and changes it to spending more time actually doing what FIRST is really about- getting more kids involved.

The process of going after the chairman's award was crystalizing to our team where we needed to pick up the ball and run with it.

We were able to do both - go after the chairman's award, and get the word out to nearly double our team #'s, get a lot of publicity in the papers... Just haven't had ANY luck finding a team to mentor. We personally contacted local private and public schools without teams. Only one bite. We might be mentoring a lego team for a small private school. Our mentor is informally mentoring a team in the town where he works. We're spending time getting SCRRF off the ground tho.
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Beach Cities Robotics Team 294 Team Mom cheryl@bcrobotics.org
2004 Robot name: Orange Tide
motto: Two Rival Schools, One Team...ride the Tide.
2004 So Cal Chairman's Award, Phoenix Regional DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit Award
2003 So Cal Regional Finalist and Sportsmanship Award, Phoenix Regional Engineering Inspiration Award
2001 So Cal Regional and National Champions, Regional Image Award
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Mint: To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. Mentor: a wise and trusted guide and advisor.