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Originally Posted by JVN
Hello Everyone,
I've been thinking about this for a long time. I heard some horrible, interesting stories from the Pittsburgh regional this past weekend which helped solidify my thoughts.
I managed to put these thoughts into words here:
http://blog.iamjvn.com/2011/03/anoth...re-change.html
I hope you'll take a minute to read, reflect, and hopefully join me in helping to shift OUR culture.
-John |
I am appalled and embarrassed by what FRC 1114 experienced and inspired by their reaction. I hope my team (FRC 2789) has an opportunity to interact with this team at some future Regional; they deserve a much warmer welcome and much more positive and gracious interactions.
Also, thank you FRC 148 for developing another awe-inspiring robot this year. Video of your robot hanging 2 ubertubes during autonomous has captivated the imagination of the administration at my school. They want to WIN (we are the only varsity sport on our campus) and they view your team as the team to beat. Because you are so awesome, they are finally starting to understand the resources we need to assemble in order to build and sustain a great
FIRST team. They are FINALLY letting our team submit proposals to acquire more tools and more space so we can begin building the on-site machine shop we need to build good robots.
I can also tell that FRC 148's students belong to a team with great culture, mentorship and training because they spent a lot of time in our pit during the Alamo Regional helping us fix our minibot deployment system. Thanks again for this assistance.
Finally, JVN, I think you're an alien. That is one the highest compliments I give people. It's what I call people that are so good that they are not of this earth. When I grow up, I want to be an alien, like you.