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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 |
As Mentor for Team 1708 and a Pittsburgh native let me apologize to Team 1114 and all
FIRST teams who may have been affected by this behavior. Our team was in the pit right next to 1114 and I pray we were not part of the offenders, if so I do apologize and ask that someone please notify me of this behavior, it will stop.
When 1708 entered The Peterson Events Center in 2005 after entering FRC with two and a half weeks left in the build season and carrying our tools in grocery bags we were in awe of what we saw. That soon ended when an adult from an established FIRST community outside of Pittsburgh and sporting multicolored hair came by our table and commented to a friend "what is that piece of crap doing here", welcome to FIRST team 1708. Luckily for us Team 365 and John Larock were also at the event and taught us about "Gracious Professionalism". and what FIRST really is.
1114 you have an awesome 'bot, organization and drive team, so good we all want to beat you, but not this way. Go Teams.