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May I just say that sometimes this really does work out though. The team I have been mentoring for the past several months, team 997 from Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Oregon won the award at the Autodesk Oregon Regional.
This team won the award after lots and lots of unlucky mechanical failures, and by our third match, out bridge arm was completely broken. So, this team decided that instead of getting mopey and depressed, they would figure out another way of being a valuable team member. So they constructed a sort of wedge used to lift up the bridge for other teams. In every one of our following matches we did our job of lifting bridges and helping others get on the bridge. Though we did not always successfully get robots balanced on bridges, we still did our best to be a great team member. Also, through the entire regional, students were out and about, helping other teams get working after their robots had mechanical, electrical, and software issues (I know this is more towards the GP award, but that is also towards the whole "go turn in forms for our team because we helped you!" issue). So even though we only ended up winning one of our matches, I am so proud of this team because they have demonstrated to the fullest extent the meaning of Coopertition and Gracious Professionalism.
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