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Originally Posted by FRC BOTMOM
Behind the sceens every team has a lot of hard working robotics parents. They may not code, or build the bot but they do provide support, meals, rides, trailers, tools, help with funding etc. These are the things that keep the team going. So If a parent wants to acccept the award with the team let them. They have earned it.
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THANK YOU! I could not have said it better. For our team, if our parents did not make dinner for 50+ people every night we would go hungry or hate pizza, if one of our parents did not graciously pull our trailer and haul our stuff around this country we would only show up to competitions with the basics, if we didn't have a few dedicated parents that build our practice field in full each year, our drive team would just have carpet to drive on, and if we didn't have a select few dedicated parents in our rookie year, today we would not have some of the awesome mentors that we do today (I know many of you have mentors that started as interested parents many moons ago, watched their kids graduate, and are still around today (some 17 years later)). Oh, and one more small thing, if we didn't have a few extremely dedicated parents a some 15 years ago that went to every board meeting every month and praised our team, we would either a.) be a non existent FIRST team, or b.) not have what we do today.
While these are only a few examples from my team, I know that from the stories and friendships formed with teams across the country, I know that many will agree that it is our parents and family members that are a HUGE aspect of each team.
ANY AWARD the team may get is a team effort, whether some want to believe that or not. Yes, our website team is two students that code everything, but the content of the website has come from ideas from every person on our team, and I'm sure it's similar for others. Even if it was only two students, the team is going to support them and congratulate them in their win by going up and receiving the award with them. Same for animation, yes we have an active subteam for animation, but it was ideas that stemmed from every student on the team, including manufacturing, that helped our team create the idea for the animation story that they did.
This is a TEAM for a reason, we all put effort into every department, students, mentors, advisors, and parents alike. We are a team, but most importantly we are a family. We support each other through and through and that bond should be celebrated.