02-05-2012, 15:41
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Always a MidKnight Inventor.
 FRC #1923 (The MidKnight Inventors) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Rookie Year: 1992
Location: West Windsor, NJ
Posts: 1,584
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Re: 2012 Lessons Learned :The Positive
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Originally Posted by IKE
With 1114 winning the Chairman's Award, a lot of myths were "busted". Yes an international team can win. No you don't need a team of 100 students (I think 1114 is around 24). Yes field competitive teams are role models too.
Never judge a book by its cover. When Kareem Abdul Jabar was invited to be an honored guest, there a few vocal people against hero worship of pro-atheletes, only to find out KAJ is a huge supporter of STEM complete with even writing a book targeted to get middle school kids excited about inventors.
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Both of these, x1000.
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Originally Posted by Carol
I challenge everyone to make The Positive thread longer than The Negative thread.
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Seconded.
When I'm not in the middle of finals, I will certainly add my few cents to this thread.
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