[Steve W]

I was not at Champs this year but by what I see nothing has changed. We are in a what's in it for me society or I am the most important person attitude. When people, young and old, begin to see that treating others as more important than self then everybody will win. Most volunteers do so because they want to make things better for all. As time goes on and they continually get abused they will go way. If this happens at FIRST we will be in huge trouble. I guess the word that should be added to FIRST would be RESPECT. If we could get all teams to add that to their goals and all mentors to teach and demonstrate wouldn't things be a lot better?

As for yelling robot I was at a regionals and got really upset about it. I ended up yelling at a student who screamed robot from a foot behind me. I then went to the safety guys and they said that it was encouraged and promoted. What can you do? Every time I heard robot I stopped right where I was and didn't move till they went around me. Childish yes but after a while the safety guys took notice and started speaking to the teams. FIRST NEEDS to put a stop to the yelling and bring back courtesy and respect for others.