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Re: Well-Deserved Recognition of Team 25
The true definition of a role model team is one that other teams will try to emulate. If I were to establish a coin jar in our shop that made someone deposit a nickel every time someone said "Well, this is the way 25 did/does it," we would probably empty it twice during the build season. I've said before that when I;'m behind the glass, I am usually very focused, but when 25 was steamrolling us in various elimination matches the last few years, I couldn't do much but be in awe.
"The Want to Win" is a culture my graduating class of 2012 has left behind for other students to use. Winning may not be everything, but it's a challenge that we now set in front of ourselves that we didn't in the past. It;s a goal we set to make ourselves better than we have been. It's a long, messy road, but a light sits at the end of it.
I know 25 and other MAR teams that we played in 2 New Jersey Regionals and 2 Virginia Regionals over the last few years helped change the perception on the team from a club that builds a robot to a team that builds people.
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