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Re: Seniors
I am still getting used to the idea of having to go to college. I cannot cope with the idea of stop building robots for LamBot, I am a founding member of team. LamBot has been my whole high school. I feel very proud of the job done so far but I feel guilty too. During my three years in FRC my team members and I have not been able to find some kind of quality standards for the area of engineering. Most of our mentors are new each year so the quality of our robots have not been the best so far. I feel bad because I am not going to be able to be with them when they have to face the challenge of teaching a new mentor what FIRST is. But no everything is guilt, I feel proud that there are other students willing to take the leadership of the mechanics team. I may be away for FIRST, I may not, I don't know yet but at least I know that I have made some contributions to my team. I was safety captain and pits captain on my two first seasons, and now the new girls in charge of safety know how to keep everyone safe, how to impress the judges and even some other teams. (I won the Star of the day in 2012 and the girl I trained to be safety captain won it this year). Also in LamBot scouting was terribly handled, scouting was seen as "send someone to tell everyone that our robot is cool" but this year I trained six juniors and freshmen to scout the event and make effective strategies for our qualification matches. (This year that didn't help us a lot, we are still trying to get the robot part straight.) I am the FIRST non-mentor coach of drivers of the team so I am planning to leave some kind of document to guide the next coach.
All in all, I think I have made a contribution to the team, but I still feel like I have not given everything I could give to my team. It is hard to think about not being able to build and FRC robot in the future, but I guess this is how this works. New students deserve to take my role in the team and they also deserve to live the experience I lived. The bright side of this is that next year the first Mexican FRC regional is going to take place, so I am pretty sure a lot of hands are going to be needed (By the way, we are going to be more than happy to have non-Mexican teams attending to our first regional, hope you speak Spanish.)
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