[Gdeaver]

Stick a bunch of human beings together and ask them to accomplish a difficult task. Then be the "fly on the wall" and observe. Most of the time there is some serious nastiness. The good teams will work it out and focus on the task and have success. This is a low probability event.

The main goal of every FIRST team, mentor and student, Should be to practice and find the methods that allow everyone to work together and accomplish great things. It is hard, harder than building a robot.

Students get to practice these skills before they go out into the world with their career and life on the line.

As one of last year's mentors said "It all begins with respect".

I've been doing this since 2000 and I'm still not a master of the "TEAM" thing.
Each year I try to do better.