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Originally Posted by Libby K
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Akash mentioned earlier in the thread that students have run teams on their own, unsuccessfully. I'm going to jump in as one of those people.
I've posted about the early days of 1923 before, so I won't get too preachy here, but I cannot stress enough how much I do not recommend running a team on your own. At 14, my team (all 4 of us) was administrated, 'mentored' and captained by yours truly, without a mentor to our names for three years. It was exhausting, and I can't say I got what you're 'supposed' to get out of a FIRST experience. In my case, that was worth it to me - I've known FIRST all my life, I knew I wanted to go somewhere in the STEM fields, and I could hit the check box of being 'inspired' - so my focus in running the team was to provide that experience for other people in my school, even if I didn't get it myself.
Your case doesn't sound like that, since it doesn't seem like this team is even really open to other students. As others have mentioned, you seem to have some good pieces in place - and with that, you can definitely contribute positively elsewhere.
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You see, I want to be exhausted, I want to work hard... FIRST was the best thing I ever lived and I did it for the past three years. From January to April, I did nothing else then FIRST and school... I have involved myself in my team really hard and one of my favorite part was the organisation of a video game tournament. For a month I was working on that non-stop, asking students their preference, discussing with the direction, creating logos, finding sponsors, creating friendship with passionate people... And I learned that the making process of such an event gives you, in my opinion, more fun and knowledge then the event itself. I want to reproduce that in FIRST... Organize the team, meet sponsors, explain my passion to people. You see, after posting this thread and joining a few groups on Facebook, I've met awesome people with great passions and great stories and its one of my goal... To create my story... I want to do what I really like and to live my passion to the maximum. I understand you guys have a lot of experience and saw teams fail during your FIRST career but I won't give up.
Thank you for your comment and have a good day...