1. Being a mentor only requires an open mind and fifty thousand times more responsibility.
2. Yelling and screaming gets you nowhere in life. A smile and a good sense of humor take you places.
3. All those little jobs that you would never want to do? That's what I get stuck with...
4. There are two things that FIRST always forgets to put inside the kit - more time and more money. There's never enough of either during the build season.
5. No matter how bad the situation seems, there's always a kid on your team that will keep trying to make it better.
6. The sacrifices that you make for your team are the ones that students will remember for a lifetime.
7. The best jokes are inside jokes with the kids on your team.
8. A FIRST friend is a forever friend.
9. The challenge of FIRST is not building a winning robot, it's that student, sitting in the corner, dying to create that robot - and you putting the wrench in his or her hands.
10. Never underestimate the power of the Chicken Dance.