I agree 100% with this statement.
Personally I stopped caring a lot if my team won or lost a match after my first year on my team. The whole experience of FIRST is to teach students like myself about how to be a leader and to prepare you for the next step of your life (ie college, trade school, workforce, etc.). I can say, once you look pass the winning and loosing and reflect on what you have learned going through this program, some might be surprised how much they have actually learned.
I help mentor 6 local FTC teams in my school district and I try my hardest to instill this idea of learning being more important than winning before the go into FRC so they can have a better experience.
Winning to me is just the icing on the donut, the experiences is the whole donut itself
