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Takes off my FRC11 hat...

I wonder sometimes:

What it must be like for people motivated by winning: when they realize that out in the real world there are few clear winners if you really look.

Eventually many will join teams magnitudes larger than anything that exists in FIRST.

I mean we win because we finally get the schools to acknowledge the value of the work, but so many only value it because they want to win, not because they want to make their kids win in life. The goal of schools, IMHO is to make the students successful that's the only metric that matters to me. I spent my time in school watching the goal of school being about: tuition, attendance, grades, style and reputation...but in the end too many of the students were lost once they left that nest.

I often feel like I am bottle size cork in a drainage pipe the size of a lake.