Going back to the original post, every team does have their problems. Obviously, being in Brazil you have more to deal with being isolated from us in Canada and USA, but IMO, that is part of the challenge for you.
Our team does have our problems. We had problems being a student-run team (not student-run as Alaina was saying where I am the dictator, but minimal staff support from the school). As well two people on our team have started dating .. hopefully for the better (seeing as one of them is my cousin) and that i told them both at the beginning that if the relationship goes bitter, they are still working together.
also, i think that every team member has to remember people in teams do clash and you have to deal with it. also, to remember, because the six weeks are so stressful, people may snap at you, but they might not mean it, so keep in mind that they might not be mad at you and dont be too sensitive if this happens.
Good luck with sorting out the travel problems.
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
so heres an idea, if you attend a local regional, FIRST can collect an extra fee ($100 maybe?) from each local team to help fund the most distant teams - esp international teams, who dont (yet) have the convienance of attending a local regional event?
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not that we dont want to help, so dont take this that way, but i do not think that some of the teams will be able to do this. i mean, i know that our team is extremely low budget, we were not going to make our registration fee deadline and we only did because of a $5000 US
loan from our school. We now owe our school $6,658.64 CDN and have only received $3500 CDN in sponsorship money, which is needed for our robot and meetings. so even though we would love to help out Brazilian teams, we are actually unable to.
ps- I think this thread should be moved to the Team Organization Forum.