hrm? over addicted to a team / FIRST --- yep thats me
. I mean it isn't a bad thing to be addicted to something that you enjoy doing and enjoy helping others do what you have done. However you have to remember:
If your a graduated member from the team - you are considered a team alumni and are welcome to continue to support the team, just so long as you don't consider your self a team player. (Driver or any other Team Roles out there).
If your not a graduated member from the team [still in hs] - your addiction is not a huge problem b/c your coaches and captain / president expect to see you alot of work for the team. whether its just you or a group of people.
As my ex-coach would always tell the visitors going to see the team that have asked about past and current members.... "They would take the door off the hinges if I didn't let them in" this would apply for both the alumni & current members.
It has become tradition to wait in front of the school @ 6am and wait for the coaches to arrive so that robotics work can get underway. Normal Robotics close up time would be around 3:30pm if there wasn't a meeting. And during build season the days would usually end 6-7pm and continued work on a saturday / holiday if whether and school personal permitted.
As you can see by the above statements, It's quite normal to be a dedicated member b/c in the end the job gets done whether you helped / watched / or did it yourself. I wish that these so called Vet Teams could go up against multiple alumni teams.
For instance an "X" amount of team members from "X" amount of teams may form one team. and another set of team members from various teams may form another team etc...... After all the Alumni members have a team that they;re on. they may build a robot during build season and have a mini-compeitition going up against the regional champions / finalists and Championship Champions from the year b4. This would not only help solve some addiction but would also see how much we have learned from our coaches, and fellow teams in how to build a successful robot and team. However Funding may play an issue.
Reguardless this sounds like a decent idea.
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Past FIRST Robotics Events that I proudly volunteered at:
FLL: NY State Competition '03
FRC: NYC Remote Kickoff '04 & NYC Regionals '04-'15 ,'10-'13 & NJ Regionals '06-'10, Finger Lakes Regional '09 & SBPLI Regional '08-'15 and the World Championship in '05 (Galileo Field) '07 (Newton Field) '09 (Practice Fields Attendant / FTA(A)), CeBIT Convention in '04 & NextFEST in '06 both held @ the Javitts Center, Monty Madness '07-'10, Panda-monium '08, B.Eruption '08 & '09, Ramp Riot '08, PARC '09 & '10, BR^2 '09 & Wol. Inv. '09 -'15
2015 FIRST Robotics Off Season Events that I hope to volunteer at:
Where is Wolcott Invitational
2015 FIRST Robotics Events that I will be volunteering at:
SBPLI Reg. & Championships
Volunteer Resume:
Alt & Lead Team Queuer, Field Repair/Reset, Field Setup/Breakdown, Spare Parts Attendant, Field Power Controller/Score Keeper, Co-Emcee & Official Scorer, Control System Advisor, FIRST Tech Advisor Assistant & recently Practice Field Attendant.