Thread: Picking Drivers?
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Unread 12-10-2004, 19:42
Ryan M. Ryan M. is offline
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Re: Picking Drivers?
As Amy said, FIRST is voluntary. The students on your team aren't there because they are forced to; (well, I hope they weren't forced) they're there because they enjoy it. If you make them do something they don't want to do, do you think they're really going to have fun with FIRST? Some may just quit right then, others (I'd be one of them) wouldn't come back to your team next year, maybe I'd never be in FIRST again.

Yeah, sure, someone who doesn't want to be a driver may be the best, but does it matter? The point of FIRST isn't winning the regional champion or national champion trophy. The point of FIRST, at least in my humble opinion, is to expose students to engineering. I learned a lot from my first year with FIRST and I hope that I'll learn even more this year.

What I'm saying is that you don't need to have the "best driver" on the team be your driver to make the season great. It's what you try, not what you accomplish.
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