[RoboMom]

This spring, like in past years, FIRST will be holding team forums to get feedback from a designated mentor from each of the teams in an organized process. Criticism is ok as long as it is constructive and comes with solutions. It also helps to hear what things were done right. So start your list now, and then when the time gets closer, after the season, prioritize each item, given the whole picture. If you don't have a team forum near you, or a mentor can't attend, and you don't have a FIRST Senior Mentor in your area, I would be happy to make sure your organized and constructive opinions are heard. This is how we can all help FIRST understand what it is like, to be part of a team and in the trenches. Sometimes things that seemed like a big deal at the time, turned out to be minor in the big picture. And vice versa. This goes for the technical and non-technical aspects of running a team.