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Re: Gracious Professionalism > Ungracious Unprofessionalism

Gracious Professionalism is supposed to be the backbone in FIRST competitions. When I talk about the program I explain how even though it's COMPETITIVE we still work TOGETHER. One of my fondest memories was 2003's NJ Regional. 1156 (from Brazil) was a rookie team as was 1089. Unfortunately, the team had to ship their robot in pieces and reconstruct it the Thursday of the regional. I remember 1089 and team 25 coming together with tools and help to put their robot back together.

After 56 won Philadelphia, 1089 had a large discussion about raising money for them to go to Nationals. Nationals, for me, was one of the best experiences I've had in FIRST and it's one of the main reasons I keep coming back. Everyone in FIRST deserves the opportunity to experience what I have. They too have worked hard on they're robot and are worthy opponents- they beat us !

Our team is about helping, inspiring, and overall just being friendly. What better way to show how we feel about FIRST than to do anything we can to support it?

Something Mr. Gregory said that I find inspiring is the following:

" [FIRST] is ultra-competitive, but the point is that you're not trying to out-do your competition off the playing field. You want every team to have the best chance that they possibly could have. It could mean different things at different times. We've had numerous cases where we'd help a team fix their robot only to face them in the next round. Why? We want a good round, and we'd hate to see someone have to forefeit because of a broken bot. Someone needs a sprocket? we're there... a spare motor? sure thing... and in return, we hope that other teams would do the same thing (and they often do)."
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