[nehalita]

Maybe the formula here is that there is no formula.

And honestly, when everything's said and done -- what are we going to remember in our past about robotics? No one can do everything on the team but each student has the ability to get as much out of the experience as he or she wants. FIRST gives me (and everyone else) an open opportunity -- if i wanted to learn something and I couldn't learn it from my own team, there are always other teams I can go to for assistance. That's the point!

It always boils down to WHAT YOU WANT and HOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT. If everybody adopts this attitude (with respect to other's wishes) everything can fall into place. Satisfied, Dissatisfied -- it's all in the eyes of the beholder -- and sometimes these views can't be shared because the experiencers and the passerbyers see two different things.

We (clearly) have our differences in this chat, but it's all about opening our eyes: to problems, to discordance, and to solutions.