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Originally Posted by Philip W.
I hope to see that these upcoming posts answer yes to the question, "Is there really inspiration in teams?"
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Originally Posted by sciguy125
Well, I'm not really sure if I can give you that answer from our team. The engineering people learn things and are given new ideas from other teams. They see how things work in the engineering world. One saw crab drive and wanted to design/build it. However, we don't seem to really be bringing in new engineers, just solidifying the existing ones. So is 1351 inspiring people? I guess it depends on how you look at it.
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well i know i've been inspired. keeping this short, i wouldn't have the interest in software or programming if it wasn't for FIRST. and now I'm totally addicted to programming, and have way too many programming projects to do at the moment.
also, i'm sure some of the other people have been inspired, and would never have done or learned how to do some of the things they're doing now if it wasn't for being involved with FIRST.
(See Phil's post for 1351's info. This was just an addition about the are-we-inspired part...)
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Thanks for making FIRST such a great experience for me. I'm no longer on 1351, and I'm not currently planning to mentor team 97, but FIRST has meant so much in getting me to where I am now, in life and at MIT, class of 2011.
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