[kborer22]

team spirit goes so well because of the pride that everyone in first takes in what they accomplished! The first year that i actually built something that ended up on the robot was one of the proudest moments of my life. Just seeing somethign that your put blood sweat and tears into compete and hopefully suceed on a regional or national level is just amazing. Another goal of dean and woody was to promote teamwork, and i think that everyone can relate to how truly difficult this can be. Team spirit is a celebration of everyone surviving the 6 weeks with out killing eachother. The relationship you build with your teammates during the 6 weeks caries over as well, usually the more spirit the closer the team. I was on team 11 for the past 3 year(currently team 125) and when i started there was not much there in the way of spirit. As we came togeather as a team, and really felt confident in what we had built and accomplished each build season the team moral went up. Once you get a little taste of sucess, either winning an award, or just being complimented by the judges its amazing how quickly you can build spirit.