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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
You cannot say "this year Im going to do the best I can to inspire these students to be engineers" and with the same breath then say "and this year Im going to do everything I can to win the championship".
They are opposite goals, opposite directions. You run toward one only by turning your back on the other.
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"This year i'm going to inspire these students to be engineers, by showing them how to do everything we can to win the championship. By showing them how to play the game put before us, the engineering challenge given us, I will inspire them."
The mechanism given us to inspire the students IS the competition. I'm always shocked when people rant that being competitive and striving to win is against the goals of FIRST.
By striving to achieve more, we grow and learn together. We learn to be competitive, in struggling to achieve more we are forced to evolve and learn more. The students see this, and they understand; to be competitive, I need to be better. To be better, I need to work hard and learn more.
The desire to compete drives them to work.
This desire, inspires.
I've been there.
-JV
An athlete who is inspired to be more competitive works harder at being an athlete. A FIRST student who is inspired to be more competitive works harder at learning.