[JaneYoung]

It is good to embrace who you are and where you come from. How much experience your team has garnered. The personality and makeup of the team. To find the rhythm of FIRST and to establish the team rhythm. When these are understood, then team members can enter and leave as new members and as graduates yet the consistency of understanding is there and is handed down through time and mentoring. A first year team can not have gained the experience of the 7th year team - it takes all the 7 years of growth, build, competition, working on the different aspects of FIRST. And it takes patience and humor while growing. It's the journey that is the true value and it is that which will sustain you. The teams that achieve the Chairman's are worthy and have found ways to understand and work on all of the aspects and have been patient. No easy task.

Edit: I'm sorry, I'm not saying only an older more experienced team can garner the CA but I am saying experience is a great help in the effort and it is the teacher.