[JaneYoung]

This is the level where we all aspire to be and while no one can ever live up to perfect....we should all try. Not only for ourselves but as a group. In order to change the world and make it a better place we must start with ourselves.

I know as a person I'm deeply flawed, but as a mentor I try very hard to model the behavior I expect from my team.

Now granted I'm still a rookie but I have never gotten the impression that anyone on CD thought they were better than the rest of the world.

Mr. Kamen was in Austin this past week visiting National Instruments. I attended his keynote presentation. It was regarding Innovation and his 6 Rudest Realities. He also talked to the techies and guests about FIRST, describing what it is and what his vision of it is. That engineers and scientists inspire young people in the fields of technology and science. He also talked about changing the culture so that more and more students want to get involved in these fields and aspire to be engineers and scientists. He talked about how bright and motivated the students in FIRST are.

I came away from listening to Mr. Kamen thinking more along the lines of what Wendy just stated. FIRST is in process of growing and developing, always. Look at VEX. Mentors and students are always in that same process.
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