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Originally Posted by KathieK
If you can impact just one person by your actions it will have a ripple effect that is infinite. That is reason enough to stick it out through the tough times.
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That is very true. It is also true in how I am impacted. Inspiration can happen at any time in any aspect of FIRST.
3. I wait for the connection. Some students enter robotics not quite sure about it. They are on the fringe, the periphery - circling the group, wondering what the interest is. Then something happens. Maybe a design discussion. Maybe the training in how to use power tools in the shop. Maybe seeing the wonder in a young child's eyes at an outreach. Something happens and triggers a connection with the student. Sometimes it takes more than one season but when that happens - a team member is created. That is what makes everything worth it.
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Excellence is contagious. ~ Andy Baker, President, AndyMark, Inc. and Woodie Flowers Award 2003
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller (1880-1968)