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Re: Competition Professionalism
I'm a detail-oriented nerd, and not a good dancer. Not even a so-so dancer.
But I agree with Dave, Ed, Cathy, and many, many others who see the importance of celebration. Paying attention while executives and politicians speak to the crowd is a form of celebration, but dancing is much more immediate. Orders of magnitude more immediate.
At St. Louis yesterday, our field crew worked hard to get a few minutes ahead of schedule, so we could put all the team mascots out on the field for ten minutes of dancing right before the finals. The crowd seemed to enjoy it, and the teams still competing were probably glad to get the time without using one of their time-outs.
When we're doing things right, everyone at an FRC event should feel like dancing, even those who aren't good at it.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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