[Bomberofdoom]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

Usually what happens in the case of new kids like freshmen, they slack off during build season and our pre-season workshops called MORT University, but when they arrive at a competition and can't help out they realize what they have to do for next year and want to get more involved. Seeing the performance of other robots can inspire you to take part in your own robot more.

-Akash

Indeed, that's what's going on in our team. Suddenly I'm hearing rookie team members starting to come around me and saying "Next year, we'll do it! we talked about it and we agreed we'll do our best! we'll do this, and this and that and etc...". I'm hearing this also from 9th graders in our FLL teams, who most of them want to join the FRC team next year (and I'm starting to think we might need more room to fill in our team(~40 members!) ).

I'm was entirly pleased to hear that there are FIRST members that are very motivated towards next year, and I want to help them have their best next year (which will be my last as a student team member ).

That's why I'm gonna' plan an overall meeting for all those interested in FIRST in our school and we'll sit and talk about what has been with FIRST in our school, in our city, Herzliya; talk about what's our current state and what do we have to do next year, what we're thriving to do next year and what we can do. Hopefully that meeting will spark the first team goals ideas for the FRC and FLL team(s) in our school and will bring us to realize we need to start working now and work hard along the year to succeed in what we want, which in short, is our motivation.

motivation brings things done, things done quickly allow for more time on making things better, completing other things and etc., and those bring you the road to victory (which still requires full attention (which can only be brought through motivation).)

What I'm trying to say?
First years don't allways work. Pre-seasons and workshops help motivate, but the main motivation comes after participating in the competition, like he said.