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Re: Where was the GP at Championships?

This is one reason, perhaps, to expand the ways in which veteran teams mentor rookie teams.

Some rookie teams have mentors who were previously involved in FIRST; our lead mentor was an FLL coach before our FRC team was started, and the rookie team we mentored this year was an FRC judge and FLL coach. On these teams, consequently, GP was a core value from the beginning, taught to the students from day one. Our team has never, to my knowledge, had a severe problem concerning a lack of GP from either student or mentor.

On teams which lack mentors with some kind of FIRST experience, however, it might be harder to wrap their collective heads around a concept of which they've never heard. I realize that it is not just rookie teams who occasionally fail to display GP - not by a long shot. However, ensuring that true rookie teams - the ones with no prior FIRST experience - understand GP and its importance could go a long way toward keeping the level of GP high within FIRST. Once a rookie team grasps the concept of GP, they are much more likely to continue passing it on to their future team members.
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