
23-04-2008, 21:05
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Deadlines? What are those?
AKA: Stephanie
 FRC #0639 (Code Red Robotics)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Rookie Year: 2005
Location: Ithaca, NY
Posts: 796
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Re: Where was the GP at Championships?
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Originally Posted by gillejr
The more and more I read about GP I swear it’s become some sort of god like behavior. If you just give people common courtesy, and treat others like you want to be treated, you will be GP. It’s not a new concept, its just something that is stressed a lot more than normal in this program then other programs.
Also let’s face some facts, this is a sport, and there will be some bad blood between people sometimes, rivalries will occur, some heated discussion, and many other things that always happen in sports. But that doesn’t mean you can’t keep your head on, and there never is an excuse for being rude to someone who is doing their job.
Face it some people are total jerks, and probably will never change. But yea, it is kind of sad.
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I fully agree that there are some things you just can't avoid in any program, and that some instances of undesirable behavior will occur no matter what we do. HOWEVER, Dean has made numerous references in speeches at kick-off to the guard we should all take against allowing certain trappings of the world of sports - the undesirable aspects - to creep into FIRST.
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Originally Posted by Dean Kamen, 2007 Kick-Off
So I'm begging all of the mentors that no matter how exciting and intense the competitions are getting, like other sports, one day we will be the sport, the 21st century sport that's part of the culture everywhere.
I'm begging all of you to remember we have a much bigger set of goals to keep at the front of our mind all the time, than when your robot wins or loses.
Some of the robots will lose.
Some of them won't even run.
But all of the participants should be winners, they will be winners if we keep track of what's really important.
So my first message is just for all of you veterans, it's the booster shot.
First is an extraordinary group of people doing an extraordinary thing, lets not ever lower our standards or forget why we do this.
And for the students, I remind all of you, we don't want any of the trappings of sports that frankly are an embarrassment or inappropriate for things as important as what we are doing here and helping create the next generation of people that will determine the fate of the world.
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Despite the fact that it wouldn't be hard to allow these things to slip in as we get bigger, it's our job to prevent it from tarnishing such a life-changing program.
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Proud alum of FRC Team 1629 and mentor of FRC Team 639
Cornell Engineering class of 2012!!
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