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Re: Anybody really dis-like the game?
A key word to keep in mind when participating on an FRC team is: flexibility.
The game changes year to year, creating a large part of the challenge. If you want to think about impact, think about AndyMark. How would a change like this impact them? Think about how important it is to have technical mentors as part of the team and how that impacts through challenges like this. Think about networking and how important that is.
Working as an alliance on the field during competition can be representative/reflective of how to interact/work together as professionals off the field. Chief Delphi is one example, the Blue Alliance is another (and weren't they spectacular yesterday, woo?!), NASA's incredible, amazing support throughout the year. These folks have to be flexible in the real world, real time. Look at the adjustments that Brandon Martus continued to make to the website yesterday so that FIRSTers and guests could continue to share insight, opinions, information.
Flexibility. For second year teams transitioning from a 2008 rookie year, try to keep in mind that 2008 is past and 2009 is present. Stay in the present. Use the past as a reference/resource but not as a rigid mindset that narrows the possibilities/opportunities that the present offers you.
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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)
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