[Adama]

This year the team I am a alum and mentor of won the Industrial Design award. As a mentor it means a lot knowing you showed the students a very loose concept of a robot and got to watch the students evolve it into an award winning design.

I can say that it feels good knowing the founding members (my self included) hard work has laid a foundation for a team that assuming we retain the same level of parent and teacher involvement we have now, will rarely have a bad year. In prior years/teams those same founding members had been through a lot of bad robots, organization and horrific school politics. Hopefully, the students on the team now will never have to see or be part of that kind of un-fun and un-FIRST like experience.

So in general I would have to say its just different.