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Re: Gracious Professionalism or NOT?

This really does not have as much to do with Gracious Professionalism.

I'll break it down for you. What messages do you send when you put your awards on a shirts?

1) If done humbly, you help build up your team morale. It helps motivate existing members and new/upcoming members will presume that you are a "successful" team. This is good.

2) You help your schoolmates realize that you have some success backing you as long as you don't brag about it. This is good for your school.

3) You help friends, family, acquaintances, and the like know that you have some success. This is also good as long as you don't brag about it.

4) I assume you will also list a few sponsors. Yes, this is also good. Most sponsors LOVE recognition. I would check with them first though. A couple of them did not want to be on any of our promotional material.

5) Ten years from now, when you happen to stumble across this shirt while you are building a shuttle for NASA, you will realize that this is where it all started.

I am not going to list more. You should see where I am going with this. Having at least one team shirt with many accomplishments listed is extremely valuable in my opinion.

In short, should you list your sponsors, names, awards and accomplishments on you shirt? HECK YES. Just don't brag about it verbally and always carry a humble attitude. It is almost guaranteed to work in your favor.
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