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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Congrats! I know every year when the robot first moves I cheer. This is my 7th season competing in FRC and my #1 goal is still "move".
Sir, you and your team obviously get it. Winning is great but the feeling of accomplishment and pride in seeing something you built with your own two hands out there competing is just something that can't be matched. Good Luck this season and in all your future seasons. (Sorry, you got bitten by the FRC bug, ask Richard, you can NEVER get out now)
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Andrew's right. I'm infected, along with hundreds of other CDers and FIRSTers.
The challenge is addictive, and seeing society be better off for it is all the more rewarding. I've known several people who came through the program to go on to do great things, myself included.
Its always very rewarding to see the device you and your team designed and built tested for the first time and it works beautifully.
I know with my own team, I drew an idea on Inventor the night of Kickoff (I stayed up till 4am doing it!). It was decided that we would end up building that idea into our robot, and its coming together now. I can't wait to see it work, and even moreso, I can't wait to see this design feature work on the field in competition.
You and your team "get" FIRST. Now the trick is to not lose sight of the real goals of the program. Get out there. Change your team, change your school, change your town, change the world. Make a difference, and make the world a better place for all of us.