I completely agree. Our club mission, verbatim, is:
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Our mission is to help students experience the practical implementation of science and technology through the process of constructing a robot, and to interest them in the greater technological world.
Retrieved from: http://www.saintsrobotics.com/about/mission/
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But after last year, there's quite a bit of loss in faith in the club by those who are completely dedicated to the club out of passion, because our club painfully clearly is not geared toward fulfilling that mission, but rather on winning. Winning should be (or is) just the medium by which the mission is achieved, though winning certainly does build interest.
It seems that our mission is a noble placeholder stuck on our website meant to gain support for the club. There are few people in the club that "get it": gracious professionalism, FIRST's mission, our mission, all of it. There is a reason why the Chairman's Award is more prestigious than the Championship trophy...
But this year and likely for the next few years, it looks like we're finally getting some members, including a mentor, who really "get it" into the leadership. Hopefully, our team is heading in the right direction...
P.S. The members of our team who care enough to extend outside the bounds of our team, i.e. look up teams on TBA, check CD, view past videos have this idol worship of Michigan teams (esp. 33/67) and Team IFI. I'm not an exception
