- Respect- Respect for one's self, and others.
- Unity- Working together, whether it be as a sub-team, the whole team, multiple teams, and anyone and everyone we meet. Whether it be working on a task or just being friendly working to have a good time
- Spirit- Doing everything in the "spirit" of FIRST, i.e. being GP, working as a team, general politeness and respect for the comptetion, etc.
- and Heart- Never giving up, even when the going gets tough or things seem hopeless. It's better to try and fail than to never try at all.
These are the Core Values under which Team
RUSH (get it?) operates.
Our team motto, which I realize isn't specifically a "Core Value" per se, also serves as a guide for our members: "Fail faster. Learn more. Focus and execute."
We also have our Team Mission Statement which is: "To develop leadership skills and increase real world experiences in an exciting environment so that our members become leaders in a global, 21st century knowledge economy dependent on math, science, and technology."
Now to answer your questions Ike.
Our core values are virtually inescapable if you're a member of Team RUSH, since their part of our team's name, and as such, along with out motto and mission statement, are documented fairly extensively.
If you asked any member of our team what our core values were, or what our mission statement was, I'm confident that every student would be able to provide the above answers.
Though our core values were named before my time on the team, I know for a fact great effort was put into making them line up well with FIRST's core values. I know for a fact our mission statement was developed with FIRST's mission in mind since it was created at our 2008 (or maybe 2009, I can't remember for certain) team retreat.