The Meaning of FIRST

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In our team students do most of the things. Mentors do purchasing, scheduling and paper work and software setup on laptop/netbook. Students come up with design, have sub-teams review with mentor and other sub-team. Discuss alternate approach, decide on what we can do in 6 weeks, decide on nice to have features. Get to work, fabricate and assemble, we have basic tools, does not require much training. When mentor sees something may not work, he will gather the team discuss the potential problem and guide in possible solution. If he has no answer, we sleep on it for a later day. Our aim is not to win and go to championship, if we can design and build something is ready to compete, we will be proud. We win some matches and lose some...its life. When we get award, we thank judges for recognizing our efforts. We too come from FLL background our mentors then guided us to do everything, the followed FLL by book. No complaints. This is who we are.