What's your goal? ( seniors mostly)

[who716]

Now that kickoff is less the two weeks away. Many of the senior students are looking at an Increased leadership role. For this upcoming year what goals have you sent to make sure your last season is your best one?

This year I'm going to be leading my own subgroup with 3-4other students. I'm really looking forward to this opportunity not only for the Life skills I will learn. But also for the skills I will teach.

Mine are simple with our smaller team I'm going to focus really hard on giving my skills away to the younger members. Therefore I help out the future of the team, but I will still feel like I'm part of the team as my skills would be used over and over again.

As much a I want to remain a student on such a great team being part of a great organization. My time is vastly approaching to hang up my safety glasses for the last time. 2014 is my last attempt at leaving a lasting remark on my team.. Gotta make it count!

What do you want to accomplish and be remembered By?

[Coin3]

I just really want everyone on my team to enjoy the FIRST experience. My role as the captain this year is full of responsibilities considering the small size of our team and only having one mentor. I'll try my best to inspire my teammates to do their best and have fun while fully being a part of what FIRST is. I feel like that essence of spirit has been missing from our team.

I myself already feel connected to the FIRST community so I would like to make the best of the season by putting my all into producing a simple and reliable robot. It would be fantastic to be able to show our new sponsors that our team is capable of great teamwork.

Senior year shall be the best year for me in terms of robotics for sure. I cant wait to get started!

[Pault]

I'm a Junior, but I'm gonna post in this thread anyways because this is something I have thought about for a while.

During my Freshman year, I was pretty much just following along for the ride, as most freshman do. I didn't really think to much about my role and goals as a team member, I just kinda was happy to be part of the group and have fun and learn something and accomplish something. And it was great and inspiring. After the Boston regional (probably the best experience of my entire life so far), I knew that engineering was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

During my Sophomore year, I started to understand more about what FIRST really is. I had been browsing Chief Delphi over the summer, and I begun to realize that this isn't just some random robotics competition, it is so much more than that. It beckoned the question: why should I still be on my team? I am already inspired, what justification do I have to take away work and mentor attention from another student who is more in need of the inspiration. And I remember the answer came to me when I was filling out the student survey for the NASA grant, sometime during October, and I got to the question: "What is you goal participating in FIRST?" (heavily paraphrased). I am part of my team now because I want to help inspire others. By being a role model and helping to make the robot better, I can contribute to this great mission that FIRST has. And ever since then I have stuck to this reasoning. I am not perfect, and so often times I will do things that are kind of selfish and not necessarily geared towards inspiring others. But that is just part of the flawed human condition, and in the end what matters is that I am trying to do good.

So now it's my Junior year, and I am captain of my team. Nothing has really changed. However, one thing that the OP mentioned is trying to make your last year in FIRST count. Back in my Sophomore year, I was upset because I knew that I could only get four years as a student. But now, I don't think that way, because I know I will be coming back to FIRST as a mentor in order to continue inspiring. And honestly, I think I am more eager to be a mentor than I am to be a student. So my graduating year is not going to seem like an ending to me but rather a new beginning.

Win.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

Win.

Yeah, that basically sums up my goals too.