Hardest personal lesson learned?

[Michael Corsetto]

I've learned to focus my energies into my spheres of influence.

These past two years have been frustrating for me. I've watched FIRST split the Championship. California continues to stall on Districts. Our 24 FLL teams in Davis are nearly unanimously ready to quit due to poor local event structure.

I've barked up all those trees and quickly found that my feedback/advice for improvement is either unwelcome or falling on deaf ears.

I only have so many hours in a day. I've decided to focus my time on the students I can impact through my mentorship of 1678 and local leadership in the Davis community.

We are running summer camps based around Vex IQ to smooth out the transition to Vex IQ in the fall.

I've dropped off the local RPC, in favor of helping organize a local off-season FRC competition.

While it is hard to realize your feedback is not valued, it doesn't seem so hard when there are so many other groups and organizations that welcome your energy, experience and enthusiasm.

-Mike