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Re: College FIRSTers: What was your transitional year?

my year off was kind of forced upon me. i wanted to help my old team, 573, but they were forced to take a year off for a variety of reasons. also the fact that im 1.5 hours away didn't help much. the other reason was that Michigan State didnt really have any teams close by. but even so, the year off helped me adjust to college life and get my priorities straight. now that we have started a team here at MSU im glad to be back into the mix of things, this time helping the kids have the same great experience i had
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Re: College FIRSTers: What was your transitional year?

After four years of intensive work on a robotics team, I wanted to keep going. However because I am not allowed to join my own team which is the closest one within 50 miles of my college. I will not be able to join a team until next year.

I really hated the idea of not being in FIRST. I actually went through a lot of panic of what I am going to do with all of my time. However once the build started, it became a lot easier to accept that I would not be joining a team and that the 2005 FIRST season would not fully involve me. There are a lot of times where I miss being on a team, however it is quite nice to have the free time and focus on college.

I still go back occasionally to check out how my old team is doing, however when I go back I lose interest quite quickly since I am not able to get involved.

I still plan on going to a regional or two and possibly nationals and I look forward to possibly joining a team next year. But as for now it is almost nice to have a break.
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Re: College FIRSTers: What was your transitional year?

My transitional year was more of a timespan that encompassed many events, that not only changed me in FIRST, but made me as an individual grow up faster than expected. I went from an EXTREMELY over involved FIRST-a-holic student driver/operator traveling to all the off-seasons, scouted additional Regionals with my floor crew, headed up my scouting team, etc, etc.

Suddenly, I was unsure of what to do at 17 years old, getting ready to graduate high school, my driver career was concluding after such a long time, I was going away to school, and I was suddenly falling ill on top of everything. I panicked, I pulled myself out of my teams "happenings" and devoted myself to my schooling, my health, and my life in general.

Last Spring, Greg started with his reffing. I never really though it would take us to far. We ended up traveling as far as York, and he was invited to more and more places throughout the year. After spending the Summer and Fall around FIRST again, I just knew I couldn't spend another season away from it.

I am no longer going to be just "another teenager", while knocking on the door of twenty, I have decided to pull things together, and get back to my team this year to help out as much as I can. It has been very different though, I am no longer able to do the things I did for so many years. While I enjoyed working on the machines and fabricating, I think it has helped to "mentor" a different area of the team.
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Re: College FIRSTers: What was your transitional year?

Well i think that year has hit me...

For the last year i have been thouroghly involved with team 134 from Pembroke, NH...however this year seemed to turn a lot of new corners i never expected, IE being heavily employed at my job, and always having a class fall over the scheduled meeting times...i just havent been able to give that 120% i had given last year, unfortunate, yes, however there is more to FIRST then being a diehard. Granted i was one for 5 years, i now have seen that getting good grades leads to more opprotunities in life, while building robots only goes so far.
Now i dont want to make it feel like im not a supporter of the program, but i found that this year is my year to gather my priorities and focus on school, and my darling above me in this thread...

However, I will be attending the BAE regional with 134 to help in the Pits again

I will also be attending Pittsburgh to work that regional as well

and i am also planning to attend Nationals as staff or as a freelancer..

Hope everyone has a great semester, and bon voyage!
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Re: College FIRSTers: What was your transitional year?

My transitional year is this year.

I worked with 151 for 4 years, I mentored last year, but this year I just didnt feel it. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with my life, and it doesnt seem to be working, I'm trying to find a job so I can have some money in the back for whatever I do, but now that is starting to get tough. I'll figure it out eventually though, I always do.
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Re: College FIRSTers: What was your transitional year?

My "transitional year" was last year. I had been a student on 201 for three years (2001-2003), and then graduated and came here to the University of Michigan. Following the 2003 season, 201's teacher moved to a different school, and most of the student leadership graduated. Seeing a lack of experienced membership on the team, I decided to come back part-time to help ease the transition and bring some much-needed expertise. Unfortunately, somewhere in there, things didn't quite work out as planned. I basically spent most of my time filling more of a student role than a mentor role, which was neither my goal, nor my intentions at the beginning of the 2004 season.

After weeks of feeling unappreciated and underutilized, I realized that I was trying to recreate my high school team, which didn't really exist anymore. I stuck around through the end of the season, to fulfill the committment I made in January, but I knew that is was the end of my time with 201.

Though my experience that year was slightly less than satisfactory, it taught me a great many things about how to and how not to be a mentor. I think it took a year like that for me to fully grasp the difference between being a student and being a mentor, and I'm probably better off for it. Now I'm mentoring a local team here in Ann Arbor, and I feel that my "transition" if not complete, is on the right track.
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Re: College FIRSTers: What was your transitional year?

In a different sense, that year is kind of this year for me. At nationals in 2002, I met up with a student on Wildstang that was also coming to MSOE and wanted to continue with FIRST. When we got here, we started the MFSO (Milwaukee FIRST Support Organization) - a student organization dedicated to giving past FIRSTers and newcomers alike a chance to stay involved with FIRST on a new level as mentors, volunteers, sponsors....whatever. For the 2003 season, there were only a handful of teams in the Milwaukee area so we traveled to many local high schools and eventually found some interest at South Milwaukee HS.

Unfortunately we all rushed into it. While we all had fun (students and mentors alike), the organization of the team was a disaster and we spent more time being frustrated than being inspired. The kids learned a lot (at least I think they did) as we rebuilt our drive train 6 or 7 times through the course of two regionals.

For this first year, Lauren (the girl from Wildstand mentioned above) was the Team Leader. At the conclusion of the season, she stepped back and handed the reigns of the team and club to me. While I was hesitant about the club, I accepted. The team, however, should have been in the hands of the teachers but they would not take the responsibility. Now I was a sophomore, had some of the hardest classes ever during the build season, was running a team, going to meetings 5+ days a week, and generally being burned out. To be honest, I still have no idea how I made it through. To make a long story short, while we did much better, the student involvement dropped off severely and thusly, Team 1064 is on indefinite hiatus. Hopefully it will be back one day with a renewed zeal, but I will not be around for that day.

On to this year: I had nothing to do with FIRST as of New Year's day. By the time Kickoff rolled around, I finally found a local team to latch on to: rookie team 1675 (Rufus King HS and GE Medical). This was a team that I could finally JUST be a mentor for. Once I met the engineer and kids, I knew that it would be a great fit. As a junior in winter quarter at MSOE, I am swamped with design projects, tons of homework, and the worst exams I have ever experienced (and I hear they get better ). But, as just a mentor that doesn't have to worry about administrative duties, I feel so much more free than the last two years (even with the super secret project the MFSO is working on for possibly release to the masses in the next year or so...). The team is great, the kids are extremely involved, enthusiastic, and eager to get things done as long as you point them in the right direction.

So I am still quite involved, but not nearly as much as I have been, and I have a renewed love of FIRST because of it - one that I had hoped to experience two years, but good things take time I guess! Now my only dilemma is nationals...its the same weekend of my steel bridge competition nationals, which, as a structural engineer, should take priority, but if the team qualifies for nationals and the bridge team has its 6 competitors, I REALLY want to go to nationals...but at least one of those is a really big IF. Time will tell...

See you in Chicago!

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