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Re: How do you keep your FIRST team a TEAM?
On our team, we come together because of the sense of fraternity. We all know what has to be done, and we split up and work. I think that many of us are propelled by the urgency and emergency of it all. Since our school, district, and city don't really care about us, we feel that in a way that we are proving ourselves. If you stop showing up, or fail to do anything useful, you leave. The key to staying a team is to establish very early that yes, this will be a lot of work. However, it will be fun, useful work that you'll carry with you to your college applications, your children, and to your grave. I would like to think that our team builds more people than robots.
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"Hey Mark, while you're out scouting, tell the other teams our robot has a Flux Capacitor"
"No. Even if we did, we lack both the plutonium power supply and the motors necessary to reach the 88 mph requirement for time travel. Besides, the Infinite Improbablility Drive is way cooler than the Flux Capacitor."
(commence 20 min argument)
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Being professional means doing things right. Being gracious means doing the right thing. They complement each other perfectly. But I think we should remember to use GP as a guide for our own behavior, not as a yardstick to measure others' shortcomings. - Alan Anderson [more] 
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