"The Power of a Positive Team" Message

[Joe Matt]

Well, I got this in my in box today from my team head, I think we should all read this over a few times. I am not the writer of this, it's from a team member/mentor in PA who is unidentified by my team head. Since it's not mine, I'll quote it....

In light of all of the very serious and highly important opposing team,
referee, and rules discussions, FIRST has determined that one final rule
needs to be added to the manual:

Rule <PCL 1.1>: All FIRST participants, both students and adults,
must use all of the personal time and energy they are currently devoting
to scrutinizing the game, the rules, referees, FIRST procedures, and
other teams and spend it instead on actively celebrating the positively
changed lives (known as PCL here after) that have resulted from
involvement in FIRST.

While PCL 1.1 compliance can occur in many ways, some suggestions are:
1. Thank your current fellow team members
2. Congratulate other teams on their success
3. Calculate the number of graduates from FIRST you have known and find
out what they are doing now
4. Read through the FIRST scholarships and realize each one represents a
changed life
5. List everything you now are capable of doing (real skills) that you
learned/developed in FIRST
6. Catch up with that one special student/mentor and have lunch
7. Have a team reunion
8. Actively seek out difficult situations so you can provide a role
model example of how to behave in adverse situations.

You must provide written evidence of these activities for all team
members at your team's next FIRST competition. Please submit these
documents with your BOM at robot inspection.

Let's ACTIVELY change the culture people and stay focused on the
mission, ESPECIALLY when we feel we've been wronged in what seems, at
that moment, to be a very "important" way.