How Do You Treat New Members/Freshmen ?

[Shelley_delphi chick]

My freshman year was the year after our team had won Nationals and most of the people on the team the year before had been seniors, so they were all gone. As a freshman girl, non the less, I became very well known around the shop. I knew how to work and opperate all the machines in the metal shop and most of them in the wood shop. No one my freshman year tormented me or hazed me, just because I was a freshman. Maybe being one of only 5 girls that was on the team then helped alittle, but still they gave me a job to do and I took care of it. My Sophmore year I walked into a captain position as the AV team captain and still maintaine that rule today. As a girl on the team I'm also Metal shop speacialist and our head teachers thrid arm and leg at times. He hates doing paper work and things are always in piles everywhere. I'm a complete neat freak.... AHHHHHHH The insanity!!



To all newbies that are joining a FIRST team........

Hold your heads high and don't let anyone tell you to shut up, sit down, and tell you your ideads don't matter. You are the future for FIRST and the future in science and technology. Live up to your fellow team members standards and walk into the seniors shoes that are leaving. Girls espically get in there and help those guys out, they'll respect you more when you know what you are talking about. Alittle dirt has never hurt anyone. Remeber what FIRST stands for and remember upperclassman you have people under you looking up to you and taking notes, don't act a fool!!