A survey for FIRST Robotics Students

[Lisa Perez]

1. It has given me an insight into the opportunities that our world holds, not just in the field of engineering but also in the business area. It's helped me to learn what time management, cooperation, enthusiasm, and responsibility are.

2. I'll most likely still be machining and CADing once I graduate from college.

3. As project manager, I learned how to successfully manage tasks and sub-tasks so as to ensure that each part of the team fully finished its goal on time.

4. Commitment, being open to the ideas of others, compromise, delegation, planning

5. The most difficult part of robotics was when people would refuse to be open-minded to others' ideas, thus delaying the design/build process.

6. The most important part of being on a robotics team, for me, is being able to not work as a group of individuals, but rather, as one union.

7. It is important that there are more teams in the future because the youth of our world need to be given the opportunity to use their minds to the fullest. There is so much talent out there - it just needs to be used for the better.

8. Sponsors give teams the confidence that somebody (besides schools and families) supports them. They add to the overall team spirit.

9. A good mentor is someone who will not be afraid to get into the chaos of things and serve as an example, someone who will make sure everyone is involved in some way or another.