What an interesting and timely subject.
Team 237 hosted a rookie team (1784 Litchfield HS) at last nights meeting. They are a startup with very limited exposure to this wonderful process called FIRST. They joined based on somebody taking their ears off about FRC and attending UTC last year. Their mentors are all new to this process. They are worried about being able to pull this off.
We had a wide-ranging conversation about how to build, what tools you really need, how to fund raise, what comes in the KOP and what their expectations should be for their rookie year. It was a great conversation. You can learn a lot by talking to rookies.
What do we all expect to get out of this? It's about the process. It's about compressing life into 6 weeks. It's about doing. It's about learning to fail. It's about gracious professionalism. It's about releasing the limitations that we all put on ourselves. It's about thinking outside of the box. It's about growing.
Perhaps we all need to talk to rookies, they are the ones that see this for what it's about.
Also For those that did not read all of Waynes post this is what you missed
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It doesn't really matter about the robot. It is the team that they build that is the important accompliishment...
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The extra button could also just be a spare, but that's far less interesting than other possibilities, so let's keep speculating. - Caleb Sykes [more] 
19-10-2005, 07:38
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