As the season approaches...

[Arefin Bari]

As the season approaches to us, I would like to remind everyone on the forum again about the newbies . As always we will have new members here who will try to learn things and may post same thing twice, please be polite and let them know how to use the search feature on the site (even if it takes one personal message). The reason I am reminding you this is because I have been there at one point of time when I didn’t know the rules myself, made a lot of mistakes and have had mentors/engineers/college students/members of the site pm me, send me messages about the mistakes. I didn’t take them as a personal attack, rather took it as a lesson. That is the reason I am still a part of the community. Once a rookie or a newbie is upset about something, it is very hard to bring them back here. I am going to use an example here, Mike Sorrenti from Sie-H20-bots (team 237); a high school freshman is a great programmer. He programmed that robot like nothing, and we all know about it. He has shown us what a smart freshman can do in one season. We want the members to stick around, learn, and get inspired. Because this is the generation that will be controlling the community and FIRST soon as well as teach the next generation and inspire them.

With that being said, I welcome everyone to join me to help/inspire the newbies here on the forum throughout the season. Thanks.