What Makes a FIRST Team Successful?

[Bharat Nain]

A team can define success for themselves in many ways. If a team has most of their team graduating into science and technology universities and colleges, the team is successful in promoting the notions of FIRST(Most teams, hopefully). If a team is good at promoting themselves, they are successful at that(E.g. MOE for green). If a team is good at winning, they are successful with the game(E.g. 71 Beatty). I think every team needs to decide what they want to be successful at. It is not likely that there will be a team that is good at EVERYTHING. Therefore teams needs to analyze what they are good at and capitalize on it. Because not all teams are lucky and are bounded, they should at least embrace the values of FIRST and promote science and technology. But then, Everyone makes mistakes. New ones every year. But they learn through the process and pass on the knowledge to other teams and the community. To me, any team that operates sanely or insanely(thats 95%) is successful. They just need to operate consistently. Here in team 25, thats our focus. As we say in RINOS, "We build FIRST to last".