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Unread 17-01-2006, 12:21
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Re: History of Team Spirit

Team spirit is all about having fun. People at work don't understand why I have a little yellow rubber Thunderchicken hanging on my wall, a collection of little LEGO people on my monitor, a bone with "173" written on it... but when I'm having a tough day I just have to glance at these odd objects and I am instantly brought back to Hartford or Houston or Atlanta... The days of the MOEsticks may be gone but they will live on in FIRST history, along with other team spirit items that will take their place.
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Re: History of Team Spirit

team spirit is all about coming together as a team and forming a bond. being on the same page with every one on the team is ideal. you could start by asking what does your team want to do and how they want to be spirited. we normally cheer, use shakers(made out of empty waterbottles, with popcorn seeds or beads), dance and just come together as a team. another thing that plays a role in why we team 47 get so many spirit awards is our diversity. spirit is but isn't about who or who is not the loudest. spirit is about how your team reflects what first is all about. last year we won the national spirit award in Atlanta but we were kind of outcheered. but there were so many roles that we filled that put us over the top. we walked around the georgia dome cheering if anybody recalls but that did not help we were courteous in the pit we showed the example of safety and common courtesy we were diverse and we bonded with each other for great teamwork. Our team usually does drills in the offseason meetings and that kind of gels us together so you guys should consider some of these things it might work.



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Re: History of Team Spirit

I think its more than just teamwork and bonding.

There are two phases to this program. We start off separately, designing and building our bots, each team at their own location. You get a great deal of satisfaction when you see your bot doing what you designed it to do, then crate it up and ship it off. A very real sense of completion and accomplishment right there.

But then you get to your 1st event, and you walk around and see all the different robots, all the different ideas, all the different people from around the world who have taken on the same problems and challenges

its as if the time and energy we have all put into our machines all comes together and takes on a life of its own. The thousands of man-hours we have put into our designs is all focused in a 130 second match.

Team spirit - thats what defines it for me - our collective invested life-force over the last two months is combined, and it explodes into the arena!
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Re: History of Team Spirit

yeah our engineer mr aubry and our coach mr martus always tell us that when we are at the hotel and having our routine nightly meetings. they always say "cmon guys this is your machine be proud of what you have done and cheer for it what did you build it for" and i agree with them because when our robot is out on the field i feel like a million dollars because i have put so much time and effort in it and you just want to cheer
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Re: History of Team Spirit

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As for team spirit I think it has gone down a little (at least in NE) over the past several years. In 1997 and 1998 when the regional was in New Hampshire there were shouting cheers (We've got spirit, etc.) going across the gymnasium and everyone was involved. When the competition was moved to Hartford teams tried to continue this but Meadows was a terrible spectator arena and noise didn't travel that well. The one year the competition was in New Haven the team spirit seemed to pick up and I think this is because it was easy to have cheer wars across the field.
Hopefully this will pick up again, seeing that the UTC New England Regional isn't at the Meadows anymore, but rather at the new Connecticut Convention Center.

As for team spirit, if you watch this video from the 1993 Competition, the level of team spirit is more than evident. The level of team spirit then was probably as much as it is now.
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Hopefully this will pick up again, seeing that the UTC New England Regional isn't at the Meadows anymore, but rather at the new Connecticut Convention Center.

As for team spirit, if you watch this video from the 1993 Competition, the level of team spirit is more than evident. The level of team spirit then was probably as much as it is now.
It's funny watching FIRST in the past and the Championship was no bigger than an off season event.
It really has grown in leaps and bounds.
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Re: History of Team Spirit

I remeber my first competition in FL at the epcot center in 2001 (i think) and there was so much spirit. It was just 2 tents in a parking lot, but the comradity, and freindship among the teams was amazing, one team asked to interview us to find out about our robot and had a little lounge in the corner of the tent with bean bag chairs, there was a team with a large twister board set up which was easily one of the most fun things at the competition (besides the robots of course).
I didnt get to see any spirit that i liked beter than my first year, although 2 years later in the palmetto regional, the spirit was amazing. And the year after that, and hopefully this year also (yay for mentors)
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Re: History of Team Spirit

Spirit when we think of Spirit all of us through out FIRST think that it about cheering in the stands or wild t-shirts or jewelry of buttons. That is what our outward experssion of spirit. But true spirit is when you unified with you team when you don't see your team as a team but a family. First is all about family. Our spirit is outward at competition but spirit starts from the first day you join and team and never ends until the day you die.
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Re: History of Team Spirit

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It's funny watching FIRST in the past and the Championship was no bigger than an off season event.
It really has grown in leaps and bounds.
Great job Koko ED, the video is amazing. I will shared it with my Spirit group. Especially, with our engineers they will be greatful.
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Thanks but the credit goes to team 228, not I.
I'm trying to see if I can get the 1992 file uploaded (141 meg might not take).
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Thanks but the credit goes to team 228, not I.
I'm trying to see if I can get the 1992 file uploaded (141 meg might not take).
Actually... the credit goes to Venkatesh from the 1993 Rug Rage article in http://www.firstwiki.org. The link to the video is from there. I just reposted the link here for everyone to see.
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Re: History of Team Spirit

I think the cheering comes naturally. If people can go to a sporting event and cheer on their team with all that energy just because that team happens to be from their town, why not cheer on something that you put blood, sweat, and tears into? (Just... not in the electronics, please.)

I remember my team's first year, our robot was somewhat pitiful (hey, it ran) but we cheered hard that year. We hadn't thought to bring anything to help cheer, but we cheered anyway to see our creation competing. (In a manner of speaking.)

I think euphoria is natural when you see something you worked on do what it's supposed to. (Finally.)
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Re: History of Team Spirit

Well last championship when we won (Chief Delphi), we were all so surprised no one on our team thought we would even come close to winning the national spirit award. The feeling you get when your team is annouced your heart feels like it droped. I know alot of other teams deserved to win it and i wonder why our team was picked. Spirit keeps the competition going and makes things more fun then they already are. you also get to meet more interesting people and that is always cool.
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^ WOW! that has to be the greatest FIRST documentary video ever

and its all right there, in the very first year - and people picked up on it - the teamwork, the sportsmanship, having a greatest time doing the hardest work youve ever done

one person in the video even called it out specifically, "an intangible spirit" that developed on the team

its also great to see all the people in that first year who have influenced so many people and teams over the years: Gene Wicks, Ron Duke (looking very Jr :^), Christeen, and did I see Peter Debbs (Jeffs Debbs brother? founder of a team in Rochester?)

so many connections.

Feb 13th, 1992 Manchester NH -its on my list now - when I get my time machine done, thats one of the places I have to go :^)

and by the way, who was that kid with the beard who looks like Dean Kamen?
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