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[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

On my team, there are 4 students going to ATL on Wed. night. Some of them asked if they could go to the 'prom'. The answer was immediatly 'no', because the rest of the team wasn't there, and it would not be fair to them. Just because these students were fortunate enough to qualify to come early (the rest of the team is coming late thurs night to save $ on hotel) doesn't mean that you can go out and do things without the rest of the team. If the team doesn't go, you don't go. Period.

Ok, I think I see some definite contradictions here in this one statement. Why is this "elite" crew of 4 able to go early, and in that sense "going while the rest of the team doesn't go" and then denied the same seperate status as the rest of the team when it came to a non-FIRST sanctioned activity?

This is just telling the team members that they are there to work on FIRST related activities (uncrating the robot for instance) and nothing else?
FIRST is supposed to be "the hardest fun ever". Apparently (unless I am missing something here) your team has designated the "hardest" to the work category, and not the fun one. That's not right in my opinion.

But isn't this seperation from the rest of the team is also telling them that they are "special" and have that priviledge to go to the event early?

I don't understand this at all.

They made it, they qualified to go early, why not have an extra day of activities rolled into that? If they don't deserve the fun, why do they deserve the work?

An equal balance must be found between play and work.

Dean once made a good quote intergrating the popular Nike quote. His quote was as follows:
"Play Hard? I say Work Hard".

I personally say there has to be a balance to each for you to have fun and be sucessful in all you do.

I'm sure the students and mentors on 842 realized this, and thus a fair agreement was reached between the team that they obviously went with.

To all the people who say it's "sexist, or biased, or discrimination" towards the male members of 842, I would like an actual male student member of 842, or a whole bunch for that matter, to reply to that and give a true feeling about that.

No inhibitions.. Just tell us why you agreed with this descision (or if you didn't, feel free to tell us, but also explain why.. and how you felt when the team decided to do it anyways IF that was the case, and how your team came up with it from an insider's point of view.

And, as for my comments to 842.. I'm not going to say "you go girls!" for ditching the guys and competing themselves, and I'm not going to say "way to go guys" for letting the girls go on their own..
No siree, I'm not going to be accused of being biased one way or the other here like so many have already I will just say one thing to 842.

Great Job Team!!!