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Re: Gracious Professionalism
Posted by Lora Knepper.
Student on team #69, HYPER, from Quincy Public Schools and The Gillette Company.
Posted on 1/12/2000 5:34 PM MST
In Reply to: Gracious Professionalism posted by Kate on 1/12/2000 11:57 AM MST:
I want to commend you Kate for expressing my feelings completely! As a student, I first thought the competition was about winning. Very quickly, however, I learned that FIRST is everything but winning. I have been inspired to follow a career in engineering (I'm would like to go to WPI =) and I hope to continue in FIRST through my college years, to share the lessons I have learned with others. FIRST is my life, it is where my heart is. For all it's ups and downs, I will forever be a part of FIRST. I find your comments to be offensive to the project I have dedicated my future to. If you truly feel this way about the game, perhaps you should step back and think about the changes in the students. Regardless of the game, it is the kids who benefit from this experience. The alliance system you hate so much, has allowed me to make friends I would have never met otherwise. You are truly missing the point of the competiton, sir, and I beg you to look in the eyes of the students on your team as they build and design in these weeks ahead. And then watch them at a competiton, watch how they cheer for their creation, the machine that they built. Is the game really that important?
Lora Knepper
Team 69 (HYPER)
(Helping Youth to Pursue Engineering and Robotics)
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I GET that FIRST is about more than winning on the field. BUT... ...it is my experience that the great programs of the FIRST world almost always build on a foundation of competitive robots. Success on the field begets success in other realms. - Joe Johnson [more] 
23-06-2002, 22:30
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