Mission Statement - what's your team's?

[Richard McClellan]

Originally Posted by av11d

The students on our team recently devised a 2004-2005 business plan.

Mission Statement:
To develop a sustainable, year-round FIRST team that brings together a diverse body of students, parents, and mentors for a fun and inspirational learning experience in engineering and teamwork.


It's short, sweet, and to the point. If you guys want to see our entire business plan, I'd be happy to post it online.

Yes, if you could post your entire business plan, that would be great. Our team is working on establishing ourselves as a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, so that would help us a lot!

[Pat Arnold]

MARS had a small group of students write our mission statement, which was accepted after team review & vote. This procedure helped inform everyone & all felt a part of its creation.

"Our mission is to develop a cohesive, inspired team that uses wit, ingenuity and applied science to reach for MARS (Mega Awesome Robotic Systems). We plan to interest as many people as possible in going along for the ride!"

Our short & long term goals are spelled out in our 2008 Business Plan, here. We created the plan for the first time this year to help the team transition through a lot of challenges it faces (we learned that our one teacher was leaving the team, our workspace will be unavailable next year, etc.) One mom with a business/CPA background helped put this together. It has been very useful for us.

Good luck writing yours!

[Chris_Elston]

Community Name:
Huntington County 4-H Robotics

FIRST Name:
Team T.H.R.U.S.T. 1501
Thundering Herd of Robots Using Student Thinking

Mission Statement:
The purpose of Huntington County 4-H Robotics is to empower young minds in our Huntington County Community with engineering, business and leadership knowledge to achieve scientific and problem solving skills for use in their future endeavors. Through our 4-H special interest group in our Huntington Community, students will learn how to construct a competitive robot through engineering design, hands on building and operate our student driven team in a business environment following the ideas of FIRST.

Do our students know it?
I doubt any could recite it, but they know the concept and know we have one.

Do we strive to our mission?
Yes I believe we do, we try to elect student officers that drive what they want to do.

[galewind]

"Team Mercury will inspire students to pursue careers in science and technology by forging a partnership with parents, sponsors, and community members. Students will employ teamwork and organizational skills to simulate the environment of a small business. Through the development and presentation of a FIRST competition robot, Team Mercury will engage the community by participating in local outreach events. Lastly, the team will exemplify the spirit of gracious professionalism in its communication with all parties influenced by its projects, and have a blast while doing it!"

[Joe J.]

Lightning Robotics Mission Statement
"Our goal is to provide high school students with the opportunity to learn from mentors in the field of engineering. To expose them to a real life atmosphere with a hands on engineering project. To meet the challenge of the thought process from the beginning to completion. Enter friendly competition with the desire to do well and overcome any obstacle encountered, and deal with it through what they have learned. And in the spirit of FIRST, have FUN doing it!"

[Rick TYler]

Exothermics Robotics, Explorer Post 2036, vision and mission statements are below. I doubt the students know these, and THEIR statement of vision and mission would be different.

Vision: To inspire students in junior and senior high school (ages 12 to 17) to consider further education and careers in science and technology, regardless of their economic status and current career expectations.

Mission: To develop a sustaining community-based technology involvement program in western Washington, which will provide opportunities to students to explore the exciting aspects of science and technology by:

• Having students work with experienced adult mentors.

• Using robotics competitions to stimulate excitement in the learning process, science, and engineering.

• Leveraging corporate and other resources in reaching out to all parts of our local youth community, with a special emphasis on students who attend schools which do not have the resources to offer these programs as part of their regular curriculum.

[MayaPapaya27]

"Team RUSH is committed to improving and fortifying math and science education while offering its team members an opportunity to develop a fundamental understanding of respect, team unity, competitive spirit, and the gracious proffesionaslism that is the heart of every successful venture. Team RUSH has an uncompromised focus on positive moral values, and uses its focus to reach out to its community, create world-class design process, mold future leaders, build competitive robots, and most importantly...have fun."

We all had to memorize it this year.