most important charecteristic of successful teams

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Posted by Robby at 12/30/2000 6:13 PM EST


Other on team #108, The SigmaC@Ts, from AIFL and Motorola.


In Reply to: interest in the competition
Posted by Ken Leung on 12/30/2000 4:06 AM EST:



And this falls under attitude. You have great point. Students who are incredibly self motivated will put in hours a day, if not days a week, nights too! All that just so they can see the team succeed - build something that works the way they wanted.

Many students will join a team merely for the interest of going to Disney. They do work, sometimes, but never quite give it thier all. Just enough to get by. I have a long standing debate with some friends of mine as to whether these students should still be allowed on the team. And how do you sort these students out? Some are quite obvious, as they just lay around the field every meeting, arrive late, and rush to leave early, often missing several meetings. But others are a little hard to tell whether they will really help out the team once you make it to Orlando? These are the kind of students who can bring a team down.

And the same can apply to some engineers and teachers. If they are only there for the potential glory of a 1st place trophy, did that team really become a success? Refer to Deans speech last year about what he wanted the outcome of FIRST to be, which I think shocked a couple of the attendees. But more of that on a later post.

Hmm... just noticed something. Kind of a depressing post. But never worry! There are us hard-core FIRST junkies who go straight from school, to our sponsor, leave at 1am, get to bed by three, and wake up at 6am only to repeat the process with a smile and 3 primative shapes in thier heart.

These are the students that truly help the team success. And once again, the same applies for many engineers and teachers. Well, not school of course, so they get to pu in way more time. Lucky ::SNIFF::. $@#$@#$@#$@#... those were the good ol' days.

-Robby
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