"I'm not that smart"

[Carlee10]

This is the way I felt when I joined, and what I said. I knew nothing about robotics, but the senior I was freinds with through band said it was fun, and I was always interested in how things moved and why. Now look at me. I'm hooked! I can fix things on the robot, and the things I can't fix I at least know a little about. As long as you try, and learn. I'm CONSTNATLY asking questions, from blatanltly obvious to thoughtful and well thought out. I've seen smart and creative answers in this thread. If people find out I'm the team, and they say "I'm not nearly smart enough for that" or "Dang, you must be smart!" I just tell them that its not about being smart, and talk to them. But it doesn't hurt to be a quick learner, especially during build season.

$0.02

[Andrew Schreiber]

Looking back on all the answers I seem to notice that we are all telling them they SHOULD do FRC. I agree FRC is a great program but it isn't for everyone. What we may want to tell them is to try it, if it isn't for you then learn from that and move on. (Don't use the term quit) No shame in learning from your past and moving onto what you do want to do.

[SlaminSwimster]

I do a lot of recruiting events and i get the whole i'm not smart enough routine all the time. I've just basically started saying " look at the beginning of this year, i had no idea about any of this stuff i'm telling you." Some kids listen others don't