Gracious Professionalism

[J93Wagner]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Some kind folk from Team 93 went and machined a new roller and shaft for us. It ended up weighing a few ounces more, but it was not a problem at all, and they helped us even when they had a match with us. They still ended up winning thanks to a stupid mistake on my part, though.

I knew that my team is one of the most gracious professional teams in WI or MN, but I had NEVER heard about that. Even I'm surprised to a point. Being by the Inspectors station was very convenient for all the teams I know we ended up helping over the weekend. I also know that one of the biggest reasons we ended up going to 10000K Lakes in the first place, was because of all the rookie teams there and the need for a long standing team to help them out.

A great example of that was on Thursday, and a team had NO programming done for the robot because they only had about 10 kids on the team. So our awesome software team, in about two hours wrote a program from scratch and had them competing all weekend. They also did that for several other teams OVERNIGHT until about 3' o clock in the morning.

Another great example from one of our mentors is that he was at his first FIRST Robotics Competition, and suddenly our team apparently started chanting "Fondy Fire" over and over again. He was completely and totally surprised because in our area for other sports, we sorta dislike the Fond du Lac High School sports teams. So his daughter just brings him out of it and gets him chanting. That was his first experience with GP.