What makes the Good, So good?

[Erin Rapacki]

My guess at why the 'good' are so 'good' could be considered somewhat irrelevant because teams develope into 'good' teams for many different reasons. But still... my guess is the people. For instance... all a 'good' team needs is one 'go-getter', one leader, one extremely ethusiastic FIRST participant that wants to do things and knows how to get things done. But, that one person needs people to support their ideas, their interests, and their enthusiasm. No team could be made up of one person... and if the Best FIRST Leader in the World is on a lazy team, that team is going nowhere. But back to the point... this is how it works in the beginning. Then, as years go by, those followers become leaders themselves, acquire new followers (I'm talking about new students and mentors), and that keeps going around in a full circle untill nearly everyone on the team is a leader and a constructive thinker. When a team has many willing and excited participants, they can do anything.

ByE

erin

[Mike Schroeder]

I belive that it is the partnership and determination of the members on ur team not just any one person.

My opinion of how Team 25 operates

Advisors - the give order to chaos bind the team together, analyse each student and gives them a role best suited to their abilities
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Students - the "padawan learner" ( couldn't help it big star wars fan probobly spelled it wrong to) they drive, build, maintain the robot. or they are the coolest mascot the FIRST world has ever seen. They are the learners because the advisors and
Engineers teach students how to do what they are doing
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Engineers Engineers, we aint got no engineers. thats right the people that help us build our robot are tradesmen at Bristol Myers Squibb

Another thing that makes teams great is creativity and determination. If you can come up with an idea, with the right tools and hard work it can be accomplished