I Should be happy today.. But read.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

...and then the admin passwords started floating around the school because they couldn't keep their mouths shut.

Originally Posted by s forbes

A couple months later me and a bunch of my friends all had these keys and used them to open our lockers and each others if we needed.

Folks,

People involved in FIRST tend to be the best and the brightest , and are generally able to circumvent anything in their way. The problem starts when they tell others about it.

What happens then is bad. People who don't have the intelligence to actually do this themselves, and without a good understanding of the impact of their actions, get ahold of a tool that ends up causing serious harm.

Like giving a hand grenade to a baby.

The problem is, when it gets out who started it all, it ends up being "one of those kids on the robot team". When administration starts hearing about bad things, and they are associated with "those kids on the robot team", what do you think will end up happening?

No More Robot Team.

No, that won't get rid of the kids, or the problem, but it surely will get rid of the team. The administration has to do something, so FIRST is an easy target.

The bottom line: If you are part of a FIRST team, and you figure out how to get around something, keep it to yourself.

Maybe even become a hero, and tell someone you trust in "administration" what you did/found/learned. Then the association with "those kids on the robot team" will be something like "those kids on the robot team really help us keep people from doing bad things" - and that is a good reputation to have. Really.

It's still not about the robots. FIRST is about doing the right thing.

Don

PS: Bummer on the prom and suspension. I can think of a similar incident from my youth. If we had only asked permission, we'd have gotten it, too. sigh. Live and Learn.