Keeping Interest - Beyond the Robot

[Bomberofdoom]

Jane,

Overlooing what I wrote, I kind of realized something I was wrong at.

The FIRST representetives did encourage us to just built the robot but they said that if we could do more, it's great.

I think they were ok. They were supposed to hint and give assistance to the teams in trying to understand what they can do and to understand that there's lots of stuff that they can think up by thereselves.

FIRST is supposed to be a self-learning process in a team with the help of a mentor and other volunteers.

I didn't really notice my words before fully. FIRST did help us, but we just weren't capable of and I believe they are doing a good job with trying to help the teams realize what they can do and to secretly encourage them to think independently.

So as I'm "In it", I need to start encouraging my team to do stuff beyond robotics, learning how to convince and to realize how far we can go.

Sorry, I regret my previous words about FIRST Israel. FIRST is doing a great job, it's me who needs to do the hard work now. I'm the one who can encourage teams and help them even more. And yet, I need to make sure I don't go far as telling them exactly what to do, since it's the team's job to realize that.

About the years in FIRST, yes, I can't say I know, but I have a very strong feeling that I will continue FIRST beyond graduation, but I just have the feeling, from what I've learned, that these years, where I'm learning in school, I need to learn from FIRST.

Once again, my appologies and thanks for making a few things clear to me.

P.S
Overlookig the questions in the post, I see again that these are answers that the team members, from the 2nd year, need to figure out by themselves by learning.

It's ok to ask about what others do, only you get better experience by first trying and then seeing how others did.