What do you consider "success" in FIRST?

[Ken Leung]

Hello everyone, it's been a long while since I last posted in this forum... I hope everyone enjoyed their first week without any stress and/or lack of sleep after the 2002 competition.

This summer, one of my goals is to do a little study about FIRST Robotics Competition... Although I haven't made up my mind what exactly I want to focus on, I decided it will be along the line of "How does FRC affect people's life" or "why should people participate in FRC?"... I still need more time to think this through, but I am looking forward to talk to every one of you about this (I am hopping I can e-mail lots and lots of people and have some really good conversation with them about these topics).

Mean while, I thought I would start by asking a series of questions to help me figure out my direction in this "study"... So, here is the first one:

What do you consider "success" in FIRST?


Keep in mind that there is NO particular answer I am looking for. All I am hopping to get is everyone's opinion of this topic, and not endless arguments of who's right or wrong... So please share whatever thoughts you have and don't be shy (must be related to this topic of course)... Remember, it is ok to disagree with other's opinion, so tell us why you disagree, and let that be as far as it gets.

Thanks for reading this post! I look forward to read your respond!

By the way... It will be really nice if a lot of you post reply to this thread, so it will stay on top of the busy "General" forum...