In physics today we have been working on balsa wood bridges for a while and due to my connections through robotics I was able to get a little bit better tools. Not much just a balsa wood chopper and glue that actually worked. Another group came over and asked if they could use the balsa wood chopper and I went ahead and let them. My partner asked why I gave up the advantage we had over the ‘enemy’. I simply told him that I did out of GP. He asked me what GP was and I told him. I gave him examples from robotics and he could hardly believe me. He may not understand such a concept, but it just makes me all the more thankful that so many of us understand it.
Thanks to all you who taught me GP, Jason.
Good for you. i am a rookie this year, and at first i thought FIRST competitions were all about completely beating and annhialating the opposition. boy, was i wrong, and i’m glad i was 
For our electrical house for our final physics project, our group was in it’s prime and we were finishing our circuits when a group of students needed a lot of help on their house. Leaving one of my friends in charge of attaching the last complex circuit to the battery, I went and helped the other group. Somebody on our team asked me why I was so eager to help another group because they were a bunch of “over achievers” who hit their first road block in life. My response was, it was the right thing to do. FIRST has taught me to put others before myself (not really taught, just reinforced what my parents tattooed to my morals). I guess more and more of what us robotics kids do is more second nature rather than to think twice about giving a helping hand. I remember walking to see our robot compete and so I walked through the pits as soon as I heard a crack in Curie, I was one of the first to the team’s pits ready to lend a helping hand.
Usually I feel sad for the people who don’t “get” GP. But then sometimes that just makes GP that much better.
Hooray for altruism!