"Gracious Professionalism"

[Pault]

Rather than try to define GP, I’m going to give an an example. I’ve been wanting to recognize this team for a while, so now is my chance.

This year at the WPI regional my team’s robot was far from ready to compete. As a result, on Thursday we had about 10 different tasks going on in our pit at any given time in an attempt to reassemble and rebuild parts of our robot (we made sure it didn’t get too unsafe). The team next to us, Smart Robotics (3930), saw our struggles and actually cleared out of their pits, allowing us to expand into them for as long we needed to. I feel like that is something very unique for a team to do, especially a young team like them.

[yash101]

@Pault

Rather than try to define GP, I’m going to give an an example. I’ve been wanting to recognize this team for a while, so now is my chance.

This year at the WPI regional my team’s robot was far from ready to compete. As a result, on Thursday we had about 10 different tasks going on in our pit at any given time in an attempt to reassemble and rebuild parts of our robot (we made sure it didn’t get too unsafe). The team next to us, Smart Robotics (3930), saw our struggles and actually cleared out of their pits, allowing us to expand into them for as long we needed to. I feel like that is something very unique for a team to do, especially a young team like them.

That’s quite clever and nice of the team! Hopefully, they won the gp award! So, did they just use the pits together, or did they donate their pit to 3959?
That’s a good example of GP.

[Pault]

@yash101

That’s quite clever and nice of the team! Hopefully, they won the gp award! So, did they just use the pits together, or did they donate their pit to 3959?
That’s a good example of GP.

They pushed a lot of stuff off to the other side of the pit, and just didn’t really have any of their own team members in it (they got inspected and set up early, so they didn’t need to do anything in there). It was mainly for Thursday, after that we didn’t need the extra space as much.

[yash101]

That makes sense, but it is still quite nice of them!

[Kevin_Leonard]

There is nothing in the world to make you feel hope for humanity than the company of gracious professionals,

This year, at IRI, when our robot experience catastrophic damage, SO many teams helped us out to get our robot working. I’ll take a quote from the thread we posted post-IRI about the damages from one of our college mentors, Carl. THESE teams exemplify GP.

@KrazyCarl92

Thank you to Team 868, especially Charles, for your assistance in trying to get us back up and working. Even though we didn’t pull it off for the 2-speeds like we had hoped, it was really awesome to have competitors like yourselves helping us out even though we had a match against each other shortly after. THAT was gracious professionalism. Also thanks to 11, 71, 195, 1310, and 1625 as well as Chris Picone and Nick Lawrence for lending us tools and brainpower for the attempted repairs throughout the weekend. And thanks to 16 and 27 for being understanding pit neighbors when our stuff undoubtedly spilled into your space during the turmoil that was the Friday of IRI 2013 for Team 20. Additional thanks to all of the great teams and volunteers who provided the most inspirational product on that field. We were hoping to really help raise the level of competition, but we came away with a great experience nonetheless.

ALSO- before the competition even started, we were lent(read “given”) a Banebots motor from team 3847.
We offered the the compensation for the money the motor cost- they refused it.

[yash101]

That is quite professional, I think. These motors cost something like, $30. If you have a few lying to spare and another team needs some, they aren’t something unaffordable for most teams, unless the team wanting donations is like us where we blew our BAGs every few matches!