Five... Wait What?!?

So.  Let's just talk for a minute about how we have exactly one week left of build.  One week.  That's like, nothing.  The next few days are going to be insane.  Hopefully we'll have a working robot for Suffield, although at this point it looks like we won't even have a spot to compete anyways.  The important thing is that we go to learn about how the game is played and whatnot. So.  This weekend we had some very special guests come to the build site.  We had a few girls from a new rookie team at Mercy High School come to tour our site and see how we run our build days.  All of these girls were new to robotics, so it was a really valuable trip for them.  FIRST is all about "Gracious Professionalism", and working with others to reach a common goal.  It is important to realize that despite the competition, the veteran teams (like Team Paragon) should reach out to help rookies teams such as the one from Mercy.  This year, Team Paragon is mentoring two rookie teams, and has been visited by three.  We have made it a responsibility to spread our knowledge in order to make the FIRST community a stronger place.  The same goes in the world of a more broad spectrum of technological advancement.  If one country holds a great deal of power in one aspect of technology, they should help spread it, making the world a more cooperative and efficient place.  For example, the two boys that I discussed in my post about the Seiman's Award needed the help of others to implement their ideas.  If the world can learn to work together to obtain a common goal, much more will be completed in a much shorter time span.