Gracious Professionalism At the Qualifier

Will demonstrates our Robot to other teams

At the first level of competition, we had plenty of opportunities to display gracious professionalism. For those of you readers not affiliated with FLL, gracious professionalism and coopertition are both terms trademarked  by FIRST. They are a part of the Core Values, which teams get judged on.

At the competition, we exchanged business cards and tokens with all of the other teams. (At the state level, we will be giving away ninjas instead of army men, so be warned). We agreed to let other teams use our table to practice on when we did not need it. We also offered tips for programming and design to teams who were having trouble.

Many of the other teams were good examples as well. They also exchanged tokens such as pencils and buttons with the rest of the teams.