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    Team 2910 is dedicated to achieving the goals stated in the mission of the international FIRST robotics organization:

    Our mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.

    FIRST Robotics Competition is an organization that fulfills the national STEM goals. It focuses on leadership by making core values of the following trademark ideas: Coopertition and Gracious Professionalism.

     

    Coopertition (TM)

    CoopertitionTM produces innovation. At FIRST, Coopertition is displaying unqualified kindness and respect in the face of fierce competition. Coopertition is founded on the concept and a philosophy that teams can and should help and cooperate with each other even as they compete.

    Coopertition involves learning from teammates. It is teaching teammates. It is learning from mentors. And it is managing and being managed. Coopertition means competing always, but assisting and enabling others when you can.

    Gracious Professionalism (TM)

    Dr. Woodie Flowers, FIRST National Advisor and Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, coined the term "Gracious Professionalism TM."

    Gracious Professionalism is part of the ethos of FIRST. It's a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community.

    With Gracious Professionalism, fierce competition and mutual gain are not separate notions. Gracious professionals learn and compete like crazy, but treat one another with respect and kindness in the process. They avoid treating anyone like losers. No chest thumping tough talk, but no sticky-sweet platitudes either. Knowledge, competition, and empathy are comfortably blended.

     

     

    Weekly Team Challenges— engineering concepts that are presented by the mentors to expand student understanding of : gear ratios, torque, center of gravity, pneumatics, scale drawings, drawing and engineering plan to name a few.

     

    Team Classes— Auto CAD drawings. Lab View,Java programming, Structural Mechanics topics

     

    Team Safety— Students are introduced to the machining equipment in the classroom. Diagrams and photos are used of the equipment, proper use is covered and each student must take a test and achieve 100% on the test. Next students are required to design a plan for creating dice when this plan is approved they go to the machine shop and work one-on-one with a mentor to mill the dice. They observe the mentor using the equipment and then they use the equipment under supervision to create the dice.

     

    Team Collaboration— The design and building of the robot is a team decision, the entire team works to build the best robot that has the best program installed.

     

    Team Service— the team works to support a local FLL team which placed 3rd in the state during their rookie year, they also support community service projects Octoberfest, Mill Creek Festival, Boat Safety in Puget Sound, Engineering Day at Boeing. We are currently pursuing a partnership with engineers without borders and hope to participate in some way this spring.