We arrived at the FLL meet at around 7:00 AM. Filled with excitement, we quickly filed off of the bus. We got set up at the gold pit, and waited for our time to head towards the first event, the team building session. Then, it was time, and we quickly walked towards the band hall, where the event was located. As soon as we went in, two things became obvious. First, we had to build something out of marshmallows and uncooked pasta. Second, we were going to be quizzed on our team. I think we did well on both, and we walked out, confident that we did well on the first event. Looking at our schedule, it was time for the presentation. Our presentation was on glass, and we had a script memorized. We waited for around 30-45 minutes until our team name was called. We arrived at a classroom and had to wait around 3 minutes until the judges were ready for us. Our entire team …show more content…
We ate and discussed who was going to man the robot through the rounds. There were 3 rounds, and we split up into 3 teams of 2. First was Peter and I, then Santiago and Hector, and lastly Diego and Walker. My round did well, with ¾ missions complete, and with only 2 penalties. However, it was with Santiago and Hector that disaster stuck. Santiago was clumsy and knocked down a tower. In the rules it said that the team could not touch the board or else they get a penalty. Sadly, since it was a whole tower, Santiago got a lot of penalties. Then he tried to build it back up, not hearing the judge say “No! Don’t touch the board anymore!” Having a lot of penalty points deducted from our score, I felt like the game was over. In a way, it was. We only placed 40th out of I don’t know how many teams, and I felt a sense of loss, for without that penalty, who knows what place we might’ve gotten. In fact, we could’ve even gotten to the world championship. But maybe that’s just me being
My youth pastor delivered a very well put together presentation on time management. The purpose of the presentation was to motivate us to become more efficient. She told us how time is something that you can lose and never get back. The structure of the presentation was well organized with a clear beginning, middle, and end. This allowed the audience to grasp the message clearly.
The second year of the competition, I was only one of two returning students. I took an active role in recruiting new students, and our membership doubled. It was a complete role reversal for me because all of a sudden I was the experienced team member. We finished fifth out of forty teams at the regional competition, and at the national tournament, we placed in the top third.
As soon as the four members of my team entered the breakout room, we had begun the stages of team development. As Bruce Tuckman (1965) observed in his research, teams often undergo a five-stage process of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. During my team’s forming stage, we defined what our objective was and planned a general outline of how this was to be accomplished. Because we didn’t know each other very well, a quick introduction was given so we could get to know each other a little better. Next, we had a brief stage of storming which caused a bit of inefficiency. This was our initial five minutes of confusion due to not knowing each other’s strengths and who was better suited to answer which question. Our norming and performing stages melted together as we quickly gained our footing on the task at hand and settled for an execution strategy which would allow us to perform at a fairly efficient speed. Our performing stage was very encouraging and helped the team push through the questions...
our coach and he told us to go out there and have fun because win or lose we still are the
As the first meet neared, things were going well. I made it onto the 4x100 team making me the third fastest kid on the team. The other members of the relay were Jason Schmidt, Jeremy Willard and Rodney Schmidt. Jason and Jeremy were both the top dogs and Rodney and I were second from the bottom of the barrel.
On February 21, 2016, I, Deputy John Arnold, went to 11747 West 105th Street South to assist another deputy in reference to a fight in progress.
In the business competition I paired off with Tony, Elizabeth, Tyree, and Cole. We were five complete strangers and we were expected to create a winning business. At first we started by simply getting to know one another. Our professors had built into the syllabus several days to be spent on team building activities including es...
Moving from a highly diverse community to a less diverse community has to be the weirdest yet interesting culture shock I ever had to deal with. As a young child, I did not know about the outside world. I thought everyone rides the bus or the metro, graffiti on the wall is normal and traffic wouldn’t matter as much since everything I needed was within walking distance sometimes. There were shocking things I learned once I moved to Nebraska.
Our cheer team gets announced to the mat and we present the routine we have worked months on to perfect. We hit every stunt, tumbling pass, transition, jump, etc. perfectly. All the practice we put in paid off.
jumping, pushing and head-banging. In all this chaos I suddenly felt out of breath, we all clambered out of the pit and onto the steps. One of my friends kept asking me if I was OK and I said that I felt really out of breath and had a sharp pain in my chest. We came to the conclusion that I had probably cracked a rib.
There we were, walking downtown. It was one of the few days I was dressed like I wasn’t straight off the farm, I had a dress and heels on. My mom and I were shopping while my sister was at piano lessons. And then we got the call that would turn our day upside down, inside out, and backwards.
My childhood started out with my grandparents. My mom had to work on the other side of the island so my grandma and grandpa were my temporary mom and dad for while. Living with my grandparents was a blast, I ventured through the forest with my grandpa, shopped for clothes with my grandma and attended routined meetings with both of them. There wasn't wifi at my grandparent's house at the time so on my spare time I liked to grab sticks from the storage house to give to my grandpa so he can make swords out of them, I loved to play with swords.
When you work as a team, it really shows a person’s work ethic and character. It was not all bad, in fact I gained a lot of respect for my group members throughout this process. The most satisfying thing about the entire project was that we whether we wanted to or not, we had to be in it together. Even though we could have been more prepared, we all pulled it off at the end. Procrastination is not something that should be routine, but I do it all of the time. I knew that I didn’t want to be the reason that our group failed, so I made sure to do as much as I could to complete the presentation. It was a really good experience overall because it made me have to consider others and their time as well as manage my
“Why don’t you use your locker? You’re going to have back problems before you even graduate”. These are words that are repeated to me daily, almost like clockwork. I carry my twenty-pound backpack, full of papers upon papers from my AP classes. The middle pouch of my backpack houses my book in which I get lost to distract me from my unrelenting stress. The top pouch holds several erasers, foreshadowing the mistakes I will make - and extra lead, to combat and mend these mistakes. Thick, wordy textbooks full of knowledge that has yet to become engraved in my brain, dig the straps of my backpack into my shoulders. This feeling, ironically enough, gives me relief - my potential and future success reside in my folders and on the pages of my notebooks.
During my freshman year of college, I had met one of my best friends, who go by name Jill. (She lives in New Jersey and while I live in Pennsylvania) I found it to be strange that sometimes, it feels like we have grown up with one another but in reality we have only one another for four years and I couldn’t be more thankful. I can remember when we met at school as if it was yesterday.