By: Jayden Han.
Have you ever had a project at school but you had to team carry the whole team while everyone else did nothing? Isn’t that frustrating especially when you get a low grade on that project? Well during the FIRST LEGO League UNEARTHED season, our team learned that success does not happen because of just one person. Nobody did it alone, and that is what made our team (Awesome Ninjas) stronger.
One day in our FLL class we realized that one or two team members were doing most of the work on coding and PID, while everyone else avoided that, so we decided that everyone should be working collaboratively and no one should be team-carrying, after all this is a team.
So, one of the biggest ways we shared the work was by dividing our focus between the Innovation Project and the Robot Game. Some teammates spent time researching ideas, creating presentations, and improving our Innovation Project. Other teammates focused on building, coding, and testing the robot for missions on the game table. So in the end everyone had to code and build collaboratively. This way the people that do coding often can’t be the ones carrying the team so everyone has to code even if they struggle at it.
We also learned that teamwork means everyone has to contribute. No single person carried the team. Each teammate had responsibilities and worked hard to help us improve. We listened to each other’s ideas, solved problems together, and celebrated/collaberated our successes as one team.
By collaborating and staying positive, we kept improving little by little.
The UNEARTHED season taught us more than coding and robotics. It taught us cooperation. We discovered that when everyone collaborates and gives their best effort, amazing things can happen.
In the end, our team succeeded because we collaborated and worked together. We shared the work, supported one another, and crushed it as a team!
Find more at: https://theawesomeninjas.com/.