Team 2626 profile
Evolution pure and simple
- A simple interest into a growing passion for everyone -
Six years ago, team 2626 Evolution joined FIRST and initiated robotic in the Eastern Townships. We were the first francophone team from Quebec to join FIRST Robotics. We were low in number, but passionate. Thus, we began to spread the FIRST message and our number grew. Our team inspired many potential teams to do the FIRST project. Hence, an impressive number of francophone schools in Quebec join the FRC each year. We made our way armed with creativity and resourcefulness. Our first year was congratulated by the Judges Award. Our team also won the Imagery Award in 2011. We worked a lot to make FIRST’s goals come true. We spread the interest in science and technology through all the province of Quebec. The FIRST project makes us achieve many goals of which we are proud of.
FIRST has many impacts on the members of our team. Team 2626 enables each person to transform an interest in a growing passion through FRC. The fact that the project that we have to fulfil is so interesting makes students continue and progress in, not only the FIRST program, but in science and technology as well. Our teachers really get into the project and spend a lot of time with us. FIRST favours our learning and makes us acquire new competences which will be useful in our future. We learnt a lot about security and how to manipulate many kinds of work tools. Also, everyone in team 2626 is considered as family. The FIRST project creates very strong links between us. Our team is based on teamwork because we believe our most valuable resource is the people which constitute the team itself. The mutual aid that comes out of our team makes our members’ work much easier and a lot more pleasant.
FIRST lead us to use our practical abilities to form
sub-teams within our group. Each sub-team has a really important role to make
team 2626 functional. We have many sub-teams like mechanics, electricity,
programming, marketing, web site and clothes designing. Each team are
supervising by a mentor and a student who is the captain. Because there is a
lot of sub-teams, team 2626 members are able to choose what they like to
continue to improve in their competences. Also, the fact that we have many
sub-teams encourages us to develop our communicator talent to convey all the
information easily. At beginning of the year, we receive training to be able to
choose what really interest us.
FIRST teaches us to be very organized
which is a really good quality that will help us in our studies as well as in
our future. It also makes us become more responsible. We thus become more mature
and disciplined. As a matter of facts, our team is always focused on its task
and is hence able to accomplish its goals.
Since FIRST robotic has entered our school, the team
2626 have adopted it's ideas. Hence, each opportunity is good to talk about
this passion of ours. Our school now offers robotic classes as an option class
in secondary 1, 2, 3 and 4. And I'm pretty sure we will succeed at getting
secondary 5 students into it. These programs are even explained by students in
our open house. In fact, thanks to FIRST, our robotic students were allowed to
present their NXT which were assembled and programmed by the students
themselves. Also, at the annual souper of the “Fondation du Séminaire de
Sherbrooke” which we thank for financing us each year, students had the chance
to present the FIRST project and their passion for it. We thus set forth our
team to additional important persons which were really impress by our 2011
robot.
Moreover , since 2011, we decided to introduce robotics to an even
younger public. Our team organized a robotic camp for 5th and 6th
grade still allowing secondary 1st and 2nd to join, our philosophy
being that learning earlier can only be better.Also, since 2013, we allow the creation of two FLL teams to communicate, again, our growing passion in robotics.
Team 2626 is really more than a simple team. We are a large family et we always search to stand out by posing concrets actions to help others. Our great motivation and our perseverance confirm that we can qualify our team as a model for other teams. Each year, our team welcome more and more new members and it's a proof that we can transform a simple interest into a growing passion for everyone. It is the evolution.
Our team name is seriously more than a simple name, it's a way of thinking and being. Every single team member evolves and will evolve on numerous points during this rewarding experience. Some students will discover a passion, a future profession, who knows, while others will discover themselves, will be more confident and will grow up. In our team, we can see this evolution individually and in the team as well, and this evolution can be remarked at the competence level as well as on the personnal side. Indeed, a student can learn and aquire new skills while growing up, but the team can aquire those learnt skills and can grow in confidence and in team spirit. So, the evolved members allow the team evolution. In our team, the evolution is everywhere and on each level. This is what FIRST is teaching us, evolution on a
daily base on everything. It's all about who we are and who we want to become. It's all about pure and simple Evolution.