When you Lose, You Win
Your team has spent weeks, even month, designing and building the perfect robot. Team members have all contributed great ideas and energy to the project, and you all arrive at competition psyched to show off what you've accomplished. Inspection, Judging, and Competition Matches all go well, but at the end of the day, another team wins. Disappointment happens. Of course you will be sad you didn't win when you worked so hard! And you are naturally going to want to figure out why you didn't win – what about your robot, your team’s performance, or how the day went could have been different? The engineering design process is about learning from failure. When you were designing, building, and programming your robot, there were ideas that didn't work, and you had to figure out why and make adjustments. Sometimes, even with modifications, an idea doesn't work and you have to scrap that robot completely and start over. The same is true of competition. Some matches will go we...