I am a member of PMHS's robotics team, Cyber Blue 234. We had 6 weeks to build a robot that that needed to effectively address this year's game challenge. When tackling this problem, we made a few costly assumptions. Because of this, failure was inevitable. Therefore we performed poorly at our first robotics competition. Greif, anguish, humiliation: these emotions ran through me and my team. Instead of giving up, we learned from our failure and used the experience as a motivator for improving our robot. Due to this adversity, I experienced and dealt with failure; moreover, I learned the importance of understanding a problem before tackling it. During the six week build season, our team mistakenly assumed game pieces would be scattered across
