Team 622o

In addition to FIRST competitive values, 6220 uses a set of team pillars to guide all operations:

1. Student-led, student-driven

2. You get out what you put in

3. Continuity, think about the team’s future

4. Find out what you want to learn and learn what you need to know

5. Best idea always wins, not the idea of the highest authority

6. Steal from the best, innovate the rest

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Of all these pillars, "student-led, student-driven" is by far the most critical, serving as our team's motto. Our #1 goal as a team is to provide genuine, practical experience to our members—not only in technical skills like manufacturing and mechanical engineering, but also interpersonal skills like leadership, teamwork, and discipline. Maintaining a student-led, student-driven team allows us to best accomplish this goal; mentors provide key experience, knowledge and safety, but they do not make decisions for students or do any work that could be completed by members. Yes, our members make mistakes, but our unique student-led philosophy means that every mistake serves as a point of learning for our members and allows both the team and individual members to improve. Our team pillars are not simply figures of speech--each one works to help the team accomplish our mission of providing members with real-world, robotics-, engineering-, and business-related experience by competing in annual FRC competitions while making an impact in our community through STEM-related outreach.​