Bill Hummel's Example Of A Great Role Model

All people need a role model in life no matter your age. Bill Hummel is FIRST Team 2010’s example of a great role model.

Bill has been with The Lightning Bots for about 5 years. Throughout the whole season he encourages everyone to speak their mind. Bill creates a comfortable environment for everyone. Each season, we do team building exercises that were implemented by Bill. These exercises result in a higher level of teamwork, and bonds the team. They also help to distinguish leadership attributes in students to further a positive experience during the season. Bill wants to instill teamwork into our meeting so diligently that he has created a number of team building exercises. These exercises made us listen to every teammate, and people had to step out of their comfort zones. The exercises are fun and effective ways to teach us about communication, leadership, public speaking, time management, and teamwork that will aid us as we make our way through the world. Bill does a lot of networking for the team. He has resources outside of the team that he can bring into help us with the success of the season or to talk to us about things that will help us after high school.

Moreover, Bill works for the state highway patrol (OSP). One evening he brought in colleagues to come in and speak about distracted driving and its dangers. They brought in a distracted driving simulator to demonstrate the effects of dangerous driving in real time. Additionally, 2 years ago Bill brought an OSP bomb robot to the Buckeye Regional in Cleveland, Ohio. This showed that what we do as FIRST students really applies to life after high school. That the knowledge we gain from programing and building our robots will benefit us in many career paths that we may