I went to Bentonville High School not knowing there was even a robotics team. Come to find out two weeks too late that we had not one, not two, but three teams. The day the next school year started, I applied. I got accepted, and we started work in October. It was weird being the only girl on the team. But nobody else cared. My team and the other two accepted me with no qualms. After only a month, it was like I was one of the guys. Our robotics team wasn’t a class, meaning we had limited time to work with it. But we were able to be quick and effective about brainstorming solutions and then figuring out what worked and what didn’t work. But it wasn’t professional. We worked hard, but we were still goofy and relaxed. There were
I am on a FIRST Robotics Competition team (team #4534 Wired Wizards) for the second year in a row. I was the assistant programmer for the season of 2013, and I am the programming lead for the season of 2014. Our team placed 19th out of 52 teams at the 2013 North Carolina Regional, finishing as the highest ranked rookie team in North Carolina (the highest ranking rookie team at the competition was from out of state).
I was also in Algulitos, a program where high school students teach younger students Spanish. I led a classroom of second graders every Friday while integrating fun and learning. I was very excited to be involved in this program because it was an opportunity to be a successful role model for younger children. I developed many friendships ...
“If at first you don’t succeed try , try again.” At the age of six I was starting to play football. The game was a hard hitting running and commitment. I was six years old at the time now I’m fourteen a freshman in high school a lot has changed.
I have been playing baseball as long as I can remember. My dream ever since I was little was to win a State Championship in high school. Baseball is the only sport that I could literally play every day and not get tired of it. I told myself that I would never give up my dream of playing baseball as long as I live.
Joining a high school baseball team was a commitment. It took over every second of my life; it occupied my every thought and motivated everything I did. My high school baseball team was not easy to become a part of. First I needed prove my skills in tryouts. Then I had to prove my credibility and demonstrate those skills in games while under pressure. Finally I needed to become a brother to every player on that team, I had to be there and have the backs of every single person who shared the dugout with me. My experiences of joining the team included needing to demonstrate and master the logos, ethos, and pathos skills required to be a member of that sacred brotherhood.
I worked very hard every day at practice to show why they needed me on the field. I was so excited when I got to play in my first high school tournament. I had to be a pinch runner for the pitcher and I scored the first point in the game. At the end of the season that yearev, they finally realized we were losing all of our games because of this one girl, so they took her out and put me in and moved everyone’s positions around.
According to our text, Communicating at Work, an effective team has eight characteristics. These characteristics are: clear and inspiring shared goals; a results driven structure; competent team members; unified commitment; collaborative climate; standards of excellence; external support and recognition; and principled leadership. A group goes through four stages in becoming an effective team; forming, storming, norming, and performing (Adler and Elmhorst, 240, 251). Most of the characteristics of an effective team are brought to the team by one or more members, others are formed during the development process.
Mine and Jackie’s barrier are pretty similar, well it involves the small five ounce, nine inch in circumference, little red seamed and white ball. Ever since I was little I was always fascinated with it, and the environment. On those sunny saturdays, with the cool breeze of the air brushing against my arm, to the stormy sundays when the frigid moist lies on my lips and my legs in tight knots, I’ve always enjoyed the game called baseball. Since my first grand slam (tee ball) I realized that I’m a pretty good baseball player and I could be if I kept working on it. Then it hit me, literally. While I was jogging to first base, I had this sudden moment of realization that hurt worse than the baseball. Could I make the high school baseball team?
Here I am, a high school freshman, many students are ready to start his or her school year academically, except for me. The only thoughts going through my head as I start my high school career is baseball, baseball and more baseball. It is every baseball playing kids dream to do well in high school baseball in the hopes of being drafted to college and ultimately the big leagues. I knew from the start I would never make the varsity team my freshman year due to the stock of players our school had, which included my brother. Even though I knew this I still couldn’t wait for the spring to begin junior varsity ball.
In David Wright’s “The Myths and Realities of Teamwork,” (Wright, D., 2013), he outlines six myths that are ubiquitous and perpetuated by many people. Here is a short examination of all six.
After a review of my performance in the assigned group, I have learned a great deal about myself and behavior in the team-setting situation. This is not the first experience in a team-setting. Previous team setting experiences were conducted in sporting and recreational environments rather than academics. While the setting and the environments were indeed different, there were many commonalities and correlations between the team settings I previously experiences and the current academic team-setting experience for this academic course project.
Tarricone, P., & Luca, J. (2002). Successful teamwork: A case study. (pp. 640-646). Milperra: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Inc. DOI: www.herdsa.org.au
A jolt of energy rushed through my body and hit my heart when they call me up to get the team trophy. Not fourth, third, or second, but first place for the third year in a row. Being a captain of a team is an amazing experience. You get to see your team physically, mentally, and emotionally prepare for competition. It's a lot of hard work, but if you try your hardest, make all the practices and have a passion for cheerleading its worth it. Every year we take a few weeks to build a competition routine, the out come is incredible, but the celebration is the best part.
In my sophomore year, our teacher offered all of us a chance to join the symphonic orchestra, the top orchestra at my school. The group that not only got the toughest music but had to be committed to all of the rehearsals, concerts, and state contests, too. With this amazing opportunity, I got home and went to practice in a heartbeat. By the time I auditioned, I was well-prepared and in high spirits. Eventually, I became a part of the symphonic orchestra.
One day in class my PE coach noticed that I was athletic and asked me to come to volleyball tryouts. I had never played volleyball in my entire life, but I enjoyed almost every sport I had ever played, so I decided to give it a shot. I ended up making the team and playing throughout middle school and for enjoyment through high school. This is something that helped me in many different ways. In elementary school, I had mostly friends that were boys, but since joining the volleyball team I then had a whole squad of girls that became my friends. Then later in the year I played on the basketball team and made even more friends that were girls. Now I had way more friends that were girls than guys. In middle school having girl friends was important because we were all able to relate with one another in the changes we were going