What is gracious professionalism? FIRST LEGO League says in the FLL Values:
- Gracious attitudes and behaviors are "win-win."
- Gracious folks respect others and let that respect show in their actions.
- Gracious professionals make a valued contribution in a manner pleasing to others and to themselves as they possess special knowledge and are trusted by society to use that knowledge responsibly.
We have met many teams that are very good at being gracious professionals and they are fun to be around. These teams do things like congratulate other teams on doing well, compliment the robot design and research of others, and help people out.
One team that we have met has been especially helpful to us - the GearGeeks. The members of this team cheered us on at the state tournament and congratulated us on doing well. Their mentors have given our coaches helpful advice. They've even let us use their button maker to get ready for the World Festival and let us use their playing field table at the Peachtree Regional. This team does such a good job at being gracious professionals that they won an award and were selected to participate in the World Festival. Congratulations, GearGeeks, and thank you so much for all of your help and support! We're all going to have a great time at the festival!
Transformers team member Gas Guy says "Thank you St. Catherine's Blazers for always saying 'great job' and 'sweet robot design' and for just having an awesome attitude. Thank you GearGeeks for giving us advice for World and letting us use your button maker. We got encouragement and advice from the FLLSupport group. YOU GUYS ALL ROCK!!"
