Personal Narrative: My High School's First Robotics Team

This year during wrestling I was captain of the team, and this was a big responsibility since being captain is a big deal. Being captain isn’t about giving commands to people as you please or hazing people who aren’t as good as you. It’s a whole lot more than that. To be a captain or leader, you must show good examples, give advice when teammates are struggling, inspire teammates, and the list goes on. Many different qualities are required to be a successful leader like having good focus, being strong, having confidence, patience, and many more qualities. In the end it all comes down to a leader leading his team to victory. Its sound easy, but it depends on the leader, and the teammates trust into that leader.

Being a leader is being a role model and striving to make a positive impact on those around you. In order to be a successful leader, you have to put yourself second and your peers first. For example, my younger sister and I both play softball. I have played on several travel teams during the summer and this year, she tried out for her first competitive travel team. I was asked to aid her by helping her with the mechanics of the game. During this time, I sacrificed my time to put the needs of another person before my own and it paid off, because she made the team and I got to witness the results of my

Leadership is very important to me. I am the captain of my school's cross-country team, and was the recipient of the leadership award. My coach gave me this position based on my leadership qualities. When my team is going through a rough practice, it is my job to push them forward and help them find their motivation. I have earned my teams respect, leading by example, which is crucial to being a good leader.

To be a good Team leader I need to learn what types of authority I have. The authority will be followed upon how I carry myself and the way I act along with my duties required of me.

I have shown leadership many times while working in a group project or in an activity. I assign parts of the project to others and myself and share my ideas in the group. I try my very best to include everyone and try to incorporate their brilliant ideas in the project or activity as well. I make sure that everyone has a contribution

I have exemplified leadership in a couple different ways through out my high school career. One way of this is through leading my team members in cheerleading. I look out for my new team members, especially since they are learning a lot of new material. This can be stressful and difficult at times. I know this feeling since I was once brand new to the Mason Cheerleading Program and didn’t know any of the material. If I

I started out as a student-athlete in which I depicted great leadership skills and positive role model qualities such as diligence, enthusiasm, and passion for the sport. Hence, after my first year of college, I was named the team captain. I worked closely with the coaches, helped to resolve team conflicts, established the tone for practice, and modeled responsibility, decision-making, and a strong work ethic. I also promoted a positive attitude and team interactions, and encouraged and supported all of my teammates. Throughout my experience as team captain, I showed mental toughness by remaining confident and focus, and respond to individual and team mistakes in an appropriate manner.

I was not the oldest nor the one with the most experience but I was the one my teammates liked to come to talk to, listened to, and believed in. I put a bond in our team that we did not have in the beginning. We weren’t a team when we started but by the time the season was over we were like siblings, I know a part of this was because of my leadership and how I drove us to believe in each other and support each other. I referred to my sibling earlier of how I enjoy children and helping guide them. I also feel this is a strong part of my leadership. I said that I had four younger siblings, with them and including their friends I think I have quite the shoes to fill in trying to lead them in the right direction with being the right role model. I think this is one of the biggest parts of leadership if not the biggest. I have to help the future by showing them the right way to handle and deal with things in life.

A strong example of my leadership experience is my senior season of football. Following the 2016-2017 academic year, our head coach resigned on short notice and lacked any coach to fill the position. Because he left on such short notice, we didn’t have a coach for the first two weeks of the preseason, a crucial developing point in the season. However, a small group of other seniors and I were able to schedule workouts until we got a new coach. This established our group as team leaders and allowed us to lead the team to success in the regular season. I was later named a team captain for my leadership on and off the field. This gave me the ability further lead by example as well as keep the team’s morale up in the face of adversity. I ran extra

My personal experiences of leadership started when I was younger, roughly 7 years old, I was elected the captain of my travel soccer team. At the time I didn’t think much of it, nor did I have any extra duties that I was explicitly told that I needed to perform. Later throughout the season, I started to notice my teammates mimicking my styles and techniques and I highly enjoyed this feeling of being looked up to. I didn 't realize until years after that the recognition and pride I felt was leadership. This privilege of being captain was the first time I had realized that people weren 't necessarily following my actions because I was extraordinarily skilled, but because I provided this role model status with my confidence and encouragement. Some of the most valuable leaderships traits that I acquired and fortified are:

Leadership is a trait that many people misunderstand. Some people believe that leaders need to be mean, assertive, dominant, and have overwhelming control over a situation, however, this could not be farther away from the truth. Often times people confuse being boddy with being a leader. Personally, I think that in order to be a leader you must be nice, as well as showing the way by example instead of orders. In school I try to help all of my friends with any schoolwork they need help with whenever I can. The most important role as a leader that I have is for the school’s junior varsity baseball team. This school district is a lot smaller than many other school district, so we face many teams that are able to have all junior and sophomores on junior varsity. We are about half sophomores and half freshmen and I feel that it is mine, as wells as the other sophomore’s, responsibility to lead the team through example. Even in tough situations I still motivate the team with encouragement, constructive criticism, and positive actions in order to keep our heads

Ever wonder what it takes to be a leader? Some people might think it takes bravery or other things to be a leader of something. I think it takes someone who shares the work and gives everyone else credit, not just themselves. Being a leader of a team has to consist of that. Someone who is not a leader will take full credit for a win or they might blame a loss on everyone else except them.

Leadership comes with responsibilities, commitment, respect, and sincerity for the team. I got to exhibit all of these skills when I joined the VEX Robotics Club at Gar-Field Senior High School as a team member looking to contribute when needed. However, due to my dedication, commitment, and effort that I put into that club, I was promoted to the position of the Vice President, where I handled all tasks effectively. However, I had to step up to become the president of the club because the former president transferred to another school. I served as the President of the Robotics Club of my school from October 2015 through February 2016. When I assumed leadership, everything was unorganized since the previous student president of the club left

Over the summer, I went to a STEM fair where I caught basketballs thrown by a robot. This booth happened to be run by this small group of skinny boys who went to my soon to be high school, Atholton. Ever since learning about the club, my dad has been doing his best to convince me to at least try it out. Even though this was the last thing I imagined myself doing in high school, I gave in after an obnoxious amount of “robotics is good for college” and “you just have to try it out for a week and then you'll never hear about it again”.

I had been so excited to join my high school robotics team as a freshman. Even though engineering was not my forte, I heard that the team needed artists and was excited to lend my talents. The small group in charge of media absorbed me and there I stayed. Three years later, I am burned out, tired, and Head of Media.