The only way to succeed is together
Pipeline of talented scientists and engineers for tomorrow
When I was in grade six, I saw LEGO moving across the table. I was blown away. I saw toys that I was playing with at home coming alive, and I was always wondering, how? Why?
Robotics has taught me this completely different perspective where instead of individuals having to build themselves up in a community it’s more of individuals coming together to form groups and those groups work together to build up the community as a whole. It’s not just about one or two people succeeding, it’s about everybody succeeding together. Whether that be a school community, whether that be a geographical area, whether that be literally the entire world, the only way that we can truly succeed is with each other. It’s all about working together to achieve the best goal and result that we have possible.
This is kind of a sport for the brain and it teaches you things that you really can’t get anywhere else. Different skills, different ways to approach things, unique ways of thinking. Robotics truly takes what you learned in the classroom and puts a real-life example behind it. It lets kids know where they’re going to be applying the concepts that they’re learning before they have to go out and find an avenue to connect the two by themselves. It makes school a lot less confusing and far more relatable, because you get to learn concepts and approach concepts that adults are doing. That’s really cool.
When I joined team 4039 Makeshift FIRST Robotics at St. Mary’s I found out that I love strategy and I love presenting, two things that I had no idea about before joining. Where the avenues take me, could go either strictly in the form of engineering or could side track into a different field of STEM. The lessons I’ve learned with teamwork and collaboration and building people up with you, those are what are going to stick with me.
I’m graduating this year and moving on to pursue engineering at the University of Windsor. When I first joined the team in grade six, I told my head mentor, who is still my head mentor today, it’s because of you and it’s because of this program that I already know that I want to become an engineer when I’m older.
The only way to succeed is together
Pipeline of talented scientists and engineers for tomorrow
When I was in grade six, I saw LEGO moving across the table. I was blown away. I saw toys that I was playing with at home coming alive, and I was always wondering, how? Why?
Robotics has taught me this completely different perspective where instead of individuals having to build themselves up in a community it’s more of individuals coming together to form groups and those groups work together to build up the community as a whole. It’s not just about one or two people succeeding, it’s about everybody succeeding together. Whether that be a school community, whether that be a geographical area, whether that be literally the entire world, the only way that we can truly succeed is with each other. It’s all about working together to achieve the best goal and result that we have possible.
This is kind of a sport for the brain and it teaches you things that you really can’t get anywhere else. Different skills, different ways to approach things, unique ways of thinking. Robotics truly takes what you learned in the classroom and puts a real-life example behind it. It lets kids know where they’re going to be applying the concepts that they’re learning before they have to go out and find an avenue to connect the two by themselves. It makes school a lot less confusing and far more relatable, because you get to learn concepts and approach concepts that adults are doing. That’s really cool.
When I joined team 4039 Makeshift FIRST Robotics at St. Mary’s I found out that I love strategy and I love presenting, two things that I had no idea about before joining. Where the avenues take me, could go either strictly in the form of engineering or could side track into a different field of STEM. The lessons I’ve learned with teamwork and collaboration and building people up with you, those are what are going to stick with me.
I’m graduating this year and moving on to pursue engineering at the University of Windsor. When I first joined the team in grade six, I told my head mentor, who is still my head mentor today, it’s because of you and it’s because of this program that I already know that I want to become an engineer when I’m older.
Jonathan Bednarski
Jonathan Bednarski Student, Team 4039, Makeshift Robotics St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School
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