Robotics Competition

Just yesterday on 7/07/19, I had a robotics competition. The VEX IQ Challenge. We had tons of fun and achieved a great result. I understand that this competition is a live competition that runs throughout the entire globe and is strong in China and America, so if I make it that far, I’ll hope to compete with those other countries. Aside from that, today I want to cover two things, the spirit of competition and attitude. I’ll be using my robotics competition as an example for both points.

Firstly, the spirit of competition. What I mean by this is the way you participate to try and win. In other words good sportsmanship. Why do people need to display good sportsmanship to win competitions? People need to display good sportsmanship because it shows  maturity and respect, and ensures that winning a competition was only because of their own ability.

An example of this during my robotics day was the determination and support my team showed when participating. During our matches we would give our good lucks to the opposition and shake hands after each match. Our team consisted of only two people as currently it’s school holidays and many students have gone overseas for holiday or to visit family. We adopted a equal mindset where it didn’t matter if we won or not but if we relied on only our best ability and equal play, the outcome would show how much work we put in. In the end we did come first place.

Concluding this point, sportsmanship and a good heart is key to becoming successful not only in school or national competition, but in life and other situations as well. If you lose, put in more work, if you win be modest and keep pushing harder to keep the positions and foster the development even further. This shows why sportsmanship is so important.

My second point is about attitude. Mainly asking and answering in my understanding, one question my mum and I were discussing about on the way back from the robotics competition. Does your attitude decide your ability or your ability decide your attitude?

I believe that your attitude decides your ability because no matter how talented you are, someone who believes in themselves and has a stronger will to win will always achieve a more satisfying result.

Going back to the robotics competition for an example, me and Daniel (other partner) were not over confident that we were going to win (though the other robots were quite bad and inferior to our beastly, complex design), but we both believed that if we tried our best and had a good attitude and showed good sportsmanship, results would be more acceptable and satisfying for us and comforting for the rest of the team. Giving more examples, if your team heard that you lost the competition with the best robot in the world, they would be disappointed. But, if they heard that even with a small, crappy robot you have it your best and still didn’t win, they know that it’s not the team’s mentality or attitude that needs improving, its that small, crappy robot they were using!

Those were some examples for two very important lessons I pulled out from the robotics competition. I hope you can learn something as well. Here is the photos of my school ACG (AGC) at the competition.

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就在昨天的7月7日，我参加了机器人比赛。  VEX IQ挑战赛。 我们有很多乐趣并取得了很好的成绩。 我知道这场比赛是一场贯穿全球的现场比赛，在中国和美国都很强大，所以如果我做到这一点，我希望能与其他国家竞争。 除此之外，今天我想要涵盖两个方面，即竞争精神和态度。 我将使用我的机器人竞赛作为两个点的例子。

首先是竞争精神。 我的意思是你参与尝试和获胜的方式。 换句话说，良好的体育精神。 为什么人们需要表现出良好的体育精神才能赢得比赛？ 人们需要表现出良好的体育精神，因为它表现出成熟和尊重，并确保赢得比赛只是因为他们自己的能力。

我的机器人日期间的一个例子是我的团队在参与时表现出的决心和支持。 在我们的比赛中，我们会给对手好运，并在每场比赛后握手。 我们的团队目前只有两个人在学校放假，许多学生去海外度假或探亲。 我们采取了平等的心态，如果我们赢了就没关系，但如果我们只依靠我们最好的能力和平等的比赛，结果会显示我们投入了多少工作。最后我们确实排在第一位。

总结这一点，体育精神和良好的心灵不仅是在学校或国家比赛中成功的关键，也是在生活和其他情况下取得成功的关键。 如果你输了，投入更多的工作，如果你赢得谦虚并继续努力保持位置并进一步促进发展。 这说明了为什么体育精神如此重要。

我的第二点是关于态度。 主要是在我的理解中询问和回答，我的妈妈和我在机器人竞赛的回路上讨论的一个问题。 您的态度是否决定了您的能力或能力决定您的态度？

我相信你的态度会决定你的能力，因为无论你多么有才华，相信自己并有更强烈的胜利意志的人总能取得更令人满意的结果。

回到机器人竞赛的一个例子，我和丹尼尔（其他合作伙伴）并没有完全相信我们会赢（虽然其他机器人非常糟糕，不如我们的野兽，复杂的设计），但我们都相信 如果我们尽力而为，并且表现出良好的态度并表现出良好的体育精神，那么结果对我们来说将更加可以接受和满足，并为团队的其他成员带来安慰。 举个更多的例子，如果你的团队听说你输掉了世界上最好的机器人的竞争对手，他们会很失望。 但是，如果他们听说即使是一个小而蹩脚的机器人你也是最好的并且仍然没有获胜，他们知道这不是团队的心态或态度需要改进，而是他们正在使用的小型，蹩脚的机器人！

这些是我从机器人竞赛中抽出的两个非常重要的课程的一些例子。 我希望你也能学到一些东西。 这是我校ACG（AGC）在比赛中的照片。