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T individual hero-a rugged self-starter who meets challenges and overcomes adversity. Sports, for example, are more often defined by individual superstars than by the quality of teamwork. Academic excellence is more often personified by the valedictorian than by academic teamwork. College educators usually ignore the power of academic teams. They should think about the example of David Kroetsch and Pawel Lukaszynski of Resurrection Catholic Secondary School in Kitchener, Ontario. These high schoolers decided to combine their talents to build a robot for the 1997 Intemational Aerial Robotics Competition. The robot had to take off from a small area, fly over a field, recognize objects lying in it, pick some of them up, and return