I do this because there's nothing like taking a pile of metal, some sheets of plastic, and some wires, and transforming it into a robot, made with your blood, sweat, and tears. There's nothing like that 11 pm meeting the night before regionals (for you FRC'rs, the equivalent to ship date), rebuilding the robot again. There is nothing like going nuts over winning a match 11-10 against the second place team when you're currently ranked 49th in the 50 team division. There's nothing like seeing your team name up on the board in the running for the Inspire award (Chairman's award analog) and thinking: "no way, no way, it can't happen, there's no way, we're just a rookie team, our robot didn't move for 2 matches... OMG WE'RE GOING TO ATLANTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
" And there's nothing like being in the middle of a massive crowd in the Georgiadome, doing the slow wave while watching a bunch of massive metal contraptions generally being awesome and knowing...it was worth all the late nights, the hard work, and all the madness....because THIS IS FIRST.