This is my last year in FIRST as a student after 6 years in the program and it has been possibly the best.
I joined my team in its second year and, looking back, I am so proud at what my small team has accomplished with the help of our wonderful mentors, parents, and sponsors.
My list for 2011:
- Seeing the sophomores on the team take on roles like writing notebooks and award submissions. They seem to get it!
- Speaking with so many engineers, scientists, business people, etc. about FIRST and learning more about what inspired them.
- Having fun with #435 the Robodogs and #449 the Blair Robotics Project at the NC Regional.
- Meeting Woodie Flowers and talking to him for a bit. It really helped me choose my college and I now have my shoe signed!
- Mentoring rookie FRC teams. It was awesome to see how helping others positively impacted the attitude on my team. Mentoring brought us closer together.
- Winning Chairman's. I never thought that my 4 year old, 15 member team would stand a chance.
Being able to compete with other teams at that level was an honor.
- Waiting for Chairman's and hearing Thunder Down Under's presentation group sing "Waltzing Matilda".
- Speaking with members of #842 and #341 about their path to CCA. Thank you guys for sharing!
- FLL kids. They are awesome. Touring the FLL pits with Gary the Platypus was the highlight of my Friday.
- Being able to hang out with my team. I've known some of them since FLL (in the case of my sister 16 years) and it is truly fun to experience the year with them. I'll miss my team so much.
So many more...