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Originally Posted by Moros
Personally, FIRST gave me a purpose beyond videogames and homework. It has taught and is teaching me about how to work as a team member. Most of all, The feeling I get from being part of a worldwide phenomenon that inspires teens to greater heights is truly exhilarating.
As a school, FIRST is awesome. Our FRC team is senior to our fledgling football team, we have our own rally at the end of build season, and we are treated as a varsity sports team by the school (no P.E. credits, unfortunately). We even received varsity letters last year.
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Even as a second-year team? Mad props. We work every day to gain more recognition in our school. We go to a school for government and international policy, so we compete for exposure against debate team and Model UN over football and basketball.
Since I took the time to branch a little off-topic, I'll get back on with a quote from my blog:
"There comes a time in everyone’s life when an unstoppable dream meets an immovable memory. I’ve never wanted to finish at the top of my class and go to Princeton. I’ve never wanted to star in a movie, or play in the NFL. I never used to want anything. Now, the whole team knows what they want: they want to put the best possible robot they can piece together in six weeks on the field. They want to stay six days a week, nights and weekends, after school, in the middle of huge assignments and brutal exams, in the rain, the cold, and the thought of snow (it’s central Virginia, after all), even when the intimidation of the skeletons in our closet and the shadows of the teams that stand before us try to scare us away from some friendly Cooperitition."
I used to wander life making immature, snide remarks at everyone who I thought was lesser than me. turns out, I was the lesser person. I needed to work hard to get something that i wanted for a change. I needed to be a part of something unlike anything most people have ever done. When people my senior turned me on to robotics, no one has been able to find my off switch. I'm there every day, and on the very rare occasions I'm absent, I call in, text, email, send pictures of ideas. I can't get it out of my head, and I don't want it to leave.